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Virtual Box - not filling entire screen
I am new to VirtualBox and am trying to set up an instance of Windows 7 64.
I have the virtual machine instance running with Windows 7 now installed, but it only fills up a small portion of my screen....
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How to convert .img to usable VirtualBox format
I have a .img file for Windows 10, and I need to turn it into something which I can use in VirtualBox, such as an ISO, or turning it into a bootable virtual disk for an ICT project.
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Using virtual box is it possible to set your virtual machine time to be different from host time
Using virtual box is it possible to set your virtual machine time to be different from host time. Say 1 year into the past.
If I wanted to run the windows XP images provided by Microsoft from here.
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Virtualbox Windows graceful shutdown of guests on host shutdown
I am trying to find a solution to gracefully shutdown any guest VMs running under VirtualBox Windows when the host computer is shut down or restarted.
It seems that the safest option would be to ...
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Where is VirtualBox's virtual hard disks repository?
A colleague shared a VirtualBox VM with me. When double clicking the VDI file, VirtualBox opens but I get a few errors (the errors were related to incorrect paths and UUIDs in the VBOX file). So I had ...
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Can I use one virtualbox disk for multiple machines?
I'm not sure what search term to use and skimming through the VirtualBox manual didn't help me either, so I ask my two questions here...
My setup is this: PC with dual boot into Windows 7 and a Debian ...
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Make a clone of VirtualBox Machine that doesn't cause Windows Re-Activation after installing Windows
Most guides for installing Windows on VirtualBox to act as a template for quick Windows jobs tell you to take a few steps to prepare the Virtual Machine before installing Windows (the best guide I ...
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How to (legally) get Windows virtual machine on linux via VirtualBox without buying Windows
My goal is to install Windows 7 on a virtual machine running on Ubuntu. The Lenovo machine came with Windows 7 installed, but did not come with a boot disk.
What are my options? Should I ask Lenovo ...
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How to open .VHDX files in virtualbox?
I used disk2vhd by microsoft so I tried to create a new virtualbox using it and I got this error
Failed to open the hard disk C:\Users\user\Documents\Virtual Box Images\win7vir.VHDX
Could not open ...
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How to recover Virtual Machines in Virtualbox?
For some reason, all of a sudden, all virtual machines are gone from the User Interface in virtual box. I suspect CCleaner has something to do with it, but that's not the point. Both the virtual ...
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Windows Virtual Machines will not run
I'm trying to setup a few virtual machines to use for testing websites in the various old versions of IE.
I had Microsoft Virtual PC working on an older machine using XP mode and 2 other VHD's from ...
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64-bit Windows guest in VirtualBox impossible without VT-x support? [duplicate]
I have successfully installed Windows Vista 32-bit in a VM with VirtualBox. Now I'm trying to do the same with Windows Vista 64-bit and it just isn't working. I have created the VM but it seems that ...
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How to access my local server on my VirtualBox virtual machine?
Here's my setup:
I have a local server running on my machine (Mac OS, Snow Leopard). I can access it via my browser by doing
localhost:3000
I have a virtual machine using Virtual Box running a ...
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VM running CentOS, can ping but can't access web server
I've been trying to set up a CentOS server for the first time (ever setting up a Linux server). The installation went fine, I installed LAMPP (and the required dependencies for x86), used the lampp ...
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How can I detect if I'm within a vm or not?
Time and again I've seen security programs where the description says "Please don't try to run this inside a VM, as the program will not be able to be started" or "The security program will say that ...
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