Oracle VM VirtualBox is a desktop vitualisation product for x86, AMD64 and Intel64 processor architectures.
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VirtualBox VM as DHCP server for physical network [closed]
I'd like to setup a small network of linux machines for use in cluster computing (if it matters, running #!, a debian-flavored distro). Here's essentially what I'm after:
The head node runs within ...
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How to configure network for Windows server running in Virtualbox
I have dedicated server (OVH) running Debian 6.0. As it is pretty powerful machine and it's not fully utilized, I want to try and run Windows server on it using Virtualbox. I've already installed ...
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frequently running KVM remote VMs locally - virtualization software [closed]
I have a Linux server which runs KVM. I connect to the headless VMs over rdp and vnc. Frequently I want to download the VMs and run them locally on my computer and again re-upload them later ...
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No HTTP connectivity in vbox guests with bridged network
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 Server x86. Network connectivity is on eth2 for the host server (the 10ge card). I installed VirtualBox 4.2 using the downloadable deb package from VirtualBox's website. ...
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Localtunnel won't work through virtualbox [closed]
I've also asked this question on StackOverflow
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 in a virtual machine (Virtualbox, to be specific) on a Windows 7 host. I'm trying to set up a localtunnel (using ...
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Installing virtualbox on linode
I've followed the VirtualBox installation guide found here and have switched my Linode kernel to use 2.6.32-47-generic-pae using this guide, but I still keep getting the following error when I run ...
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Mount an external SATA disk on a Virtualbox Guest [migrated]
I have an external EXT3-formatted hard disk attached via SATA to a Windows machine running a Linux Virtualbox guest.
I'd like to mount the disk in the Linux environment, but can't figure out how to ...
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Can't SSH to headless VirtualBox linux guest from gui-less linux host
I find it impossible to connect to VirtualBox 4.2 guest (CentOS 6) from my Fedora 17 host.
Both host and guest don't run GUI. I access host via SSH (from another computer). Guest is started in ...
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Install postgresql 9.2 on debian wheezy (on virtualbox) [migrated]
I have virtualbox with Debian Wheezy. I'm trying to install Postgresql 9.2 on it. When I trying do it by this instruction i have next:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading ...
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Setting up an apache site on an Ubuntu server installed in virtualbox [closed]
I have computer, Windows 7 is installed on it. I am developing some PHP projects with apache servers and I have installed virtualbox to have a virtual computer. To upgrade the virtual computer, I have ...
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Quickest way to merge snapshots in VirtualBox
I have vdi with quite a number of snapshots taken from it - say, 50 or 70 snapshots.
I want to have one plain vdi with a current state. These snapshots take way too much disk space and are not needed ...
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Unable to connect to Internet in OEL5 guest even though I can ping machine from host machine
I have Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 as Guest on VirtualBox running on Windows 7 host using Bridged Network.
I have being trying to configure a static IP on OEL5 VM Guest at work, as previously the VMs ...
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Create Virtual Disk from existing hard drive
I have about 20 years of old hard drives from my company. How can I (easily?) create a virtual disk from each of them that can then be opened in VirtualBox?
I'd like to copy the images to virtual ...
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Used vgextend/lvextend to add addtional 8GB space but it is not reflected in df output
I have created an instance of ubuntu VM in VirtualBox. At the beginning I have only allocated 7GB for the storage and the VM has now run out of space.
First I added another 8GB (/dev/sdb) to the VM ...
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Setting up CentOS/RHEL virtual on VirtualBox
I have a physical server running Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.5 (Tikanga). I would like to create a virtual machine (using VirtualBox) with a binary-compatible version of CentOS server as ...
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vagrant synced_folders and VBoxInternal2/SharedFoldersEnableSymlinksCreate
ok here's the deal
I'm running vagrant(ubunttu 12.10) on top of windows 8 but everytime I try to create a virtualenv (python) from within my non nfs shared folder I get a 'Protocol error', turns out ...
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How to access multiple IP-s of host from virtualbox guest windows
I have a linux host with virtualhosts on 127.0.0.1 and 127.0.0.2 and 127.0.0.3 (the reason is that I need multiple domains with https) and I would like to access them from virtualbox in a windows ...
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phpvirtualbox not starting after upgrade to salckware64-14.0
I upgrades slackware64 to v14.0 and I now phpvirtualbox does not present the login screen.
I had to re-enable php support in httpd.conf & to recompile the vbox kernel modules.
However, ...
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How to release and renew DHCP address in a Vagrant guest OS? [closed]
Lately, I've been using Ubuntu as a headless Vagrant guest operating system for development on my laptop. When I move the laptop to a new network, the guest OS appears to lose its ability to ...
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How to SSH apache user from a remote guest server on VirtualBox with host-only network?
I have two CentOS virtual machines on VirtualBox . one of them let's say CentOS-1 holds my Web application code . second is CentOS2 .
I have two network connections between these two servers : ...
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Super lightweight headless Linux virtual machine on Windows? [closed]
I'm developing a cloud application and need to test the clustering capability. I'd really like a fast and easy way to spin up several headless Linux virtual machines on my Windows laptop. Each VM ...
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how to stop eth0 bridged connection via eth1 host only connection in a virtual machines?
I have to simulate unplugged network cable for testing issue to all applications we are developing in my company .
I have about 6 virtual machines Cent-OS on a virtual box .
from a php web page , I ...
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How to share a folder between a mac host and Ubuntu guest on Virtual Box [closed]
Virtual box is truly painful will trying to share a folder.
1) have the the Ubuntu 12.04 guest powered off
2) In mac host I share a folder called
/Users/ubuntu/Documents
3) I power the quest up ...
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Virtualbox: How to connect to the display when launched via vagrant?
I've used vagrant to set up ubuntu 12.10. How can I actually connect to the graphical desktop? There doesn't seem to be a way in the Virtualbox manager. It shows a preview but the 'show' icon is ...
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Openvswitch configuration with Ubuntu VM
I have a Windows 7 PC as host.The network details of my Windows PC are as follows.
IP ADDRESS - 192.168.1.70
DEFAULT GATEWAY - 192.168.1.254
I have installed Virtual Box ...
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Full-featured web server (cPanel, Softaculous) running under VMware for multiple projects? [closed]
I love working on WordPress installations locally, mainly because of the speed. No lag, no overworked web hosts. Super-snappy, instant response.
I found quite a few ready-to-use solutions in the ...
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Vagrant: Slow internet connection in guest
I'm trying to set up a vagrant. Host is Ubuntu 12.10. Here's my vagrant file:
Vagrant::Config.run do |config|
config.vm.share_folder("v-root", "/vagrant", ".", :nfs => true)
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converting a Virtualbox to Xenserver
How can I use my virtualbox image in a Xenserver 6 or above? I mean is there a way to import the image to Xenserver? Secondly is there anyway we can import vmware image to Xenserver without using ...
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Virtualbox: Port forwarding to an IP other than the hosts fails
I've got an Ubuntu server image running within virtualbox using NAT.
I've started LXC containers within that ubuntu server image and configured bridged networking so they all have an IP on the same ...
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keepalived config is not working correctly with virtualbox vms
my keepalived configuration is not working correctly.
I have two virtual testing machines (virtualbox) to try some things out with keepalived/vrrp. Bot can ping each other flawlessly (internal ...
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ubuntu apt-get problems [closed]
I am using Ubuntu 12.10 64Bit. Recently I noticed I have some IO problems and I tracked it down to apt-get deamon (via ps and vmstat). I am trying to figure out the problem, yet I don't know where to ...
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Issue installing kernel-devel on CentOS
So I am trying to install Guest Additions in my VirtualBox Vm which is running CentOS.
I am getting this error though:
The headers for the current running kernel were not found. If the following
...
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Can I bridge between two different networks?
I have a VirtualBox VM which has:
eth0: 10.0.2.15/24
default-gateway: 10.0.2.2/24
Within that VM I have 2 LXC containers (i.e. two other virtual machines)
VM1 - eth0: 10.50.50.50/16 (connects to ...
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Sniffing guest traffic from host with NAT [closed]
I have a Windows XP machine under VirtualBox on which I want to snoop traffic. On the Linux host, I have recompiled Privoxy to allow for full text logging and configured it to prevent gzip ...
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1answer
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VirtualBox bridged adapter can ping but can't curl
There is a delicate server running Ubuntu Server 12.04.2. There are 4 useable IPs for this server: A, B, C, D. The server itself takes A.
The server is now running two VirtualBox guests, both with ...
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Why do I have to restart samba to get write access? [closed]
I'm running Ubuntu on VM VirtualBox and it works great except for one thing.
I'm not given write access when working with files from windows.
In order to get that, I have to do a sudo service smbd ...
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Virtualbox hostonly networking and masquerading - martian source in logs for connections from VM to host
The setup consists of several Virtualbox VMs in hostonly mode each with its own interface.
e.g. vm0 interface: vboxnet0 ip: 10.60.1.100
vm1 interface vboxnet1 ip: 10.60.2.100
The Virtual ...
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VirtualBox ubuntu guest can ping out and access other IPs on bridged network but cannot be pinged or remotely accessed
Aim: To be able to access RStudio Server page from other internal PCs (all
windows)
I barely know linux and everything I've done so far has been due to walkthroughs and the helpful responses to ...
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1answer
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VirtualBox Shared Folder FS issues [closed]
So I have a Ubuntu 12.04, 64bit guest installed in a virtualbox VM. With a folder shared using vboxsf and mounted on the guest system. The guest has the VBox Guest Additions installed, and the folder ...
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Unable to ping VirtualBox guest with Bridged Networking
I'm running VirtualBox 4.2 on Windows Server 2003 and I am trying to ping the IP address of the guest virtual machine from the Windows host (ICMP is not being blocked).
The guest is 192.168.0.1 and ...
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Virtualbox: Bridging Guest VPN within a Bridged Connection
I've been trying to figure this out for a few days. Perhaps the biggest problem with figuring out the answer is that there are no unique keywords that I can think of to explain the issue.
I have ...
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1answer
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VirtualBox on Win 7 Bridge Connection [closed]
I run a Win 7 host system with VirtualBox 4.2.10 installed. On VB, there is a CentOS 6.3 with an Apache. Now, from my VirtualBox I want to access the internet to use yum, wget aso. and from my host I ...
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Nested virtualization(VirtualBox, HyperV) - crashing during Win 7 32-bit install
We have a co-located HyperV server that hosts several Windows Server 64-bit 2008 R2 guests. One of these guests is our Continuous Integration (CI) build server.
I have a legacy piece of software ...
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Using iptables on the host for Virtualbox instances
I have a server running several Virtualbox instances let's call them v1 to vn
How can I configure these instances in such a way that I can selectively filter traffic for them:
e.g
v1 can access ...
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1answer
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Access to MySQL server via VirtualBox
I am trying to get MySQL server (which is inside VM) to respond to client (which is on the host machine). All methods return same:
Host '10.0.2.2' is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server
I ...
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What is the best Linux version to run on virtual box? [closed]
I just started learning Linux administration and i need to practice lessons i learnt on a Linux machine. I have a Windows PC and therefore i thought of running Linux on Virtual Box. Anyone who has ...
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Bridge networking static IP's to virtualbox VM's
Ok, so I have a dedicated server with the static primary IP address 89.200.xx.xx, it's running 3 VM's in virtualbox (all Centos 6 as is the server) and I have 3 other IP's that I want to assign to the ...
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Promiscuous & Wifi with virtual box
At the beginning, a problem with virtual box. I'm running vb on a Windows 8 x64 pro pc with only a wifi connection to my router. I create a new virtual machine configured in bridged mode for ...
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What does access from VirtualBox to the host depend on? [closed]
I (unfortunately) have a Windows XP instance running in VirtualBox on my Mac, which is running a dev server (Node.js connect).
I'm successfully able to access the dev server from the VM's browser ...
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How do I change ownership/permissions of a mounted virtualbox shared folder in Debian?
I'm trying to mount a shared folder and use it as the mysql datadir.
Having succesfully mounted and setup my datadir config, mysqld fails because it lacks the appropriate permissions
I have it ...
