Oracle VM VirtualBox is a desktop virtualisation product for x86, AMD64 and Intel64 processor architectures. The VirtualBox host software runs on Windows, Linux, Apple Macintosh and OpenSolaris hosts. The host software supports a wide variety of guest operating systems.
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virtualbox on linux nat configuration
I am trying to set up Network Address Translation on Virtualbox. The host is Debian wheezy and so is the virtualized server.
On virtual server side, no configuration has been made;
On physical ...
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Creating a windows 8 virtualbox image doesn't work. VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED error occurs
I'm trying to create a Virtualbox image of windows 8 consumer preview. I tried this tutorial: http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/how-to-install-windows-8-on-virtualbox/
I did exactly what was ...
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Can I virtualize multiple hosts into one virtual system?
I have 5 computer systems in our small office. From my basic understanding of Virtualization technology, I think I can virtualize the 5 systems into one big virtual system. I wish to confirm this.
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Virtualbox control panel [closed]
I am looking for a control panel to run on CentOS to control virtualbox over the web. It needs to limit users accounts to only access certain VMs, and the users can only perform certain tasks on the ...
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Proper way to expose VirtualBox' machine to network via “one MAC” security locked switch port
Say, we need to expose LXC container (LXC) or Virtualbox VM (VBM) to public network with its own IP-adress (within additionaly assigned network — ADD-net) which is to be routed through main host. When ...
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How can I create a Windows Server 2008 domain user that AD RMS will accept?
I am trying to get basic LDAP authentication running on Windows Server 2008 (for testing purposes, so running in VirtualBox on an Ubuntu 12.04 host). I am installing Active Directory Rights Management ...
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Connectivity among different Virtual Machines
I have a VirtualBox installed on my Host OS Ubunut 11.04. (64-bit)
I have 4 virtual machines installed all of them in turn Ubunutu 11.04 (64-bit)
I want all the 4 machines to be a part of the single ...
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Slow keyboard display on Ubuntu under various window managers
I think I'm seeing something on Ubuntu 11.04 where keyboard display/response seems to be slower for some apps under some window managers than others. Basically typing or keyboard motion seems slower ...
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Virtual Machines and rebooting the host machine
I'm using virtualbox on Windows Server 2008 R2.
How do you handle virtual machines when you have to restart the server?
How do you make the virtual machines save and close properly before the host ...
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Ubuntu host and guest on VirtualBox as OpenVPN server
I'm setting up test environment to setup OpenVPN server as VirtualBox VM. Guest and host is on Ubuntu 12.04. Guest has bridget network adapter.
OpenVPN is configured by official ubuntu wiki ...
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VirtualBox Shared Folder encoding issue
I'm using Ubuntu in Virtualbox and have a shared folder mounted to Virtualbox which i'm accessing inside Ubuntu.
The problem is, that when i'm editing and saving some files from shared folder in ...
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Route all traffic on specific domainname to a VirtualBox VM on Windows Server 2008
I've been struggling with some routing problem for a while now, and can't seem to get any way with it.
My setup:
Windows Server 2008
1 NIC w/ 2 IP addresses
VirtualBox VM, w/ Ubuntu Server (LAMP ...
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Virtual Box with Solaris 10 shared directory + mount
I installed on a virtual box ,solaris 10:
and did following steps:
1) logged in initially as root
2) created a user cris
useradd -m -k /etc/skel -P "Primary Administrator" -d /export/home/cris -s ...
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Virtualbox or VMware networking
Background
I have a lab setup in which the guest OS uses postfix as an MTA. Now my host is connected to a Terminal server which for now is on LAN (A lab). Guest has different servers which are needed ...
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Connecting two virtual networks in Virtualbox [closed]
After of hours of looking around I've thrown in the towel and I'm hoping someone can help.......Please!!
I'm just going through a mock exam paper as I have the actual test approaching, the scenario ...
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VirtualBox. How to script the start of the machine and installer run (windows)
I can see that I can start and stop a vm with virtualBox using VBoxManage. I m not sure this is the tool I need.
I m trying to write a script that
Will boot the VM (different flavours of Windows)
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Create a duplicate of my server
I have a VPS running Debian with Plesk which I use to host some of mine and client's websites.
I'd like to know what's the best way to create a backup of the server so if anything happens to the main ...
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Sharing network: windows host act as router for guests?
I want to pin my guest system to existing network - they must get ip from this same dhcp server like host and can communicate with host and other through this network. Can i do that and how?
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VirtualBox setup of Bodhi Linux
I have a .vdi file that has a setup of Bodhi Linux which I am trying to run with virtualbox. Everything goes fine and the system starts but stops at the grub screen, not loading the linux on the ...
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Ubuntu VirtualBox guest not showing wireless extensions in iwconfig [migrated]
I have Ubuntu 10.04 installed on my Mac using Oracle VirtualBox. My machine is connected to Wi-Fi and am able to browse the internet from within Ubuntu as well. However, iwconfig does not give an ...
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Windows Server 2003 on Virtualbox: Disk becomes unavailible after adding it as a cluster resource
I created a test cluster in Windows 2003 running on Virtual Box. The virtual disk to be used as a cluster resource has been changed to type shereable using VBoxManage command line utility. On that ...
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Install of VirtualBox 4.1.14 hangs on Windows XP host [migrated]
I'm trying to upgrade from VirtualBox 4.1.8 to 4.1.14 on a Windows XP host. The installation prompts a couple of times about installing network drivers ("Continue anyway") but then hangs. At this ...
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How to attach virtual disk on the fly? (virtual box)
I have this VM (ubuntu server 10.04 @ vbox 4.1.12) and I want to attach a virtual disk on it, but on the fly. I know that I can add more disks by powering off the machine and then attach them, but ...
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Convert VMware image to Virtualbox image (Guest OS Windows Server 2008)
I am trying to convert several VMware images towards Virtualbox images. I have succesfully been able to convert my Windows Server 2003 image, but I haven't been able to convert any Windows Server 2008 ...
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Broadcast packet routing on Windows 7 to VirtualBox VMs?
I have VirtualBox 4.1.14 on a Windows 7 machine, running a VM with Linux 2.6.26 installed. The network connection is bridged, and I am able to connect across the bridge in both directions, so it ...
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How to increase my `/` of Fedora installed on a virtual box?
I used virtualbox4 to create a box(8G disk) and installed a Fedora 16. Soon I found the space is not enough that I can't download anything in ~/download.
I use VBoxManage to increase the disk size to ...
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Virtual Box: Bridging to Virtual Interface (eth0:1)
I have four IP addresses on my Debian machine: 1 main (eth0) + 3 extra (eth0:0, eth0:1, eth0:2).
I want to assign the eth0:1 as bridged network to my VM. Who do I need to add in the ...
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running setfacl on a vagrant shared directory
Trying to get a symfony2 project up and running with a vagrant VM. I've seen a zillion articles on this, but getting the cache directory permissioned correctly is proving to be excruciatingly ...
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3D Acceleration/Compiz Failure [migrated]
I've installed Linux Mint 12 & Fedora 16 in VB 4.1.10 on a Windows 7 Host which has a Intel i3 processor and Intel HD 3000 graphics card.
For both Linux installations I've enabled 3D acceleration ...
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how to transfer files and folders from windows (host) to linux (virtual machine) [closed]
Please I wish to transfer files and folders from Windows (host) to Linux (virtual machine) using WinSCP.
Any ideas?
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Virtualbox Ubuntu 11.10 starts read and write hard drive like crazy after a while
I'm running a guest Ubuntu 11.10 on a host Ubuntu 11.10.
After I installed monit, nginx, mysql into the guest and restart it, the guest OS started to read and write hard drive like crazy. I get no ...
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Can't increase base memory on Virtualbox
I'm running Virtualbox to run my server on CentOS
The thing is I have memory available on my Xserver 16 GB
And the max I can up is only up to 4GB
I don't know why I can't give it more?
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VirtualBox: Centos 6 - I can't find an option to roll back my snapshots anymore?
I've been using Virtualbox for some years now and like the snapshot functionality. For some reason on my Centos workstation I can't find an option to roll back. I'm sure it was there but I don't know ...
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Virtualbox development network using FreeBSD
I want to setup virtual network with 3 guest OS(FreeBSD) for testing scalable webapp. The first one should be only MySQL master server. Second and Third will be slaves with read only MySQL's and ...
scalability
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CentOS 5 in VirtualBox 4.1 shows 0 as disk free space
I just installed a brand new centos 5.8 64bit on virtualbox 4.1.10 with guest additions installed
I gave it a dynamically allocated 8gb hard drive. It is currently using only 3.9gb of that.
However, ...
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Virtualbox crash is that mean my server got attack?
I'm kind of confused right now recently my friend who also take care of the server got an email from the DirectAdmin say that we got Brute-Attack with one of the IP from Italy, but I didn't get a ...
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How to obtain incoming ip address from virtualbox
I setup a http server (apache) under VB and forward the port from the host using the available tool in VB. My VB network is NAT connected with the host.
However when doing this the access log of http ...
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VirtualBox 4.1.12 Ubuntu Host Bridged Networking
Setup
Ubuntu Server 11.10 x64
VirtualBox 4.1.12
One network adapter eth0 with a static IP address
My /etc/network/interfaces looks like
#Local loopback
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
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Access to virtualbox apache server from external ip
I have installed ubuntu with apache http server on vbox.
I can access it from all local network computers (briged interface) but I can't access it from external ip. I have port 80 forwared to vbox ip ...
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How to connect to a VM created by VirtualBox?
I have created a Fedora VM using VirtualBox and also have set the networking adapter to bridge mode. Inside Fedora I've set the ip to be 192.168.1.14.
Now if I issue a ping from my Host machine (Win ...
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How to provision hardware for virtualbox? [closed]
In our organisation we are planning to get new machines for developers. The requirements are that the developers should be able to run upto 3 VirtualBox virtual machines in parallel. The usage pattern ...
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Assign arbitrary MAC address in VirtualBox VM
Is it possible to assign an arbitrary MAC address to an VirtualBox virtual machine instance? This answer suggests that it is only possible to generate MAC addresses where the most significant byte is ...
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Unable to connect to vrde virtualbox VM remotely
So I've remotely created my first headless using ssh. Now I'm attempting to connect to this VM using RDP so I can install Ubuntu Server, but I cannot get connected at all.
When starting the VM ...
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a script to create linux virtual machine and run a script there
I'd like to get a script working that would automate the following
create a virtual machine
install a linux distro
run a command inside the distro
shutdown and remove the virtual machine
To create ...
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Software Raid 10 on VirtualBox?
I want to learn how to use Software Raid 10, is it possible to use VirtualBox by adding four storage images?
This is my plan:
4x 100mb partitions (1 on each drive) configured as a raid 1 for ...
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can't find port 22 traffic under VirtualBox
I'm trying to learn to use tcpdump. I thought I'd eavesdrop on my ssh login. The setup is a bit unusual, I have OS X Lion running VirtualBox, with Ubuntu running in the VM. I have ssh enabled and ...
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Converting an EC2 AMI to vmdk image
I've come quite close to getting Amazon Linux to boot inside VirtualBox, thanks to this answer and these websites. A quick overview of the steps I've taken:
Launch EC2 instance with Amazon Linux ...
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FreeBSD Host ZFS on Root Running VirtualBox with Windows Server 2003 Guests Very Slow HD Speeds
Here is my setup: I am running a Dual Quad Core Xeon 2.0Ghz with 16GB of Ram and 2 x 2TB WD Green drives with FreeBSD 7 that has ZFS on root. The Hard Drives are in a ZFS Mirror. I am running ...
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How to make VirtualMachines under Ubuntu accessible to every user?
I have a WinXP virtual machine under Ubuntu and every user on this Ubuntu should have permission to run this VM. But every time someone runs this VM, the file permissions are set 400 and 600 ...
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VirtualBox COM session gotchas
I am temporarily using the Infrastructure VMTool from Gallio to do some automated functional testing within VirtualBox. I say temporarily, because I plan to either write something to directly use the ...
