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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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Ubuntu - VirtualBox instllation issues [closed]

I'm new to linux. I'm trying to install VirtualBox in my Ubuntu 12.04 but while installing from terminal the installation stopped with the below error. http://pastebin.com/6d3Ux9qG So I tried to ...
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How to allow clients from virtual network connect to ubuntu web-server hosted on VirtualBox?

I have a web-app running on VirtualBox Ubuntu VM. And also I have a virtual network with users which I want to let use this web-app. Software for virtual network called 'Remobo'. In VM network ...
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Port forwarding to expose home web server [closed]

I would like to setup a personal home server, I bought a mac mini and I installed Ubuntu server on a Virtualbox machine using bridge adapter. All is fine, I can type the ip of the VM in any browser of ...
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Installing Ubuntu Server on a Virtual Box

If I install Ubuntu Server Version on a Oracle Virtual Box in Windows XP will I be able to access the ubuntu server from outside the windows xp using a SSH tool like putty and Win-Scp.
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My client's solution of a Windows SBS 2011 VM on an Ubuntu host and VirtualBox is pinning the host CPU

Here's my situation, I've got a client hosting two servers (one VM), with the host providing VMware Zimbra, the other Windows Small Business Server 2011. Unfortunately, the person before me had ...
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How to get virtual box performance details?

I have Virtualbox in which I installed Ubuntu server 12.4. Now I am doing load testing on this virtual machine by sending number of requests. Now I want to get performance details of that virtual ...
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VirtualBox guest responds to ping but all ports closed in nmap

I want to setup a test database on a vm for development purposes but I cannot connect to the server via the network. I've got Ubuntu 12.04vm installed on 12.04 host in Virtualbox 4.2.4 set to - ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 64bit host reboots when trying to install any guest system using VirtualBox [closed]

I am having a really nasty problem with VirtualBox as everytime I try to install any guest OS(using ISO file as CD for installation media), the installation starts normally but as soon as it is about ...
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Set up Ubuntu in Virtualbox to have static ip [closed]

I frequently work in different locations, and need to have a virtualbox version of Ubuntu server running locally. While I was at home getting it set up, I was able to ssh into the server using the ...
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Static network interface settings in Ubuntu [closed]

I am following the guide here to configure a fresh Ubuntu 12.04 server installation (running in VirtualBox) with a static IP address. The recommended configuration in /etc/network/interfaces is: auto ...
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Create a Rawdisk from LV with partitions

For emergency in my old machine (CentOS with Xen server) i made clone my LVs with dd example: dd if=/dev/vg/lv0 of=/backups/vg_lv0.dd now in my new machine i've created a LV with the same size ...
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How to setup a simple Ubuntu Server Tomcat cluster on VirtualBox for testing? [closed]

I am looking for the step by step instructions to setup at least two simple Ubuntu Virtual Core 12.10 Server VMs on Oracle VirtualBox under Windows 7 64bit. The test setup would be: Apache HTTP ...
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ovs-vsctl: “eth0” is not a valid UUID

I'm trying to setup an open v-switch inside my Ubuntu 12.04 Server VM. I have created three interfaces for this VM and I want to create a port mirror inside of the VM using these there interfaces and ...
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Ubuntu in VirtualBox File Modified Time in Future and PHP slow file operations

For some reason, some of my files have a last modified date in the future. In addition to this, file operations in PHP are SUPER slow. For example, rebuilding the Symfony2 cache can take over 40 ...
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How to install Ubuntu Server 12.04 in a Virtualbox VM with UEFI boot enabled

I have a server which I'd like to install Ubuntu 12.04 on, but I've had some problems and thought it would be nice to get things working in a Virtualbox VM with the same features as the server. I ...
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Access server running in VirtualBox [closed]

I use Windows 7 but I run Linux Ubuntu in a VirtualBox. I have installed a LAMP server on Ubuntu but I am not sure how to access it. Right now I have my router set up to Port forward to my IP but ...
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Ubuntu guest on VirtualBox, add host-only adapter and lose internet connectivity [closed]

I've got an Ubuntu guest VM in virtualbox. When I add a second network adapter that is host-only, I lose internet connectivity. All internt traffic gets sent through the second interface, instead of ...
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Cannot open a xterm window from virtualbox to windows with xming [closed]

My native operating system is windows 7. I have ubuntu 12.04 running in virtualbox. I have installed xming on windows (xming is X11 server on windows). What I would like to do is to open a xterm ...
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How to speed up the Kubuntu installed on virtualbox running on Windows 7?

I've Windows 32 bit OS with 4GB RAM and installed Linux Kubuntu on virtualbox on it. The entire memory has been split up between the two. Both Windows and Linux running on 2GB RAM simultaneously which ...
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Ubuntu server nginx forbidden issue

I cannot resolve this problem for days. I've installed nginx on the latest ubuntu server on virtualbox. I have a shared virtualbox folder which contains the web root. The owner of web root is root ...
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Is it safe to change the time on hosting VM server?

So, I noticed there's about a 10 minute drift on my VM hosting server from what time it's supposed to be. In traditional environments, I would just restart the system (and change the BIOS time if ...
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My network manager stops running when VirtualBox-4.0 is installed

I fell into a snare when I downloaded and installed virtualbox 4.0 on my ubuntu 10.4. When I started virtualbox, I saw that the network icon on my desktop showed a red x showing I am disconnected. ...
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chmod not working on vbox shared folder

The folder /var/www was mounted during init, using: mount -t vboxsf cuckoo_shared /var/www/ -o uid=1000,gid=1000,rw,dmode=755 Now, all the files belong to my user jdrummond as default. And also have ...
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virtualbox bridged adaptor works only guest->host but not host->guest

I have virtualbox 4.1 on a ubuntu 12.04 host. On my host I have a virtual interface eth0:1 configurend as 10.0.1.1. I have a few virtual machines using bridged adapters, configured in the 10.0.1.0 net ...
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Windows XP (in VirtualBox) map alias to host server

I have a Ubuntu 12.04 system running VirtualBox. I installed Windows XP as a VM and it is working perfectly. I configured file sharing which works fine. I can also type the IP of my host machine into ...
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Vagrant/VirtualBox can't resolve some domains from w/in VM

Just trying out VirtualBox & Vagrant and my initial lucid64 VM can't resolve us.archive.ubuntu.com but can resolve security.ubuntu.com, google.com and www.apple.com (but not apple.com w/out the ...
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Steps to use juju to orchestrate a devStack fresh VM setup?

Using this devStack guide : Running a Cloud in a VM to test OpenStack. What would be the steps to get the correct juju configuration from a fresh devStack setup? EDIT : Found out the first ...
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ubuntu - You don't have permission to access / on this server

I installed ubuntu server 12.04 and used windows 7 folder as shared folder using guestadditions. I can see the folder as sf__projects, so i symlinked it to var/www/_projects But the issue is all ...
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Configure trickle to add guestOS

I want to configure Trickle to prioritize my bandwidth with an installed app on ubuntu, I understand the basic config: [ssh] Priority = 1 Time-Smoothing = 0.1 Length-Smoothing = 1 [www] Priority = 2 ...
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Ubuntu on VirtualBox with bridged network cannot access the gateway or internet

I have set up a version of Ubuntu 12.04 under VirtualBox (version 4.1.18) using NAT and everything works fine (using DHCP of course). I am running OS X Lion 10.7.4. However, as soon as I switch the ...
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Ubuntu installer over PXE doesn't see network adapters => can't download preseed

I'm booting one virtualbox VM from another virtualbox VM (with cobbler) over PXE. Both machines have 2 adapters: 1) external network and 2) host-only network. The "client" VM successfully boots into ...
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Mount shared folder (vbox) as another user

I'm trying to mount my vbox shared folder every time my ubuntu starts. So, I added an entry on /etc/init with this: description "mount vboxsf Desktop" start on startup task exec mount -t ...
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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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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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403 Forbidden serving static files from VirtualBox shared folder with nginx (Ubuntu 10.04LTS guest, Windows 7 host)

I'm working on a local development VM and trying to test serving my site with gunicorn and nginx as a reverse proxy for static resources only. The site loads minus static resources with user nginx; ...
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Ping host computer from installed Ubuntu on virtual box

I have installed Ubuntu 11.10 on Virtualbox 4.1.8. My own OS is Windows7 x64. I need having a connection between these operation systems, but there are many choices. NAT, bridge, Host-Only, etc. I ...
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After installing something, command not found

Whenever I follow a step by step guide, I have this problem: $ sudo apt-get install something $ sudo something No 'something' command found Something is installed, and I can find it with 'locate' ...
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How to share Internet connection with Ubuntu Virtual Machine?

I have Windows Server 2008 R2 as host and Installed Ubuntu 11.04 as Virtual Machine using Virtual Box. My proxy is configured using URL. I tried configuring in the networking settings and also with ...
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disk size on ubuntu in virtual box

I have installed ubuntu 11.10 on virtual box 4+ and allocated 8 GB for a dynamically allocated hard disk. At a very early stage when using that machine I got a notification that there is no space ...
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How to get global ip for virtualbox guest os

I'm trying to setup ubuntu server in virtualbox. Host is Windows 7 x64 Guest is Ubuntu 11.10 x64 All I want to do is, to make this server accessible from internet. How can I do it? Please help.
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Ubuntu: Network driver reset to eth0?

I've been trying to get my Ubuntu Server VM running through VirtualBox. I ended up trying several network interfaces because of some networking issues and finally got it working. However, I noticed ...
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3 NICS on Virtual Box Running Smoothwall & /etc/network/interfaces configuration

I have a question about configuring my '/etc/network/interfaces' The setup would be just like this with one caveat. The “smoothwall machine” would be in a VirtualBox of smooth wall running on a ...
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How to setup VirtualBox with static IP?

Host OS has one nic with 4 static IP address x.x.x.250-x.x.x.254 I have installed Ubuntu as a Guest OS with bridged networking. I would like it to have static ip x.x.x.255 As I mentioned earlier, ...

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