Questions tagged [virtualbox]
Oracle VM VirtualBox is a desktop virtualization product for x86, AMD64 and Intel64 processor architectures.
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Virtualbox shared clipboard string size limit
Virtualbox shared clipboard doesn't work if I copy paste a large string from host to guest.
Through some trial and error I determined it seems to break when I go over 512 characters of string length.
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Restore a chained virtualbox .vdi from backup?
I have a windows guest vm in virtualbox on a linux host. The base vdi and all snapshots are located on a SSD for performance reasons. A snapshot is taken every night and a rsync backup is made to an ...
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Guest OS loses network connectivity after Host OS connects to VPN
System Configuration:
Virtual Box version: VirtualBox-6.1.6-137129-Win
Host OS: Windows 10
Guest OS: Oracle Linux 8.1 (Virtual Box Guest Additions not installed in it yet)
VPN Software running on ...
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Why can't virtualbox host network be same as host network?
I was remotely connecting to the Ubuntu PC(10.100.x.x) and this Host implemented a virtualbox vm(192.168.55.x).
When I change the vm's (host-only)network same as Host PC's.(10.100.x.x)
Then my remote ...
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Thunderbird failed to find the settings for your email account
I can't seem to overcome the "Thunderbird failed to find the settings for your email account" error. I'm using Virtualbox (ubuntu, virtual server, virtual workstation, localhost
Servername: ...
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libvirt: ERROR Host does not support any virtualization
That's when I run the command 'virt-install'
virt-install --connect=qemu:///system --name=mymachine --ram=4096 --vcpus=2 --check-cpu --os-type=ubuntu --vnc --accelerate --disk=/home/myuser/mymachine/...
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Login into a headless VirtualBox VM that has no internet [closed]
I need to start a VirtualBox machine in headless mode and login into it. However, this VM can not have internet so I can not make ssh to this machine. Is there a way to do this login from the command ...
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Block Virtualbox from accessing host's internet using iptables
I have a linux machine with its own firewall (iptables rules).
I just discovered that somehow Virtualbox is able to bypass my firewall, as the guest system is able to connect to the internet.
How ...
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LACP doesn't work on FreeBSD VM without promiscuous mode
I'm running two identical FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE VMs on VirtualBox. Each VM has 2 network interfaces, em0 and em1, set to Internal network mode. em0 interfaces are set to intnet0 network and em1 are to ...
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Client unable to get TCP communication with Server on a VM
Client is attempting to connect to a Server on a VM
VM is using a bridged adapter
Server CAN ping Client
Client CAN ping server
Wireshark shows a SYNC from Client to Server followed by 2 TCP ...
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Guest VM in Virtualbox connected to a vpn while the host machine is not? [closed]
Is it possible to have a guest VM in Virtualbox connected to a vpn while the host machine is not? If so, what specific network adapter configurations do I need to setup/add in the virtual box vm ...
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Running virtualbox vm inside openstack vm
I'm trying to run virtualbox vm (virtualbox 6.1.4, vm iso image is ubuntu 16.04) inside openstack instance for some tests ( openstack is ocata, and instance image is ubuntu 14.04), when i start vm in ...
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VirtualBox Ubuntu VM (Windows host) stops resolving names after connecting to VPN on host
I am running a Lubuntu guest VM on my Windows 10 host using VirtualBox (6.0.10r132072). Everything works fine network wise.
When I connect to my company VPN, in most cases the VM loses ability to ...
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ifconfig not showing wlan0
Not able to see wlan0 on executing the command ifconfig:
The output on executing the command ifconfig is
eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 10.0.2.15 ...
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Error during execution of Packet Sniffing command
Step1:
I have shifted my mode to Monitor and also checked by executing the following command in terminal
iwconfig
I got the result as
lo no wireless extensions.
ethos no wireless extensions.
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Run Server in Virtual Box with Client in Host OS - How to enable connection
[In network engineering stackexchange I was told to post this here, sorry if I'm offtopic again].
The problem I face is the following: I got a license file for a program and have to set up a license ...
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Access docker machine on LAN Computers
I had a virtual machine with Ubuntu which is installed inside windows 10 host and accessible to all pcs in LAN using its IP address. Inside Ubuntu I'm running the docker containers within docker-...
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Find/Allocate IP to new VM for ssh
I created a virtualbox vm with bridge connection. How do I find its IP address, or set its IP, so I can ssh into it and use it?
It has a mac address, can I use this at all to set a route through arp ?...
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Bridged Networking on VirtualBox through nested ESXI virtualization fails [closed]
I'm trying to get Bridged Networking to work on Ubuntu in VirtualBox, on a Windows Server 2016 host which is running as guest on an ESXI system (i.e. nested virtualization: ESXI -> Windows Server ...
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VirtualBox Ping strange behaviour
I installed 3 guest systems on my virtualbox. Windows 98, Windows XP and Windows Server 2012 R2. Host system is Fedora KDE Plasma.
All VMs are configured with a bridged network adapter and internet ...
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How to route network traffic between KVM and VirtualBox?
Is there a simple way to route network traffic between two VMs, one in virtualbox and the other in KVM/libvirt?
In the KVM World, I can see the virbr interfaces (Virtual Bridges?) and they have an IP ...
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VirtualBox: NAT port forwarding from Windows to Ubuntu does not work
I am not able set port forwarding Windows 10 host to Ubuntu 19 guest when using NAT.
I have added a rule for Ubuntu VM:
$ VBoxManage modifyvm "Ubuntu 19" --natpf1 ",tcp,,8081,,8081"
On Ubuntu I ...
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Deploying a virtual machine linux (Virtualbox + Ubuntu Server) on Windows server
I am an unconditional user of Linux (Ubuntu to be precise). As a developer, I always host my web applications on an Ubuntu server.
If a client has a Windows environment, then I use a virtual machine ...
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SOLVED - Kali linux openvas installation fail
I have Kali 2019.4 installed into a Virtualbox machine (4GB, 2-CPU) fully updated and upgraded.
I'm trying to install openvas directly from the Kali repository (apt install openvas) as root, but it ...
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/dev/sdb1 Device or resource busy
I am testing 2 node drbd cluster in virtualbox . I have attached a virtual disk (/dev/sdb/) and mounted it on /mnt/drbd0 directory. While creating a resource by drbdadm create command I am getting ...
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Virtual network between host and guest VM (without port forwarding)
I'd like to have a network between the VM host and the VM guest.
The bridge network works for this purpose - but the issue with this is, I'm assuming it'll be limited to the actual physical network's ...
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AWS AMIs always need SSHD Running? (VirtualBox upload / conversion)
I am an AWS EC2 NOOB, and not a Linux expert. I have finally succeeded in installing an Ubuntu Virtual Machine from VirtualBox onto AWS and have gotten it to launch and ssh connect.
However, I had ...
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Error running commands using shell although successfully run line by line manually
I'm using centos7 RHEL on vagrant virtualbox, I'm making a shell file that when I activate vagrant it runs the commands in the shell file on the virtual OS.
When I use SSH and run each line on ...
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Virtualbox performance on NUMA host (AMD Epyc)
At a small software development house, we virtualize our build servers (using VirtualBox) so that they can be easily backed up, snapshotted and the like. We've recently bought a new server using an ...
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Why does mongodb install require removal of VirtualBox and php-curl?
I was about to install mongodb on Linux Mint 19.1 (Tessa) via .deb file but when I checked the packages to be removed, I found this:
To install the following changes are required:
To be removed: ...
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Windows server 2016 Active Directory and VirtualBox host on same server
I know it's not considered best practice having Active Directory Domain Service role and Hyper-V role on same server.
What about VirtualBox?
Can I install VirtualBox on the same physical machine ...
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Why don't my VirtualBox guests auto-restart after boot?
I'm failing in setting my VirtualBox guests (e.g., vm1) to restart after a reboot.
I followed these advisories:
https://wdmbr.wordpress.com/2018/12/14/how-to-set-your-virtualbox-vm-to-...
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node.js app on ubuntu linux with postgresql on virtual box on windows client [duplicate]
I set up, ubuntu linux on virtual box. Then I installed postgresql and node.js
So basically I made a clean installation and i want that ubuntu handles my requests.
When i run node server.js , a ...
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Split brain on keepalived but both hosts get each others messages
I did a little digging and most issues I saw were resolved with a dive into firewalls and multicast fixes but from my pastes below that does not seem to be my issue. I am a little stumped on what it ...
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PPPoE pap Authentication failed even with correct password
I have setup on ubuntu 18.04LTS a ppp server in a virtual machine for test puproces with the following settings:
/etc/ppp/pap-secrets:
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# /etc/ppp/pap-secrets
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# This is a pap-secrets file to be ...
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Connect into a custom PPPoE server in Ubuntu in an Virtualbox experimental setup. Connection Fail
I am using an Ubuntu Server 18.04.2LTS and I want to try to make it as a ppp server in order to study the protocol a bit better via wireshark.
The idea is to use virtualbox and use virtual machines ...
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How can I access a .local url for a virtual ubuntu server installation?
I recently installed ubuntu server on a virtualbox virtual machine. I tried to connect it using <host name>.local but it didn't work? How can I access it from a url but not an IP?
(I do not ...
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Setting up a dns server with a virtualbox vm running Ubuntu and making it accessible via vlans
I have a virtual box vm I want to use as a dns server for my local network. I have a few vlans setup. The vm host is 10.0.50.2 The vm is 10.0.50.4
I want to keep everyone out of the 10.0.50.4 network ...
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What is the difference between IDE and SATA controlers?
On my Kali Linux storage devices,I have SATA and IDE controllers. What is the difference between them?
I added kali and created kali.vdi disk on SATA?
I sthis the right choice?
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Accessing Bottle webserver VM form Host
I have an Ubuntu VirtualBox VM running and Bottle webserver on http://0.0.0.0:8080. How can I access this on my host (OSX)?
I want to do this because accessing the web server using FireFox on the VM ...
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Permanently remove interface ipv6 address
I am running Ubuntu servers 16.04.5 LTS in virtual box. The servers are connected with an internal network to which want to assigne an IPv6 address range fd01:2345:6789:abcd::/64. The interface ...
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Is there an update only mode for Windows?
I have a windows virtual machine (VirtualBox) that I reset to a snapshot on an hourly basis.
The purpose is to provide a safe & consistent internet accessible DEMO / Test environment.
On an ...
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How to fully emulate VM hardware?
How do I fully emulate, pass through, or spoof all the hardware for a virtual machine? I want to set up a few guest VMs in such a way that they do not have any special drivers or odd hardware info. ...
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Migrate from VirtualBox to GCP
I've some in house testing VM's, primarily win10 that I host on Virtualbox, I'd like to move these to GCP but there doesn't' seem to be a simple way to do this.
anyone got any advice?
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Issue with configuring internet gateway on Debian server
VM2 connected to internet gateway (VM1) cannot access internet (VirtualBox)
I have installed VirtualBox VMs on my Linux (Ubuntu) which has wired internet connection. I want to connect my VM2 (Server ...
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Access to the Docker containers
For example I have Host Machine HM (Mac OS). Inside HM I have installed Virtual Box that contains one virtual machine (boot2docker) VM1 (192.168.99.1 at my host interface).
Inside VM1 I have docker's ...
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Forwarding and routing issues using linux bridge
I have two containers running (A and B) inside a Virtual Machine (Ubuntu 18.04).
For network simulation purposes I am routing packets from A to B (this part works).
What I want to do is to allow A and ...
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How to migrate windows guest from XenServer 6.5 to Virtualbox (latest)
Does anyone know the simplest way to migrate a Windows 10 Pro (x64) guest from a XenServer 6.5 host to Virtualbox? XenServer is proving to be very difficult to manage for this setup, which is to ...
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CentOS VitualBox Downgrade
I got a linux CentOS 7 as a host for virtual machines enviroments, mostly Windows. I use VirtualBox with Vagrant to build the machines. Lately I upgraded both: VirtualBox from 5.2.18 to 5.2.22 and ...
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Unable to SSH from Mac OS to Ubuntu VM on Virtualbox
I was looking for some assistance with SSH.
I have a Mac and on it, I have virtualbox installed. I have 2 VM's on it, one is a windows 10 VM and another one is Ubuntu. Both exposed to each other on ...