Questions tagged [virtualbox]

Oracle VM VirtualBox is a desktop virtualization product for x86, AMD64 and Intel64 processor architectures.

Filter by
Sorted by
Tagged with
4 votes
2 answers
3k views

date keeps resetting

I have a virtual machine(VirtualBox) running Ubuntu server. When i issue date -s 2011-01-01 it changes the date, but after a few seconds, the date resets itself to the real time. I do not have any ...
quamis's user avatar
  • 362
4 votes
3 answers
1k views

File change on a LAMP development server not taken into account

I set up a small LAMP virtual machine for PHP development. It works fine, excepted that when an image which has already been served is modified on disk, then requested again, the "old" image is still ...
oparisy's user avatar
  • 181
4 votes
2 answers
4k views

Simulate a hard disk fail on Virtual Box

I'm testing some NAS setups using virtualbox, with several virtual hard drives, and software raid. I would like to test the behavior under certain fails, and I would like to simulate that one of the ...
Andor's user avatar
  • 601
4 votes
1 answer
46k views

How to convert clonezilla backup image to virtual machine?

I have a 30gB tar.gz disk image of a physical debian machine, created by clonezilla - what's the easiest list of steps to follow to convert it to a virtual machine? Do i have to necessarily make .iso? ...
symphonicd's user avatar
4 votes
2 answers
3k views

GIT fetch remote: SSH timed out on port 22 (Ubuntu)

I've got an Oracle VM VirtualBox running Ubuntu 9.10, and also a pysical DELL server running Ubuntu 9.10 I can use putty to connect to both the VM and the DELL. From either I can ssh into the other, ...
Pete's user avatar
  • 303
4 votes
4 answers
9k views

minimal distro for launching Virtualbox VM's

I'm wondering if there exists an OS or distro that is purely created for launching a simple GUI at startup that allows a user to select a VM and fire that up. You could see it as a multi-boot like ...
ChrisR's user avatar
  • 262
4 votes
2 answers
3k views

Port forwarding to virtual machine

I'm running an http(zope) server on Ubuntu 8.04 server, in a Virtualbox machine, on an Ubuntu 9.04 box. The guest system accesses network over NAT. How can I forward the host machine's port 80 to the ...
Atilla Filiz's user avatar
4 votes
3 answers
5k views

Copy files from guest to host the first time with rsync using Vagrant

When doing vagrant up a "shell" provision download some files into the synced folder. Those files should be also copied to the host machine synced folder, so that the project would be available from ...
Manolo's user avatar
  • 562
4 votes
1 answer
820 views

Use Ansible to create vagrant box ?

I am new to Ansible and I bit confused if I can better use Vagrant to create VM instances (on EC2 and local virtual boxes) and use Ansible only for provisioning or if I can/should use Ansible to ...
JE42's user avatar
  • 221
4 votes
1 answer
5k views

Getting same IP address for cloned Virtual Images

I was trying to install 3 VM and instead of creating them individually (by using the New VM) I actually cloned them. Now after I start the VM (they are running in the bridge mode) all the VM's are ...
bi0s.kidd0's user avatar
4 votes
1 answer
829 views

How to tell Mercurial to never create hard links

I am planning to use Mercurial in the near future on some projects. These projects will normally reside in a directory on my Windows machine, but I will be sharing these directories using VirtualBox ...
scrapdog's user avatar
  • 153
4 votes
2 answers
4k views

How to create a chained differencing disk of another differencing disk in Virtual Box?

How to create a differencing disk (a chained one) from a disk that is already a differencing image? I would like to have: W2008 (base immutable) -> W2008+SQL2008 (differencing, with SQL ...
WooYek's user avatar
  • 304
4 votes
6 answers
17k views

Is there a GUI tool for managing VirtualBox drives/machines? [closed]

Is there a Windows GUI tool (or even a collection of "Send to..." scripts) to manage VirtualBox .vdi drives and/or virtual machines? What I'm looking for is a way to right-click on a drive and clone ...
Chris Nava's user avatar
  • 1,157
4 votes
3 answers
4k views

Reach LXC container from a virtualbox guest on the same host

Context I develop websites on my Ubuntu laptop (Ubuntu 13.04 64b). Each site runs within a dedicated LXC container¹ on network 10.0.3.x I sometimes need to reach those sites from a virtualbox guest ...
Huge's user avatar
  • 231
4 votes
2 answers
2k views

DNS not resolving the same as host

We have an OSX host and an ubuntu 10.04 vagrant instance running on virtualbox. While attempting to send an email to emailtests.com (for email testing purposes) we noticed that the DNS was not ...
Parris's user avatar
  • 331
4 votes
1 answer
2k views

How to use VirtualBox as a router without NAT between two subnets?

My host machine is in a 192.168.2.0/24 subnet and I wanted to set up a 10.0.0.0/8 network with various hosts in VirtualBox that talk to each other. So VirtualBox should act as a router between those ...
JohnnyFromBF's user avatar
  • 1,259
4 votes
2 answers
3k views

How to manage changes to set of cloned Virtual Machines?

I am trying to set up a workable model for development. I'm wondering if anyone has recommendations for Virtual machine software and what process to follow to enable the following: Developers grab a ...
Adam's user avatar
  • 995
4 votes
2 answers
2k views

Is it required to keep the virtual machine window open to keep it running in Virtual Box?

Using Windows XP as host and guest(s) and VirtualBox as virtualization solution. Do I have to keep the guest's window open in order to keep it running? When I try to close it, the "Close Virtual ...
user avatar
4 votes
2 answers
15k views

Cant connect from host (windows) to pfsense (VirtualBox)

I have installed pfsense in VirtualBox. I'm trying to access its configuration through my windows' browser but I cannot. In the virtual machine's properties, I have tried to configure the WAN ...
Dan's user avatar
  • 145
4 votes
1 answer
2k views

After resizing a VDI in virtualbox, Windows 7 guest OS does not see additional space [closed]

After increasing the size of a VDI disk file in virtualbox (using VBoxManage), I found that the guest OS (Windows 7) boots fine, but does not find the additional space. I have checked disk manager (...
Chris Shain's user avatar
4 votes
5 answers
6k views

Ubuntu 10.04 on virtualbox gives error: Target filesystem doesn't have /sbin/init \ No init found. Try passing init= bootarg

I'm a linux newbie and the only reason I have it installed is so I can stop having Windows incompatibility issues with Ruby on Rails. Having said that, it sure has been nice, and much faster, and I ...
user avatar
4 votes
1 answer
131 views

Why are Puppet effects disappearing after Packer post-process?

I decided to learn Packer by putting together a FreeBSD Vagrant box. The whole setup is on GitHub. Everything works well until the post-processing stage. Actually, that stage likewise claims to ...
kojiro's user avatar
  • 559
4 votes
1 answer
2k views

Salt minions keep losing connection to master

I'm testing Salt. I have a simple test setup of 3 VirtualBox VM's -- with salt-master running on one of the machines and salt-minions running on the other 2 VM's. I can start either of the salt ...
Brendan Abel's user avatar
4 votes
0 answers
486 views

How to create my own virtual machine base images? [closed]

I would like to create my own base VM image to allow for faster provisioning of new VMs. Right now, I'm creating a new and empty VM, inserting the distribution's ISO into it, and going through the ...
user306802's user avatar
4 votes
0 answers
4k views

vagrant apache not accessible from host

I am runing a virtual box from vagrant and I am trying to access web pages that are served by guest apache server. When I execute wget http://dev.test.com/index.html on guest everything works fine ...
Domen Vrankar's user avatar
4 votes
0 answers
3k views

virtualbox to qemu but results in no bootable device qemu

I use vagrant to create my development vm. I exported the vmdk to vdi, and then convert the vdi to img. cd virtualbox_dir/test_vm VBoxManage clonehd test_vm.vmdk raw.vdi 0% ..... 100% qemu-img ...
Daniel Huger's user avatar
4 votes
0 answers
1k views

bridged network problems running VirtualBox appliance inside VMware server

One of our hardware vendors supplied us with a virtual appliance that they said needed to run inside VirtualBox. That's non-negotiable - as it's designed to run as an appliance, they need some way of ...
tmountjr's user avatar
  • 163
4 votes
0 answers
1k views

Unreachable Hosts in Windows NLB on VirtualBox [closed]

Setup Cluster : Two Windows Server 2008 R2 nodes. Each running as a VM inside of VirtualBox. Each Node has NLB enabled and a cluster configured. The cluster is configured to use IGMP Multicast. ...
bearrito's user avatar
  • 380
3 votes
1 answer
11k views

VirtualBox inside Hyper V guest [closed]

I am trying to run a Ubuntu guest in VirtualBox (configured using Vagrant) installed on a Win 8.1 guest running inside a Win 2012 R2 Hyper V host. I disabled Hyper V on the Win 8.1 guest. I am ...
Vyas Bharghava's user avatar
3 votes
2 answers
13k views

Do VirtualBox snapshots take up space?

When I remove a snapshot, it just says 'Merging differencing image'. I don't know how much room each snapshot is taking. It's certainly not copying everything.
AlxVallejo's user avatar
  • 1,096
3 votes
4 answers
3k views

VirtualBox performance degradation when running multiple VMs in parallel

At Travis CI (http://travis-ci.org) we use VirtualBox VMs (through Vagrant) for running tests for the Ruby community. On our worker servers we have up to (up to) N parallel processes running N test ...
Sven Fuchs's user avatar
3 votes
5 answers
4k views

ZFS + FreeBSD + virtualbox

I'm configuring a FreeBSD server hosting virtualbox serving half dozen mission critical busy mail servers. I just learned ZFS, I'm quite attracted, but have a few questions: what is the CPU overhead ...
John's user avatar
  • 31
3 votes
5 answers
2k views

Virtualbox guest additions security issues

Will installing guest additions post a security risk to a host OS?
Phil's user avatar
  • 2,019
3 votes
2 answers
3k views

install Gluster inside a VM, or set up a VM on top of Gluster?

I'm setting up a high-availability shared-nothing geographically-distributed web server, using multiple A-records for its domain. Right now I'm more concerned with high availability -- "When I unplug ...
David Cary's user avatar
3 votes
3 answers
9k views

How to backup VirtualBox virtual server?

I'd like to setup a server running in a VirtualBox virtual machine on a Linux host system. What would be an effective way to backup this virtual server "whole", so that in the event of either a host ...
hpy's user avatar
  • 855
3 votes
4 answers
8k views

Can ping between Host and Guest, but can't acces webserver with Virtualbox

How come I can ping back and forth between host and guest using VirtualBox, but I can't access from the host the web server installed in the guest. I'm using a host-only network. Host Ubuntu 10.10 ...
givanse's user avatar
  • 230
3 votes
1 answer
842 views

Can you use Git to track changes to VirtualBox disk?

Can you track changes to a VirtualBox disk using a VCS like Git? If not what is a good way to use version control to track changes while configuring virtual servers. **I understand that git doesn't ...
T. Thomas's user avatar
  • 187
3 votes
4 answers
3k views

Creating virtual harddrive from physical Windows 2000 server installation

I have found lots of guides on how to create a virtual image of a win xp or newer windows, but it eludes me how I can do that with win 2000 server. Anyone have any good input here? I was hoping to end ...
cc0's user avatar
  • 83
3 votes
2 answers
3k views

Is there a host system unique ID in VirtualBox? [closed]

Is there any chance to get an unique host system ID within my VM that is hosted in VirtualBox? Asked different: is there an unique ID of the host system that I can read from the virtual machine. In ...
PeterMmm's user avatar
  • 905
3 votes
1 answer
4k views

10 second SSH delay prior to successful login [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: ssh delay when connecting I have a Scientific Linux virtual guest running out of Virtualbox 4.0.4 on an Ubuntu 11.04 machine. When I SSH from the host to the guest, there's ...
mjk's user avatar
  • 273
3 votes
3 answers
9k views

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 - ...
jeremyjjbrown's user avatar
3 votes
1 answer
2k views

Using KVM and VirtualBox VMs concurrently

I am considering moving several of my virtual machines to a single Linux system for a variety of reasons. The problem is that most VMs are KVM-based, but there are a few VirtualBox VMs as well. I ...
thkala's user avatar
  • 1,220
3 votes
3 answers
4k views

Install VirtualBox Headless only

I want to install VirtualBox on a fresh debian box without having to install an X-Server. How can that be done ?
user avatar
3 votes
2 answers
9k views

How to get CentOS Kernel Source in order to install VirtualBox [closed]

TL;DR: The running kernel version was older than the kernel source that VirtualBox found when trying to install. There is no need to build the source yourself; final resolution was to actually remove ...
Brock Hensley's user avatar
3 votes
2 answers
1k views

Configure VirtualBox webserver to see visitors IP address

I finally managed to move my server to VirtualBox virtual machine. VM is running in NAT mode. I have forwarded necessary ports, including the port 80 which I first fowarded with iptables to port 8888,...
Krisjanis's user avatar
3 votes
3 answers
5k views

fully automated install of virtualbox tools in windows 7

I'm making an unattended install of windows. Part of it is installing virtualbox guest additions, which is run by the installer due to the following entry in Autounattend.xml: <?xml version="1.0" ...
Claudiu's user avatar
  • 1,207
3 votes
4 answers
3k views

Minimalistic linux distro for Virtualbox?

I want to run some Linux stuff on my XP development machine which clearly doesn't work too well in their Windows specific versions. What would be an appropriate Linux distro to install on Virtualbox ...
Industrial's user avatar
  • 1,599
3 votes
1 answer
3k views

Virtualbox host only + NAT network slow [closed]

I have a Virtualbox CentOS 6.6 machine. It takes a very long amount of time to ssh (like 80 seconds), but once I log in it is not as slow. I also notice when pinging something like google.com from the ...
wilbbe01's user avatar
  • 133
3 votes
2 answers
2k views

"vagrant up" fails with "NS_ERROR_CALL_FAILED" error [closed]

I am following the basic "Getting Started" guide: http://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/getting-started/index.html I ran vagrant init <etc> followed by vagrant up, but it fails with "...
Peter's user avatar
  • 141
3 votes
2 answers
11k views

How to make a DHCP server on virtual machine serves other virtual machines(on different physical machines)?

I'm building a virtual cluster with VirtualBox and Opensuse. I have 10 physical machines and need several vms on each. The virtual machines are supposed to be in a "private" network, but still have ...
Tony's user avatar
  • 195

1 2 3
4
5
22