Questions tagged [virtualbox]
Oracle VM VirtualBox is a desktop virtualization product for x86, AMD64 and Intel64 processor architectures.
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Virtualbox linux host access windows guest filesystem [closed]
I'm on ubuntu 11.04 running virtualbox and I have windows 7 on the virtualbox.
Sharing a host (linux) folder with windows (guest) is easy. How do I access the windows (guest) filesystem from linux (...
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How do you use TinyCore with a VirtualBox and a non-us keyboard?
I need to install on several of our old WindowsXp workstations (only 1GB of RAM, 40GB for harddrive!) a Unix server for allowing our developers to perform some preliminary test on Unix.
Considering ...
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virtualbox ftp hangs on list command
I have virtual box installed on a windows 7 64-bit computer, with Cent OS 5.5 as guest os. I want to be able to use ftp between those. I've installed vsftpd on the guest os, and the guest os uses a ...
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Visual Studio Profiler In Virtual Machine
I am unable to profile any application using Visual Studio profiler in Virtual Machines.
I have used Virtual machines of Amazon EC2 at work and Virtualbox, Vmware at home.
Also I have used AMD ...
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Windows: Creating a service out of headless application (VirtualBox). Stop/shutdown script?
My client needs to have a virtualized Linux running on his Windows Server 2008 (R1). I've managed to setup VirtualBox as a service with srvany, but I see no way of creating a kind of 'stop script' so ...
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How do I stop the clock running fast on a virtualbox client running ubuntu 8.04?
I'm having a problem with the clock running fast in Ubuntu 8.04 server (2.6.24-24-generic kernel) running in VirtualBox 3.04.
It's drifting quickly, something like 5 minutes per hour.
I think it was ...
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Deploy OVF Package Fails
Using vSphere client I am trying to import a VM that was exported from VirtualBox.
I exported an .ova file from VirtualBox, I then used VMVware OVF Tool to modify the file .ova and create the ...
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Apache not serving changes to a file updated by gulpjs
I have a CentOS 6.5 VM set up using Apache HTTPD 2.2 as the web server and I'm using GulpJS for my build process. When I update a CSS file the GulpJS build process runs ok and if I look at the file on ...
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Can't do "yum update" in Fedora running in VirtualBox [duplicate]
I just made a clean install of Fedora 20 as a VM in VirtualBox. I set up the VM to use NAT as part of the network configuration in VirtualBox.
At first I could ping google.com, but could not browse ...
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Virtualbox / Vagrant "closed by remote host" during routine use
I am attempting to install OpenTreeMap in a Ubuntu environment. Hosted at DigitalOcean, one of their "Droplets". As part of the install process I have installed and configured Virtual Box and Vagrant ...
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Windows Server Backup : The program issued a command but the command length is incorrect
The program issued a command but the command length is incorrect
This is a virtual Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard version running on Virtual Host installed on a Windows 7 ultimate. Any help? Thanks.
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Xen Bridge Over VirtualBox Bridge
Short version: Will a Xen bridge work over a VirtualBox bridge? If so, how does it work?
Long version: I have Debian 6 (Squeeze) 64bit installed as a guest in VirtualBox, which is setup as a bridge ...
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Virtualbox: scp between host and guest is very very slow
I have install Virtualbox on a CentOS machine. The guests are CentOS machines too.
Their kernel is 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 and they are CentOS 5.4.
The problem is that scp'ing files from a the guests to ...
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Please clarify on the relation between Xen, VirtualBox, Sun VM and Oracle VM
Please clarify on the relation between xen, VirtualBox, Sun vm and Oracle vm
Which products still exist after Oracle acquired Sun?
which of the products that still exists are derived from xen?
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apt-get update hangs on fresh install of ubuntu 14.04.3 in virtual box
OK, it has been a while since I have configured a virtual box from scratch.
Fresh install of ubuntu 14.0.4.3 lts
no proxy or anything fancy
the network adapter is set to bridged
after the os ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 Installation with Preseeded RAID 1 Partitioning
I have been having a painful time trying to automate an Ubuntu 14.04 Server Installation with RAID 1 partitioning.
I'm testing this on top of VirtualBox with two Virtual Disk Images (dynamically ...
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Avahi (zeroconf/bonjour) service in bridged VirtualBox sometimes not found outside host
I have a VirtualBox with Debian 3.2.51 guest (vcube) on Ubuntu 13.10 host (ring) with a bridged network adapter.
vcube has an Avahi service configured with a vcube.local name.
I can see/ping/access ...
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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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How can I resolve Oracle 11g XE connection failure straight after installation?
I have just installed Oracle 11g XE on a Windows 7 VirtualBox VM, using all the default options.
"Getting Started" fails
When I click on Getting Started I get taken to http://127.0.0.1:8080/apex/f?...
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Using two network interfaces for FreeBSD VM
How do I turn on/off one network interface without affecting the other in FreeBSD?
I have a FreeBSD 8.2 virtual machine (Virtual Box 4.1.4), with two network interfaces, one bridged to my Ethernet ...
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VirtualBox: Ethernet adapter no longer shows up in my Guest OS
Not sure what I did, but for some reason the network adapter no longer shows up in my guest os running Ubuntu. When I run ifconfig, only the lo interface is listed. The Network Adapter settings for ...
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VboxManage in a Batch File
I have the command below in a windows batch file, whenever I run the above batch (ipconfig.bat) to get the ip of my linux vm, it outputs the ip fine but doesn't ends the batch file, I have to press ...
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running virtualbox/vmware from livecd
Are there any livecds/liveusbs with virtualbox or vmware (or similar) installed on them? I wonder if i could have livecd with virtualbox which i could use to boot my vdi images without configuring ...
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Vagrant + VirtualBox + X11 on a headless server
I'm trying to run a VirtualBox Ubuntu VM via Vagrant on a headless server.
The VM has ubuntu-desktop package installed, however when the machine boots up I can't open X applications. DISPLAY ...
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NFS issues between two linux/unix VMs
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I ran into a weird issue with my VMs using NFS. Both of my VMs are using linux. The server-side is using RHEL and the client-side using CentOS 7. My host machine is running Windows 7.
My ...
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iptables drops packets after POSTROUTING
I have a malware analysis environment that will intercept traffic to arbitrary domains and Internet services using InetSim. I have a sandbox that has its DNS server set to the InetSim instance, and ...
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Repackaged Vagrant (vbox) box will not allow ssh after subsequent imports
I'm experiencing the following.
If I download and run a base box (ubuntu/trusty64), make some modifications like installing packages, then shutdown and repackage the box, on subsequent imports it ...
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Selinux interfering with vboxwebsrv or phpvirtualbox
I have a brand new installation of Fedora 18, with a brand new installation of Virtualbox 4.2. I have spent a painful few hours trying to get phpVirtualBox working. Apache 2.4 and PHP 5.4 are ...
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rsync over ssh is not working anymore, while ssh itself is working fine (Write failed: broken pipe)
This issue started happening after i changed router.
This is the scenario:
Windows7 Host
Ubuntu 10.04 Guest (VirtualBox)
Ubuntu 10.04 remote server
What i used to do is run a very basic rsync ...
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apache2 how to trace caller of SIGTERM
I have a dex x64 on a virtualbox win7pro host.
My apache2 will stop responding after a page request or other activity such as upload via ftp.
The php.cgi becomes non responsive and a restart is ...
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Getting CPU steal times on Ubuntu 11.4 Virtual Box [closed]
I'm trying to check on CPU steal times in a virtual machine. The goal is for me to be able to detect if my app is running in a VM on over-committed hardware.
I'm currently just testing, in ...
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Spreading IO load over physical drives/arrays in VirtualBox VMs
We use VMs with snapshots as part of our support and release testing processes, which makes testing patches to client systems convenient (take snapshot, apply changes, test, revert, lather, rinse, ...
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"Insufficient space in download directory" error on VirtualBox when using yum in Fedora virtual machine
I just did a fresh installation of Fedora on VirtualBox - gave it 8GB of hard drive space. After installing a handful of packages via yum (and nothing more) I am getting the error:
Insufficient ...
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How to map a VPN (tun0) network adapter on host Ubuntu to a VirtualBox guest Windows?
I have a Ubuntu 10.04 running Oracle VirtualBox 3.2.6 with a Windows XP guest. I use a VPN that I would like to be accessed by the guest VM, on a ifconfig it shows as:
tun0 Link encap:UNSPEC ...
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Virtual machine (ubuntu desktop) on a debian server
I want to install an 32bit ubuntu desktop on a 64bit debian server.
The host does not have any desktop environment installed and I don't want to install one but the virtual machine should be a desktop ...
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Deploying a Django application in a virtual Ubuntu Server
I have a virtualbox machine running Ubuntu Server 10.04LTS. My intention is to this machine to work like a VPS, this way I can learn and prepare for when I get a VPS service.
Apache+mod_wsgi for ...
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Accessing apache in ubuntu 10 virtualbox guest from ubuntu 10 host
I did the following:
installed VirtualBox 3.1.6 OSE in ubuntu 10 desktop.
installed ubuntu 10 server on a virtual machine in VirtualBox.
select "LAMP server" and "OpenSSH server" options during the ...
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VirtualBox - Continuous Integration with Secure virtual server
I have a repository on the host machine (Windows 7) that I need to expose (via http protocol) to the virtual machine but not the the other world (even other computers on the router).
On the virtual ...
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VirtualBox - Static Guest, accessible from host
I'm using VirtualBox trying to set up Windows as my dev environment, but an Ubuntu VM as my "virtual server".
So, Windows 7 is my host OS on my laptop. My guest OS is Ubuntu, which will run my LAMP ...
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Python simple http server and virtual machines - can't connect. Ip changed? [closed]
I sometimes use python -m SimpleHTTPServer one liner to serve files from my vms for download to my host. Today i tried to use it inside virtualbox vm that is under NAT network settings - i typed this ...
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Forward traffic into docker container/VM
I have a pretty beefy machine at my disposal running Ubuntu 16.04 Server. It's running several docker containers and virtual machines (using VirtualBox) referred to as VMs hereafter. At the moment the ...
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Recovering a VHD after resizing it using VBoxManage
I am using VirtualBox 4.1.18 and had a virtual machine running Windows 8 RC with a single VHD, which was initially sized at 25GB (too small!).
After installing the OS and some applications I ran out ...
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Natively boot Virtualbox Image
I am faced with a Windows hardware/software problem left over from another person. It's on me to resolve. It's a mission critical setup. The situation is:
I've got a physical server machine with:
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Network adapter error in Windows Server 2012 Installed on Virtual Box
I installed Windows Server 2012 yesterday in VirtualBox, now the 2012 VM shows the network adapter as not found.
I updated my virtual box to latest version and installed guest additionals still same ...
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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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How can I administer Netware via a vitual machine (VirtualBox perhaps)?
We have several Novell Netware file sharing that we are inheriting. This is temporary and we are transitioning to our Samba based file sharing.
For the time being, I need to be able to login to ...
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How can systemd autostart and control VirtualBox guests?
In my particular case, with a new server installation of Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic and VirtualBox-5.2.20, it appears the old method of auto-starting guests is no longer available. Not that it was that ...
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Vagrant private IP not found after network change
I've got a simple Vagrant Ubuntu virtual machine setup using Virtual Box, running on a Mac.
I'm using private networking, configured with a static private IP like so:
Vagrant.configure("2") do |...
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Virtual box localhost access
Question on Virtual Box 4.1.8
So, i have Ubuntu 10.10 as host machine and Windows Xp as guest machine.
On host machine there is tomcat with web app running on port 8888.
When i am in guest machine i ...
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How do I access a web server on a VirtualBox from the internet? [closed]
Scheme:
Direct Internet connection with static IP (upd: connected directly to the ISP without any routers).
Win Web Server (Win 2008 R2).
VirtualBox with guest OS Linux Debian.
Web-server on Debian.
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