Questions tagged [virtualbox]
Oracle VM VirtualBox is a desktop virtualization product for x86, AMD64 and Intel64 processor architectures.
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How to remote access Virtualbox on a headless linux server
This is not a real question but I rather want to put this here in order to document it as there is a lot of contradicting information in the web.
When you run Virtualbox on a headless linux server, ...
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VM Attacking within Virtual box
This might be a rookie question, but I want to start attacking another virtual machine within my virtual box. what are the setting I should impose to do this?
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Vagrant with VirtualBox - can not establish SSH connection
I've setup VirtualBox and Vagrant on a server box without GUI. When I run vargrant up it hangs on the SSH part:
# vagrant up ...
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How to enable nested virtualization in order to use VirtualBox inside of a KVM virtual machine?
We have a KVM hypervisor (L0, AMD, Kernel: Linux level0kvmhypervisor 4.19.0-12-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.152-1 (2020-10-18) x86_64 GNU/Linux), which runs a virtual machine that I would like to use as a ...
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Is there a way to enable direct i/o in virtualbox when connecting to a raw disk in linux?
I found instructions on how to create a virtual disk for use with virtualbox that points to a raw block device. You can't do it from the ui, but you can do it from the command line:
VBoxManage ...
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Can't ping gateway or access outside internet from Ubuntu guest on Windows 10 host
Using Virtualbox Version 6.1.16 r140961 (Qt5.6.2) on Windows 10 Home host. When using Bridged Adapter mode on a Ubuntu 20.10 server vm.
I am unable to ping the gateway from the guest. I can ping from ...
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Pinging 8.8.8.8 via a windows 10 client going through windows server 2012 gives a request timedout error
This is my setup in virtualbox.
A DHCP Scope of range 112.123.1.100 to 112.123.3.188, Length = 16, Router IP is 112.123.2.2 (this also is the IP of the server the DHCP is configured on).
After this I ...
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Cannot access Ubuntu Server running on VirtualBox and remote machine
I have installed a Ubuntu 20.04.1 Server as VM on a VirtualBox, this VirtualBox is running on my school's remote server and installed GNS3 on this VM(Ubuntu Server). So far, everything is fine. But ...
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Using Debian as host for Virtualbox - problems with network
I have been banging my head on this for awhile. Im somewhat new to using Debian as a host/router for virtual machines and Im strugeling to get remote access to my VMs.
My setup is like this:
Server ...
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Newly Created VirtualBox VDI ext4 Occupying 24GB Actual Space?
I created a new dynamic vdi disk. Then, from within the guest, I used fdisk to mkfs.ext4. I then shut down the guest and saw this in my vbox:
The only thing I saved to the disk so far (Before ...
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Trying to connect over local network to SQL Server
I have a developer edition of SQL server 2019 running on my machine. In virtual box I have a linux server that's connected to a local host-only virtual network. I can ping back and forth between the ...
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Using Puppet to configure hypervisor
I am looking to use Puppet to configure a bare-metal host to spawn VMs using Vagrant/VirtualBox, whose configurations will also be managed by Puppet.
I think this can be achieved by:
Installing ...
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Unable to connect to virtual machine via RDP on Debian host, but OK on Windows host
I'm running a virtual Machine on VirtualBox 6.0.24. The VM is running Ubuntu 20.04. If I run the VM on my Windows 10 host, I can connect to the Ubuntu guest OS via both SSH and RDP.
I then copy the VM ...
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Host only adapter virtual box
My host is arch linux. And i have the same arch linux as guest. Host only adapter and nat connections are used.
In host adapter settings manual assignment of ip is done for the guests.
From the guest ...
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No IP address for Ubuntu VM constructed on VirtualBox and imported to libvirt/qemu/kvm
I'm trying to install an Ubuntu 18.04 VM created on VirtualBox (not sure which host platform) and exported as a VMDK to libvirt/qemu/KVM under RHEL 7.8. It seems to import and start up OK, but I ...
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VirtualBox Windows showing weird screen right after starting the Virtual Machine
I am trying to create a virtual Windows using VirtualBox, and I have encountered a problem. I am following the Wikipedia instructions, and can solve every problem encountered so far until Step 19. ...
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Why doesn't virtualbox NAT-forward inbound packets from a different subnet?
I have a Windows virtualbox NAT interface configured to forward a high-numbered port (8080) to my virtual machine.
if I connect to that port from the host, it works.
if I connect to that port from ...
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VirtualBox: prohibit taking snapshots or detect restore?
I need to somehow disable snapshots or at least detect if a snapshot restore has been made on a VM in VirtualBox (need this due to licensing state). From what I understand VirtualBox doesn't have a ...
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NAT not working on VirutalBox with kubernetes, PC -> [ VM -> haproxy -> MetalLB -> Ingress controller -> Kubernetes web server ]
Im trying to connect to a webserver deployed in kubernetes, from outside of the vm. I've connected the pod to an ingress controller and gave the ingress controller a LoadBalancer IP via MetalLB, then ...
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Virtualbox login lagging
So in our company we currently have a bunch of vms (virtualbox) setup in a gcp instance (specs below) but we are having a hell of lag on the login screen, what could possibly be? (tell me if you need ...
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Exclusively obtaining DNS servers via DHCP using Vagrant, VirtualBox, CentOS 7
I have a host running CentOS 8, on which I am using Vagrant 2.2.10 to run CentOS 7 VMs (using VirtualBox 6.1.12 as a provider). However, I want the guests to exclusively obtain their DNS servers via ...
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Virtualbox network - two guests connected to each other with only one having internet access
I've been poking around with this for quite a while and can't get it working. I'm using Virtualbox and I'm having to linux VMs - let's call them VM1 and VM2. There is also a linux-host. The idea I ...
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Routing only Virtualbox traffic through VPN
I'm a complete newbie when it comes to networking, so please bear with me.
I have a Mac OS (host - Mac OS 10.11) machine where I'm running Debian on a Virtualbox (guest). My work has a VPN that I ...
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cryptsetup Volume Key Does not match the volume
No matter what I do - after dd zeroing out the device - when I try to run cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/nvme0n1 I get the following error:
Volume key does not match the volume.
I cannot find any ...
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How to mount a Network Drive from a Windows host to a Linux running inside Oracle VirtualBox
I have a Windows 10 machine host that has several Network Driver connected to it. I am running a Linux VM withing an Oracle VirtualBox. I want to be able to access the Network Drives from the VM.
I ...
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Block all incoming trafic to VBox guest VM, except ESTABLISHED and RELATED
I have host machine, which is running Virtualbox and one guest VM. Let's say host have interface br0 with IP 1.2.3.4 and guest have eth0 with IP 1.2.3.5.
Guest is using 1.2.3.5 as public IP (bridged ...
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Read error (Connection reset by peer) in headers on Vagrant
Trying to install aaPanel into a vagrant machine. vagrant box used is Scotch box 3.5 which preloaded with php v7.0. I've updated php to v7.4 using sury's ppa and working fine.
I've used given ...
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kernel message, who knows what this means
kernel: [2427107.300793] traps: ATA-0 [27274] trap int3 ip:7f2c48115064 sp:7f2c22e9ad90 error:0 in VBoxDD.so[7f2c480ec000+155000]
the message is recorded in the virtualbox host system
when this comes ...
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Vagrant [ machinename.vm.network “private_network” ] is creating two VBOX Networks?
Vagrant machinename.vm.network "private_network" is creating two VBOX Networks?
It is creating a host-only network and a NAT network. Is this the intended behavior?
How can I force vagrant ...
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Vagrant - Provisioning multitple VBox-VMs with pre-defined names
I have a bit of trouble provisioning a multi-machine setup from a Vagrantfile.
VM_NAME="node"
IMAGE_NAME="centos/7"
Nodes=3
NodeMEM=4096
NodeCPU=2
NodeGUI=false
(1..Nodes).each ...
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Migrate windows guests from VirtualBox to KVM without re-activation?
The windows check the hardwareuuid of virtualbox VM for activation. Is there a way to use same UUID in KVM to prevent the reactivation?
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VM ram requirement for aws s3 sync job
I have a VM setup to sync 15TB of data split in 25GB volumes to S3 using the latest awscli v.2. I have a 100Mbps upload capacity, and the job will probably take 16 days. I haven't had any experience ...
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Is it possible to SSH to VM via localhost in Bridged mode in VirtualBox? [closed]
I have a Bridged mode set up in VirtualBox.
I can SSH to my Virtual machine this way (from my Windows machine to VirtualBox):
ssh root@192.168.0.105
However, when I try to SSH to VM via localhost (VM ...
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minikube on virtual box loses HostOnly network after host was in sleep mode - How to recover?
I'm running minikube with the vbox driver. I noticed that when I get back to my workstation after it's been in sleep mode, I can't do kubectl get pods (or any other kubectl command).
Some digging and ...
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How to ssh into CentOS 7/8 VirtualBox VM from MacOS
How to ssh into CentOS 7/8 VirtualBox VM from MacOS
I have installed a CentOS 7 VM from osboxes.org on Oracle VirtualBox on my Mac. I need to be able to ssh into the VM from the Mac. I have tried to ...
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Why can't I ssh into a Vagrant Ubuntu 20.04 VM (focal) but I can to 18.04 and 16.04 VMs on the same host?
I'm running Vagrant 2.2.9 using Virtualbox 6.1.12. My host OS is Ubuntu 20.04
I need to run VMs with different versions of Ubuntu: 16.04 (xenial), 18.04 (bionic) and 20.04 (focal). Xenial and Bionic ...
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How to ping a VM in the same network going through another VM not directly?
I have 3 VMs on the same network that we can call VM1, VM2, and VM3. VM1 is already able to directly ping VM3. However, I would like to go through VM2. How can I change this route?
Here is what I have ...
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Difference between VMWare Bridged network and Docker ipvlan/macvlan?
In Virtual Networking, I have seen two techniques to connect the guest machine with the Host machines network.
In VMWare/VirtualBox - Bridged Networking is used to connect the guest machine with the ...
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Bridging two (a physical ethernet with a virtual ethernet) different subnets on linux?
I am thinking if it's possible to create a bridge while allowing each bridged network to exist in it's own subnet.
Network 1 - Say, I have a physical ethernet based network eth01 - with subnet 192....
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VLAN AND PHP VIRTUALBOX
I have an ubuntu server with 2 network cards and I'm currently using only one network card.
In that server I have php-virtualbox installed. The server is connected to a switch port tagged for ALL ...
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Vagrant Docker refuses connection
Stack
I'm running the following:
Metal
Ubuntu 18.04
vagrant
dockerprovider
gitlab dk
Expectation
I'm trying to curl localhost:3000 to reach gitlab.
When I do that from the vagrant box, it works:...
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VirtualBox bridged adapter & giving external ip not working
I am trying to make my private OpenVPN server in my bare-metal server, which has windows server 2019 OS.
I tried to make ubuntu 18.04 server with new external ip(I have 2 static assigned external ip ...
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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 ...
