Questions tagged [virtualbox]
Oracle VM VirtualBox is a desktop virtualization product for x86, AMD64 and Intel64 processor architectures.
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VirtualBox: How to set up networking so both host and guest can access internet and talk to each other
I was wondering if someone could give me a simple guide on how to set up virtual networking in VirtualBox (4.0.2) so that the following scenarios work:
Both Host and Guest can access the Internet
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Disable caching when serving static files with Nginx (for development)
We are using Nginx to serve static files on a development platform. As it is a development platform, we'd like to disable caching so that each change is propagated to the server. The configuration of ...
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Vagrant / VirtualBox DNS 10.0.2.3 not working
I am running a fresh install of Linux Mint Nadia (14). I am following the instructions on Vagrant Getting Started but have gotten stuck on the Provisioning. It seems the Vagrant box cannot connect ...
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How to run VBoxManage.exe? [closed]
The file is located in Program Files/Oracle/VirtualBox/VBoxManage.exe and is used as a command-line interface with VirtualBox.
I'm using it to convert the .vdi image to a .vdmk (for VMware).
http://...
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Creating a virtual machine in VirtualBox from a physical one
Is there any way to create a virtual machine that you can use in VirtualBox from a physical installation that you have? For instance, if I have Windows XP installed on a physical computer and want to ...
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How to mount a VirtualBox shared folder? [closed]
What is the procedure for mounting a VirtualBox shared folder in Linux?
I tried variations of the following mount command but I keep getting protocol error or other mount errors.
sudo mount -t ...
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Can't create symlinks in virtualbox shared folders [closed]
A few days ago I found I can no longer create symlinks from Ubuntu in any directories that are shared with the OS X host.
ln: creating symbolic link `foo': Read-only file system
I'm able to create ...
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How do I access a web server on a virtualbox from the host machine [closed]
I have a windows Vista machine upon which VirtualBox is running ubuntu.
In ubuntu I am running a webserver at the address http://127.0.0.1:3000/
How do I access this address from my host machine (...
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Why should I enable IO APIC in VirtualBox?
What are the advantages of checking the "Enable IO APIC" option in VirtualBox?
While I can't find any information on advantages when I google it, two disadvantages are clear. First, it can break ...
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Vagrant set default share permissions
When running a vagrant instance the project folder is mounted on /vagrant automatically. However is mounted with the following permissions
# ll -d /vagrant
drwx------ 1 vagrant vagrant 612 Jun 13 14:...
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How can I get the Bridged IP address of a VirtualBox VM running in headless mode?
I have VirtualBox set up on a server. It was set up as a Bridged VM, and has an IP address. It's now running in headless mode, started with "VBoxHeadless -s PuppetMaster".
How can I find out what ...
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How to increase the size of a VirtualBox Disk Image
I had created a Windows XP image disk. It is of 5 GB, but I would like to know if there is any simple way to increase the size to 20 GB.
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Vagrant: Slow internet connection in guest
I'm trying to set up a vagrant. Host is Ubuntu 12.10. Here's my vagrant file:
Vagrant::Config.run do |config|
config.vm.share_folder("v-root", "/vagrant", ".", :nfs => true)
config.vm....
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What are the benefits of "enterprise-level" virtualization?
For a company with modest virtualization needs - VirtualBox is currently doing fine at hosting a few light servers - what would some of the benefits be of moving to a more robust platform?
I'm ...
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Access to MySQL server via VirtualBox
I am trying to get MySQL server (which is inside VM) to respond to client (which is on the host machine). All methods return same:
Host '10.0.2.2' is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server
I ...
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How to attach a virtual hard disk using VBoxManage?
What is the best method for setting the virtual hard drive (VDI) of the primary controller for an existing virtual machine?
Does the syntax change if the VDI is really a child differencing disk of ...
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Howto boot directly into a VirtualBox image? [closed]
I have a running setup as following:
Native OS: Windows 7 64bit, 3 Partitions:
c: (System)
d: (FAT32, here is my vdi file)
e: (unformatted)
VirtualBox: Fedora 14 running off the vdi file on drive d....
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How can I run the Ubuntu EC2 AMI images locally?
I've downloaded the Amazon Ubuntu EC2 AMI images (from http://uec-images.ubuntu.com/releases/10.04/release/) and I am trying to run it locally on my linux desktop. Is it possible to run the AMI using ...
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ia32-libs : Depends: ia32-libs-i386 but it is not installable
I am trying to install ia32-libs (a dependency to build the VirtualBox sources) on my Debian x86_64 box, however it's giving me the error:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
ia32-libs : ...
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Convert Hyper V images to Virtual box
I need to change my client OS from Windows 2008 to Windows 7. I therefore need to convert all of my HyperV images to Virtual Box.
What is the best way to do this? Or is there a way to run HyperV on ...
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VirtualBox: issue with symlinks in shared folders [closed]
Some time ago there was a thread to exact the same problem: Can't create symlinks in virtualbox shared folders. Now it's closed (why?). So I start a new one, because I've got this issue now and cannot ...
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Converting an EC2 AMI to vmdk image
I've come quite close to getting Amazon Linux to boot inside VirtualBox, thanks to this answer and these websites. A quick overview of the steps I've taken:
Launch EC2 instance with Amazon Linux 2011....
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Is virtualbox good for live server virtualization
I used virtual box before to test OS installation on my own personal computer. I'm not sure if it's suitable for actual virtualization on live servers. I mostly hear about Xen for that. Is virtualbox ...
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How to decrease virtual size/capacity of a Virtualbox vdi file
I want turn a physical machine running MS Windows 7 into a VirtualBox virtual machine. This is easy, I have done this before, but this time I needed the virtual size/capacity of the disk to be a fixed ...
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Vagrant shared folder and file change events
I have ubuntu virtual machine that I'm accessing through Vagrant.
On my host (Mac OSX), there is a folder with couple of files, that I share to virtual machine. In that virtual machine, I want to use ...
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Booting a native Windows install in Virtualbox: is it possible? [closed]
I am looking for something similiar to Bootcamp.
Currently, I run Ubuntu Maveric as my primary operating system and run Windows 7 in Virtualbox. For some tasks, however, running Windows virtualized ...
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Vagrant Error: Connection timeout. Retrying
I have a server with Ubuntu 12.04, Virtualbox 4.3 and Vagrant 1.5.1. I'm trying to use this box http://puppet-vagrant-boxes.puppetlabs.com/centos-64-x64-vbox4210.box however unsucessfully. When I run "...
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Virtualbox booting from a real drive?
I'm about to take the plunge and install Win7 RC1 on my desktop machine. However I want to preserve access to my old HDD with XP on it. I don't really want to use full dual-boot since that would ...
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PXE Booting Virtualbox guests in internal networking mode?
I am not sure if this is just specific to my distro's packages or is a vbox limitation. So, any help would be appreciated.
Ok, so I have a network of VMs, with one VM acting as a NAT for the other ...
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VirtualBox cloned Ubuntu Server network error
I run a number of virtual servers on my network and I want to be able to easily clone base installations of Ubuntu Server. I use the VBoxManage command to clone the actual hard disk and I then create ...
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Can't connect to PostgreSQL on VirtualBox guest
When I try to connect from a PostgreSQL client on the host system to the PostgreSQL server on a VirtualBox guest system, I get a "connection attempt failed" message.
The host system is Windows XP. I'...
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Bridging VirtualBox over OpenVPN TAP adapter on Windows
I'm trying to configure a virtual machine (VirtualBox guest running Backtrack 4) with a bridged adapter over a VPN connection. The VPN is is hosted by the cybersecurity club at my university, and ...
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Xen vs. VirtualBox under heavy load?
Which performs better under heavy CPU and memory usage on the virtual servers, Xen or VirtualBox?
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What's the best file-system for storing virtual machine images?
I'm planning how to partition my hard drive.
I want to have 2 partitions - one for Ubuntu, the main operating system, and the other for virtual machine images, as I want to run virtual machines of ...
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Virtualbox centos no eth0
just installed a fresh centos-minimal and i can not get bridged network to work or any of the networks not even in host-only mode. when you run ifconfig there is no eth0 only a lo,
also when you cat /...
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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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How to get decent NFS performance for workloads like git?
I manage a vagrant setup for our developers running OSX to manage VirtualBox systems for development.
In order to support inotify inside the linux machine, we eschew the usual method of sharing ...
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What are the performance implications of running VMs on a ZFS host?
I'm considering migrating from ext3 to ZFS for data storage on my Debian Linux host, using ZFS on Linux. One killer feature of ZFS that I really want is its data integrity guarantees. The ability to ...
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VirtualBox - use in small office and backing up
I run a small office consisting of a 8 man development team and a couple of managers. We're thinking of moving to a hardware setup whereby we have 1 single powerful server running several VirtualBox ...
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EC2 VM import: VirtualBox
I would like to know if it's currently possible to import a virtualbox vm on the ec2 cloud, I have tried with a virtualbox vmdk but it did not succed. Apparently it is designed for VMware's vmdk files....
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Vagrant NFS share doesn't show updated file if size doesn't change
When mounting /vagrant over NFS, a changed file on the host is not refresh on the guest if the size doesn't changes. Quick update/typo are not immediately reflected unless I make enough modification ...
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VirtualBox: grain table inconsistency
The setup in question is as follows: Windows 7 64bit host running VirtualBox. The guest machine is running Windows XP 32bit.
After a power failure on the host box, the guest machine cannot boot and ...
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Nested virtualization - is it possible? [closed]
I need to use Win10 with a server created with VMware ESXi 5.0. I'm going to install Debian 6.0 on VMware ESXi 5.0 and then install VirtualBox 5.0.14 with Win10 guest operating system. Will it work?
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Can't access VirtualBox host-only network from windows host
I've got two vms running on a windows host, each with a host-only network and ips in the 192.168.56.XXX range. One of them is running apache and serving some content that I want to access from my ...
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Ubuntu: Resize the root LVM(2?) partition
I have an Ubuntu virtual machine running in VirtualBox 2.2.4, and I created it on an 8gb virtual disk which is too small.
So, I am trying to increase the size of the disk. So far, I have done this:
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vagrant public ip not accessible
I have this config:
config.vm.network "public_network", ip: "192.168.56.101", :mac => "0022334455DA"
And after vagrant up ifconfig prints:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:27:12:96:...
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running setfacl on a vagrant shared directory
Trying to get a Symfony2 project up and running with a vagrant VM. I've seen a zillion articles on this, but getting the cache directory permissioned correctly is proving to be excruciatingly painful.
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VirtualBox - How to dynamic RAM allocation for Guest OS
VirtualBox Graphic User Interface Version 4.1.2_Ubuntu r38459 (installed with Ubuntu Software Center)
Host OS: Ubuntu 11.10
Guest OS: Windows XP sp 3 (with guest additions installed)
I have ...
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Connect to guest from host - Virtual Box [closed]
I have a Windows XP as guest OS on VirtualBox running on Ubuntu.
Inside that Guest Windows XP, I have an instance of Apache running.
Now I want to connect to that Apache from the host (Ubuntu).
Is it ...
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