Oracle Virtual Box is a platform independent open source virtualization software available for Linux, Solaris, OSX, and Windows hosts.
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How do I install Guest Additions in VirtualBox?
I've recently installed Ubuntu on virtualbox. Now I want to install the guest additions. I started up my Ubuntu guest OS, clicked "Devices" and chose "Install Guest Additions". Nothing happened. What ...
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How do I install the VirtualBox version from Oracle to install an Extension Pack?
I downloaded VirtualBox OSE from the Ubuntu Software Center but it seems that that version is limited. I prefer to have the complete version and don't really care if it's closed source or not.
Can I ...
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Set up USB for Virtualbox
I'm using Ubuntu Maverick and Virtual Box 3+ and I installed Window 7 Ultimate Editon. The problem is that it doesn't detect USB drives on Window 7 but USB peripherals (mouse + keybord) are working.
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Error mounting VirtualBox shared folders in an Ubuntu guest
I have Ubuntu 10 as the guest OS on a Windows 7 machine. I have been trying to setup shares through VirtualBox, but nothing is working. First, I create the share in VirtualBox and point it to a ...
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How to install Ubuntu on VirtualBox?
I would like to know if anyone can help me with installing Ubuntu on VirtualBox 4.1.12. I'm really having trouble installing ubuntu on there. I am a first time user but always wanted to give it a try, ...
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How do I set up shared folders in a Windows XP virtualbox guest?
I have installed virtualbox-ose on ubuntu 11.04 and windows XP pro as the virtual machine.
Now I want to have a shared folder which can be accessed on both, the virtual machine, and my XP guest ...
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How do I install Ubuntu inside VirtualBox? [duplicate]
I am trying to install Ubuntu 12.04 as a testbed using virtual box . And my Host OS is also Ubuntu 12.04 . Please tell me how to install it using virtual box.
The .iso is on my desktop , suggest me ...
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How can I run Unity in a virtual machine?
Originally it was the case that Unity could not run in tools like Virtualbox.
How can I now do so?
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Mount VirtualBox SharedFolder in Ubuntu VM on boot
I have a Ubuntu VM running in VirtualBox.
I have a Shared Folder set up as myshare
I have a folder created in my home directory (~/jamesw) as host.
using the line sudo mount -t vboxsf myshare host ...
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The system is running in low-graphics mode error in “Virtualbox”
I faced a "The system is running in low-graphics mode error" like the on in this question How to fix "The system is running in low-graphics mode" error?
But this happened in Virtualbox!
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amd64 virtual machine in virtualbox
I have ubuntu 12.04
$ lsb_release -rc
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise
$ uname -a
Linux pablo-desktop 3.2.0-20-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 27 16:42:26 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 ...
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Virtualbox DNS stopped working on upgrade to 12.10
I have a Debian image setup on Virtualbox that uses the default NAT to access the internet. It was working fine before I upgraded to 12.10. After I upgraded the DNS lookups no longer work. I still can ...
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How to remove the graphical user interface?
Okay my question is that, I want to run a heavy application, on a Virtual Machine (VirtualBox) with just 2 GB RAM (Windows 7 32Bit Host has 4 GB, 3.5 GB effective). Initially I thought of installing ...
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Unable to Install VirtualBox Due to Missing Kernel Module
I am trying to install VirtualBox on my Ubuntu.
I first tried to sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose in a terminal, but after the configuration step, it fails with an error:
No suitable module ...
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How do I install VirtualBox 4.1?
How to install virtualbox-4.1.4 in ubuntu 11.04 fluently?
when apt-get install libqt* unmet dependency.
there is a long list of unmet dependency. Where start first and any command to install ...
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Higher screen resolution in VirtualBox?
I've just installed Ubuntu 10.04 into VirtualBox on Windows 7.
Unfortunately the only options showing for screen resolution are 640x480 and 800x600 and the monitor is showing as 'Unknown'.
How ...
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VirtualBox doesn't load after 12.04 upgrade
After upgrading from 11.10 to 12.04, virtual box stopped working.
I've run the following to try to fix it:
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install dkms
sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
but when ...
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How to access USB in VirtualBox running Windows XP as guest OS
I have installed Virtual Box: Host OS Ubuntu 10.10 - Guest OS Windows XP. No problem so far.How can I access USB devices (scaners, printer, and others) from the guest os, windows XP.If this is not ...
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Shared folder between Host and Guest in Virtualbox
Since Ubuntu 11.10 use a new kernel, it's very difficult to have a decent support for virtualization.
VirtualBox doesn't support guest additions for ubuntu 11.10, so I can't copy to and from my ...
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How to use a real partition with Windows 7 installed, in a virtualbox vm?
My Ubuntu 12.04 install is on /dev/sda5 and Windows 7 is on /dev/sda1. When I am running Ubuntu, I would like to use Virtualbox to run Windows 7 in a VM. The Windows 7 partition is 1 TB and is half ...
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IronHide / BumbleBee with a VirtualBox VM. Will it pass through video acceleration to the physical card?
Any ideas whether you can run a Windows VM via IronHide for graphics card acceleration? I'd like to play games / watch bluray etc utilising my video card.
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Virtualbox Kernel driver not installed
I tried to use my Virtual Box and this is the error I received - (I just updated to the new Ubuntu also) and I am VERY new at this Linux OS.
Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)
The ...
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How to upgrade VirtualBox to the latest version?
I am currently using VirtualBox 3.2. I would like to upgrade it to latest version without losing any operating systems in it. How can I achieve this?
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How can I stop Unity 2d intercepting meta key when I'm in VirtualBox?
Whenever I'm working in virtualbox guest system and pressing meta key (aka winkey, or Mod4) a huge unity menu pop ups.
Is there any way to fix this behavior?
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Install windows 7 through virtual box in ubuntu 12.04 [closed]
I am using Ubuntu 12.04. I want to install Windows 7 on my system from a cd through virtual box. I searched the detail tutorials over google but did not get the right one. So can some one kindly share ...
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What is the easiest method to share files between Windows and Ubuntu?
I have a Windows 7 installed on my laptop. I installed VirtualBox 4.1.4 with Ubuntu 11.10.
Now I want to be able to copy files from Windows to Ubuntu and vice versa.
What is the easiest method to ...
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Why are letters overlapping in the terminal?
I installed Oneiric as a guest OS in VirtualBox using the Mini CD. I installed the ubuntu-desktop package and everything seems to work fine - well, except for a font issue with the terminal:
As you ...
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How do I enable hardware virtualization technology (VT-x) for use in Virtualbox?
So I am trying to run Ubuntu in a virtualbox but on installing 12.10 from the .iso I was greeted by a warning telling me that audio wouldn't work then I pressed next and this popped up:
Failed to ...
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How to use NVIDIA GeForce M310 on Ubuntu 12.10 running as guest in Virtualbox?
Last couple of weeks played around with Ubuntu 12.10. This is running as a guest on Virtualbox hosted at Windows 7. There have been some challenges with the Unity 3D stuff. Particular due to not ...
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Migrate from a virtual machine (VM) to a physical system
Aka: How can I convert a .vdi or .vmdk to a real installation on a physical disk?
Is it possible/feasible to migrate a Virtual Machine installation of Ubuntu onto a physical machine? If possible, how ...
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How to run Windows XP inside Ubuntu
I am trying to convince my wife to switch to Ubuntu (after wanting to reinstall Windows for nth time because the computer is too slow). One thing that prevent her to do that is that she use several ...
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Convert my physical Operating System to a VirtualBox Disk
Is it possible to convert a Physical Ubuntu Install (Intel based PC with Ubuntu 10.10) to a virtual box disk, so that I can use that same environment on a separate pc or can keep it virtual for ...
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How to copy & paste with VirtualBox from Ubuntu (host) to Windows (guest)?
I have a Windows 7 installed on my laptop.
I installed VirtualBox 4.1.4 with Ubuntu 11.10.
I would like to copy a text from Ubuntu's terminal and paste it in a file on Windows. This doesn't work for ...
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Launch an application in Windows from the Ubuntu desktop
I'd like a write a shell script in Ubuntu that does the following:
Boot up a Windows 7 guest OS in Virtualbox, if it isn't running already.
Run a shell script in Windows, where the shell script is ...
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How do I migrate currently installed Ubuntu to a Virtual Machine?
I'm finding that my graphics drivers (ATI Radeon HD 4200) run MUCH better in a native windows system, I can't even get the closed-source drivers working in Ubuntu, thus leading me to want to run ...
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Mount a VirtualBox drive image (vdi)?
Is it possible to mount a VirtualBox drive image (.vdi) so the contents can be viewed in Nautilus etc.?
I have a windows 2000 .vdi which won't boot ("inaccessible boot device") after upgrading from ...
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Can I use virtualbox with a 64 Bit image in a 32 bit host
I have Virtualbox 4.1.20 in Ubuntu 12.04 32 Bit (With PAE) and I want to run Ubuntu Server 64 Bit on the Guest. Is this possible?. I ask since I get the following warning:
I want to make sure that ...
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How to mount a VirtualBox shared folder at startup?
I have Ubuntu installed in Virtualbox. I want to mount my VirtualBox shared folder in Ubuntu automatically when I log in Ubuntu. I put the following line in my ~./bashrc and ~/.bash_profile:
sudo ...
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Virtual Box Won't Accept .ISO To Install OS
I am trying to install a Virtual Machine, and every time I select the installation media I get this error:
Failed to open the CD/DVD image /home/jesse/Documents/Microsoft Windows Distribution ISO ...
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Why does an Ubuntu 12.10 guest in VirtualBox run very, very slowly?
I'm using currently Ubuntu 12.04 LTS as a host machine, and I've virtualized three machines:
a Xubuntu 12.04 guest
a Windows 7 guest
an Ubuntu 12.10 guest
All the guests have the same VirtualBox ...
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How do I increase the hard disk size of the virtual machine?
I have run out of space on my WinXP virtual machine, which I only gave 10 GB space for when I created it. Is there an easy way to increase it to, say, 20 GB? I can't see any obvious option in ...
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How can I access apache (on virtualbox guest) from host?
Hi I installed Apache on Ubuntu in a Virtualbox. When I go into the guest and load up Firefox I can see that Apache is working fine when I browse to http://localhost.
I would like to access this same ...
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How do I run a 64-bit guest in VirtualBox?
I would like to have an Ubuntu 11.04 64-bit test environment. When I try booting the Ubuntu 11.04 64-bit installation CD in VirtualBox, the following message is displayed by VirtualBox:
VT-x/AMD-V ...
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Error: kernel headers not found. (But they are in place)
I'm trying to install the Guest Additions in VirtualBox 4.04. Host OS is Ubuntu desktop 11.04 64bit, guest OS is Ubuntu server 11.10 64bit.
$ sudo ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
After some output this ...
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How can I get Compiz to work in a VirtualBox VM
Is there any way to get Compiz'z fancy graphics to work in a VirtualBox VM.
...and would it be too slow via a virtual video-card?...
Is it possible to actually hook into the Host's own physical ...
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Problems with NAT Adapater since upgrade to Ubuntu 12.10
I was running Ubuntu 12.04 w/ VirtualBox installed. I was using the NAT interface to connect to everything. Basically running VBOX for testing some things and a Windows VM for Netflix..
Was back to ...
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phpmyadmin 404 error on fresh ubuntu 12.04 install
I regularly set up Virtualbox ubuntu setups to run as local webservers. I have set these up several times and never had an issue. However, something has changed:
1)VB guest additions no longer allow ...
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How to remove Kernel/LTS Enablement Stack?
this question regarding the LTS Enablement Stack has actually two parts:
I installed Linux 3.5.0-x on Precise 64bit via sudo apt-get install linux-generic-lts-quantal xserver-xorg-lts-quantal . As ...
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How to access shared folder in Virtual Box
I followed the steps for sharing folders between windows 7 and Ubuntu in virtual box.
but the folder appear with X sign and give me the following message when open it "the folder conent could not be ...
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Use my webcam with Ubuntu running in VirtualBox
I have Ubuntu running in VirtualBox. How can I make my in-built laptop camera work with it.
