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VirtualBox is a platform-independent open-source virtualization software available for Linux, OS X, Solaris and Windows hosts. Guest additions need to be installed to automatically adjust the guest screen resolution. USB is supported through a proprietary extension.

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What are the recommended base memory and processors for Ubuntu? [duplicate]

I am looking forward to creating a virtual machine to try out ubuntu. I installed the image file from the main Ubuntu website, and install virtual box on my machine. I want to know what the ...
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How to upgrade VirtualBox 6.1.38 to 7.0 on Ubuntu 22.04?

The VirtualBox that came from the Ubuntu repository while setting up my new 22.04 system a couple weeks back was virtualbox-qt 6.1.38. How can I upgrade the system to VirtualBox 7.0? According to the ...
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Ubuntu not starting on Virtual Box

I've installed Ubuntu on Virtual box, allocating 2 cores from my proccessor, 4 gb of ram and 25 gb of internal memory. However, it displays the "aborted" message and refuses to start. How ...
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graphics problem in ubuntu 22.04 on virtualbox

I am having some glitches in graphics in my Ubuntu 22.04 running on VirtualBox. This is what apps on the top panel should look like but what I am getting is this: Why is the top panel broken like ...
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how to mount seperate partition for /var [duplicate]

So i am trying to write a script for hardening Ubuntu based on CIS benchmarks, this is what recommended for /var:CIS benchmark details for testing purpose i have installed a new Ubuntu 22.04 in Vbox, ...
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Text not appearing in Box

The text is not appearing in some dialog boxes. While terminal and file names are properly showing. Can anyone have idea about it? I attached picture here. I tried soo much but unable to resolve.. ...
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GUI not appeared in virtualbox ubuntu

I created a virtual Ubuntu machine in Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager. Previously, I could access the GUI. I could navigate to folders using the mouse pointer. But now I only receive a terminal. How to ...
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Issue creating a VM in Ubuntu 20.04 with Vermin and VirtualBox

I recently have bought a suscription to a ubuntu VPS server in order to play with kubernetes and I am trying to create a master and a node virtual machine following a tutorial that uses Vermin and ...
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How do I install Whonix

I think Whonix is installed but whenever i try to load it the vm gives me this RTR3InitEx failed with rc=-1912 (fRtFlags=0x10000) (rc=-1912) The VirtualBox kernel modules do not match this version of ...
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Shrinking logical volume on partition to copy VirtualBox VM to new .vdi file

I've created an Ubuntu 22.04 virtual box VM on a Windows 10 host machine. I've allocated 600GB virtual memory size for a dynamically expanding disk in virtual box. When I created this VM I had thought ...
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VirtualBox: "Move" guest window becomes grayed out after switching monitors // how to fix (other than rebooting the guest)?

With a Ubuntu host, and Windows guest (all up-to-date with the latest versions as per 15 Dec 2023; i.e., Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS, VirtualBox 7.0.12 r159484 (Qt5.15.3), and Windows 10), I am reproducibly ...
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Graphical apps showing distortion in VirtualBox

I am running Ubuntu 22.04 on my VirtualBox on Windows 10. Graphical apps are not working. I tried bless and stegsolve. Since both apps have a GUI, both gave a distorted GUI which is unusable. ...
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No UEFI password prompt installing virtualbox on 22.04

Installation status bar at 98% when the installation terminal window throws up: Your system has UEFI Secure Boot enabled. │ │ UEFI Secure Boot requires additional configuration to work with │ third-...
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how to get files from Oracle VirtualBox without running it

hope this message finds you well. I am currently experiencing difficulty accessing machine from Oracle VirtualBox that is running on my windows 10 because I have forgot the password. I'm wondering if ...
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Danish keyboard and special characters on VirtualBox with Ubuntu

I have an issue with the danish keyboard layout and special characters on a VirtualBox with Ubuntu Server installed PC with MX Anywwhere wireless mouse and a Razer Blackwidow V3 Pro Keyb connected ...
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Need help with shared folder on ubuntu vm

I am using Try Ubuntu on a VM, I have not installed it yet as I'm not sure it will work for me. I created a shared folder in the VM shared folder- in my windows C:\Users\sfox\documents\images with ...
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Netplan Configuration Isssue: Unable to obtain ip address for ethernet configured with dhcp4

Goal: Determine why configuring an interface with only dhcp4 fails. Setup I am working on configuring netplan for a Virtualbox VM. The VM has 1 bridged adapter connected to my machines wlo1 and 2 ...
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VirtualBox vs Qemu/KVM performance - Ubuntu 22.04 guest on top of Ubuntu 22.04 host

I'm currently using Virtualbox in Ubuntu 22.04 for VMs running also Ubuntu 22.04. I'm not using it for games, so no need for PCI passthrough. Only web browsing or some P2P network transfers. My ...
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Shard-Folder in Virtualbox is not displayed on the VM

I installed the guest extension for virtualbox and created a folder in the started vm (Windows 11) via --> Devices --> Shared Folder -->. The Shared folder is /home/i-M/desk/my_shard_folder ...
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Cannot run Virtualbox 6.1.38_Ubuntu r153438 on Ubuntu 22.04

I cannot not run a virtual machine in Virtubalbox anymore. I already made an apt purge virtualbox* and removed all virtualbox files in the HD. Reinstall it, create a new VM but keeps giving the error: ...
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virtualbox: using existing virtual hard disk file for new vm

I had an ubuntu 18.04 VM that I created using virtual box on windows 11 host. Due to some hardware issues my laptop needed some repair. But repair caused VM to have adapter issues and VM stopped ...
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Problem with installing guest addtions on VirtualBox on Ubuntu Server 22.04

I installed VirtualBox on Windows 11 , version 7.12 r159484 Qt5.15.2 I run in VirtualBox an Ubuntu server 22.04. I downloaded guest additions with command wget from VirtualBox on downloads. ...
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Where does the space go? (VirtualBox VM)

Sorry, I am not a professional. I need to use a virtual machine with Linux and a lot of disk space. When I created a VM in VirtualBox, I set virtual hard drive size to 80GB. But the system in the VM ...
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Ubuntu 22.04: Able to ping the host but no internet access on browser

I am new to ubuntu. I have VM Virtual box installed on Windows system which launches the Ubuntu 22.04. My system is connected to Ethernet and is able to access the internet (with Windows 10). When i ...
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Headless VirtualBox VM / phpvirtualbox cant add iso to VM

I have installed a Headless VirtualBox VM Host on my Ubuntu Server. Install finished but then I test the software. It's a fresh install Ubuntu Server 22.04. However, nothing happens when I try to ...
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Can I eject Guest Additions CD image after installation?

To enable fullscreen on my guest VM (Ubuntu 22.04.1), I inserted Guest Addition CD image and ran the appropriate executable file (VBoxLinuxAdditions.run) which solved the fullscreen problem but now in ...
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VMWare unable to enumerate USB Devices

I have a laptop running Ubuntu 23.10 running VirtualBox Graphical User Interface Version 7.0.10_Ubuntu r158379 When I boot the Virtual Box interface up, it immediately pops up the error: Failed to ...
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Need help while installing virtual box{i am a newbee} This is what I've got as errors list

virtualbox-7.0 : Depends: libqt5core5a (>= 5.15.1) but 5.12.8+dfsg-0ubuntu2.1 is to be installed Depends: libqt5dbus5 (>= 5.14.1) but 5.12.8+dfsg-0ubuntu2.1 is to be installed ...
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How to fix "Failed to start System Login Service"?

I recently expanded the virtual hard drive of my virtual machine running ubuntu. I then saw that before that storage was available to me, I needed to expand the partition of the hard drive. First, I ...
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How can I access all the Free Space on my drive? I get an error while trying to expand the partition

I'm running ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS on a virtual machine, to which I originally alocated 60 GB of storage. I then realized I needed more space, so I expanded the size of the virtual drive, but once inside ...
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Download virtual box and run windows in it [duplicate]

I want to download VirtualBox on Ubuntu 22.04 and run Windows on it. I just installed Ubuntu and I'm new to it so I don't know much about it. While installing VirtualBox via apt get install virtual... ...
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I can't start a Virtual Machine from a VDI file obtained by VBoxManage convertdd [duplicate]

I have followed instructions showed by this post and in particular I started with the following dd command: sudo dd if=/dev/sde of=/path/to/file/img/my-bootable-lubuntu.img The source for the dd ...
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Ubuntu 23.10, no VirtualBox available. What can be done?

VirtualBox is key for me right now as I want to have Cursor IDE in a Windows VM because the Linux AppImage doesn't work. Also for some of my security learning running Kali and my VM's from school. ...
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Not seeing files in VM shared folder

I created a shared folder in the VM shared folder in my Windows C:\Users\sfox\documents\images with Access Full AutoMount Yes at /srv/tftp I put 2 or 3 files in the images folder on my windows pc but ...
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How can I solve: Error installing linux-image-6.2.0-36-generic

How can I solve this? Ubuntu version is 22.04 and virtual box version is 7.0 I have already installed one Ubuntu vm on this virtual box. Is it the reason why this new one not getting installed?
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Unable to share a folder with VM. Folder within a partition of type NTFS. Ubuntu 23.10 as base OS, with a Windows virtual machine. Can you help?

I am currently working with an IBM Linux server in which I have installed Ubuntu, version 23.10. In this Linux OS, I recently installed Virtual Box virtual machine, version 7.0. I am a ...
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trouble connecting a linux server to a windows client

How can I connect a Linux server to a Windows client. I've both operating systems already installed on VirtualBox — Ubuntu Server 22.04 and Windows 10 Enterprise. For the Linux server, I kept the ...
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USRP N210 Connection Issues on Ubuntu 22.04 VirtualBox VM

I am running into consistent connection issues when trying to run a USRP N210 on a VirtualBox Ubuntu 22.04 VM. I built uhd from source on the ettus page, configured a static IP address in Ubuntu, ...
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Failed to Send Host log on ERROR

I know that there are similiar questions , but none of them seems to resolve the Issue. Basically, a quite few days back, there was this notification coming on my ubuntu VM that there is a little root ...
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What's taking up the disk-space on my Ubuntu Desktop VM (virtualbox)?

I have an Ubuntu VM (virtualbox). I'm regularly getting the 'filesystem nearly full message', which seems odd, as there's not much on there. Querying this by looking at the discs, I can see I have 3 ...
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Receiving an "unable to resolve host address" error when using wget [closed]

New to using Linux systems and I recently bought a book with incorporated labs to teach me to use Kali Linux through Virtualbox. However, when I attempt to use wget, I receive this error: Resolving ...
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WIN11 VM Does Not Start

I recently installed win11 vm using the method shown here https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/how-to-install-a-windows-11-vm-using-lxd#1-overview. I finished the installation up to end of step 3 where ...
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Fail install minikube

Getting the following error message, using Windows+VirtualBox C:\Users\x>multipass launch minikube --name minikube -vvvv [2023-10-25T11:08:20.164] [trace] [k8s1] Got VMState: running [2023-10-...
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Unable to see files in Ubuntu VM shared folder

I am using Try Ubuntu on a VM, I have not installed it yet as I'm not sure it will work for me. I created a shared folder in the VM shared folder- in my windows C:\Users\sfox\documents\images with ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 in VirtualBox doesn't run

I've been using Ubuntu 20.04 in VirtualBox with these specs for months. Today when I started the computer, I saw that it was not working and it was stuck at a black screen. First these boot messages ...
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download the img file of Ubuntu touch

I want to download the img file of Ubuntu touch to convert it to vdi and use it on virtual box or directly use it with limbo on android. Also I checked some answers and websites and all of them said ...
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ALFA AWUS036AXM usb wifi adapter generating xhci_hcd transfer error

Setup Ubuntu 22.04 (kernel 6.3.5) guest running on VirtualBox VM MacOS (Big Sur) Host ALFA AWUS036AXM connected via USB (Mediatek MT7921aun chipset). it is recommended for Linux The VM detects the ...
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Vagrant error when running vagrant up

I am getting the following error when I run vagrant up. I'm using Ubuntu 23.04 running on VMware. The host computer is Windows. ubuntu@ubuntu2304:~/DevOps/ansibleintro$ vagrant up Bringing machine '...
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internet unreachable on 22.04 post adding static ip configuration

I boot up a new virtual box ubuntu server instance - 22.04.3 lts from its iso image. At this point I am able to run commands such as sudo apt update and sudo apt upgrade, etc and they run as expected. ...
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Help detecting a USB plotter device to pass through on VirtualBox

I am using Ubuntu, but have a USB plotter I need to use occasionally that works best with software that only runs in Windows. I thought a good solution would be to use Windows as a guest in ...
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