Questions tagged [virtualbox]
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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How to restore a virtual system after accidentally removing all kernels?
I have seen answers for actual installs but am not sure this would work for Virtual.
Like a fool, I had not backed up the data on a VM I used at work. When I tried to upgrade I was out of space and ...
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VirtualBox fails to start machine after installing extensions
I just added extension pack and my Windows machines won't start. This is the error I get:
Failed to open a session for the virtual machine Windoze 7.
The device helper structure version has ...
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Access network share of guest on host
I use an Ubuntu 12.04 host system with a Windows 7 guest in VirtualBox.
The virtual Windows machine is member of a domain in which network drives are shared to it.
I prefer to do most of the work on ...
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Firmware Bug in Linux Ubuntu 17.10 running on VirtualBox
I recently installed the latest version of Ubuntu (version 17.10 Artful Aardvark) on Mac OSx (High Sierra version 10.13.1).
Everything went fine and Ubuntu works perfectly except for the video that ...
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Is it necessary to mount ESP at boot?
I recently dual-booted my laptop, installing Ubuntu 16.04 beside an existing install of Windows 7 (on separate hard disks). For convenience/curiosity, I also spent some time messing around with files ...
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[Firmware Bug]: TSC_DEADLINE disabled due to Errata; please update microcode to version: 0x52 (or later) [duplicate]
I created a bootable USB for Ubuntu 17.10 (with Rufus), and when I boot on it, then select "Install" or "Try without installing", I got this error :
[Firmware Bug]: TSC_DEADLINE disabled due to ...
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Apt-get update not finding servers when host-only adapter is enabled
I have this problem where i cannot update because it's just not finding the server. This only happens when i enable host-only adapter.
With only NAT, i can successfully update my server.
I'm just so ...
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How to use multiple terminals on Ubuntu server? [duplicate]
I am using Ubuntu server 16.04 LTS in MacOS device through VirtualBox.
How can I open more than one terminal and navigate through them?
I already came across a similar question asked here but it ...
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Trying to install 64-bit Ubuntu in VB, says it says it needs x86-64 CPU, but my CPU is 64-bit [duplicate]
When installing Ubuntu on my VB I am not able to choose 64-bit because the option is not showing up and yet my laptop runs on a 64-bit CPU. The system is not booting and it keeps on telling me
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end Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
This is my first time trying to do something like this so please excuse my incompetence. I've been trying to run Linux on a virtual machine.
When I created the new VM I chose the Ubuntu 32 bit ...
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How do I install Ubuntu 16.04 in VirtualBox with Ubuntu 16.04 as host? When I try installing it says there is not enough space
How do I install Ubuntu 16.04 in VirtualBox with Ubuntu 16.04 as host?
When I try to do that I get this message
You need at least 8.6 GB disk space to install Ubuntu.
This computer has only 0.0 B.
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VirtualBox Ubuntu 14.04 - vboxclient the virtualbox kernel service is not running
I've installed VirtualBox (with Ubuntu 14.04 Desktop) and Guest Additions on my Windows 7 machine.
Every time it boots up I get the following error message which goes away:
vboxclient the virtualbox ...
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Copying files from my /home in a rescue boot shell on VirtualBox [duplicate]
I have a Mac with a Ubuntu 14.04 installed in VirtualBox.
During an update I lost my login window. Someone suggested I should uninstall and reinstall guest additions but that sounds like too much ...
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Virtualbox 4.2 not booting any virtual machines [duplicate]
I upgraded from 12.10 to 13.04 and my Virtualbox-4.1 stopped working. So I downloaded the Virtualbox-4.2 deb for Raring ringtail from their website and installed it. When I start Virtualbox, it starts ...
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Error with VBox
Today I updated the kernel to version 4.14.2 then I run the Vbox then it said Error modprobe. Then error "Module vboxdrv not found in directory /lib/modules/4.14.3-041403-generic"
OS: Kubuntu 17.10 ...
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Virtualbox in Ubuntu 16.04 - Unity grabs Alt and Super key
This is something that was answered in the past already for previous versions, there are bug reports but nothing really solves it and it's still present in 16.04
If you have Ubuntu 16.04 Unity as ...
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Windows 10 on Virtual Box not working
Im trying to get windows 10 vm working in Ubuntu so that i can run adobe programs. It gets stuck everytime right here, whats up with that? Any ideas?
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Virtualbox, how to make guest wallpaper transparent?
Ubuntu (16.04) host, Windows 10 guest in VirtualBox. How do you make the guest (Win10) wallpaper transparent? Running seamless mode.
I've recently gotten back into Linux. I remember doing this with ...
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Why is my mount command failing in an Ubuntu VM?
I am on a computer using Windows 7, service pack 1.
On the host Windows system, I have done the following:
I have installed Oracle VirtualBox Version 5.2.0 r118431 (Qt5.6.2).
I have used VirtualBox ...
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share virtualbox os with multiple ubuntu users
i have an ubuntu install with user account of myself and my brother sister father. recently install windowsxp on virtualbox on myside. how can i let my other users (brother sister etc ) to have access ...
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Xubuntu 16.04 installer hangs at "Configuring system locales..." on VirtualBox
LTS Xubuntu 16.04.3 (64-bit) hangs while installing in VirtualBox 5.2.0 r118431 (Qt5.6.2) on Windows 10. See screenshot. The latest Lubuntu and TinyCore worked fine, (but respectively lacked ...
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The input is not being taken by the Microphone on Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
After lots of googling, I am fed up now. I am using Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS(32 bit) on VirtualBox 5.2. VirtualBox is installed in Windows 10(64 bit).From windows, microphone works very well. But in Ubuntu, ...
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Install linux-signed-image-generic for the latest mainline kernel
I installed the latest kernel with this script but now my VirtualBox doesn't work. When I start the current kernel 4.13.0-17 and run
sudo dpkg-reconfigure virtualbox-dkms
VirtualBox runs fine, so I ...
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virtualbox shared folder is owned by root and not writable
I have a shared folder between Xubuntu 16.04 (host) and Xubuntu 17.10 (guest). I have given write permission via virtualbox, but still I don't have permissions to edit the files on the guest system.
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Kubuntu boot into earlier kernel - set it to default? [duplicate]
I have Kubuntu installed in a VirtualBox (Windows host), but as of the latest updgrades it won't boot anymore.
I found an earlier kernel that works, though, and I want to set it to default.
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Internet is not working
I am using Ubuntu 16.04.3 in VirtualBox and the internet is not working.
In the beginning when I was trying to use Firefox it was not working, but I went in the Connection Setting and changed from No ...
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Can't start virtualbox ?
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WARNING: The character device /dev/vboxdrv does not exist.
Please install the virtualbox-dkms package and the appropriate
headers, most likely linux-headers-generic.
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Virtualbox USB Access [duplicate]
I am trying to allow my Windows 10 virtual machine access to my USB devices. This seems pretty straightforward, according to this. I need to install the Guest additions which I did by clicking Devices ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 Desktop hangs randomly [closed]
I have 16.04 (64 bit) running in a virtualbox VM (using VBox 5.1.8 now, but it happened with previous versions of VBox too). The only application I'm running when Ubuntu hangs is Firefox. I use Ubuntu ...
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In VirtualBox Ubuntu on Windows host can I specify that the Ubuntu guest uses the same MAC address as the host machine?
I'm on a secure network and when a non-authorized MAC address is plugged in the switch kills the network port and after a brief lecture IT resets it. VirtualBox seems to assign a different MAC ...
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Why does my VirtualBox VM not appear in VBoxManage list vms, but re-creation fails
I created a VirtualBox VM FreeBSD-11.1-amd64 with /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxManage createvm --name FreeBSD-11.1-amd64 which was successful according to the output
Virtual machine 'FreeBSD-11.1-amd64' ...
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3D rendering for Ubuntu on VirtualBox
In Qt I have an error:
GL version 2.1 with the gpu_shader4 extension is not supported by your
graphics driver but is required for the new OpenGL rendering backend.
Please update your OpenGL ...
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apt-get update hanging forever after 'Reading package lists...' and not completing
I have a VM guest running Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS on a Windows 10 host. I access it via Vagrant.
Recently, I updated VirtualBox on Windows, and didn't realize that my Guest Additions was behind on the ...
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Fix a firmware bug for Lubuntu
How to fix this firmware bug:
tsc deadline disabled due to errata please update microcode to version
0x52 (or later)
I'm using VirtualBox to install the image.
My CPU is Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-...
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VirtualBox release key after a few seconds
I am using Ubuntu in VirtualBox and it works pretty fine, but there is a problem that I am having since I started using it. I use Emacs and therefore, I use a lot of combinations/shortcuts/bindings ...
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Mount on a not empty directory [duplicate]
This may be the wrong topic since I'm working on Windows 7 with VirtualBox and my VM is an Ubuntu 17.
I'm trying to share a directory between my Windows and my Ubuntu.
This works fine with these ...
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Problems installing Ubuntu Studio 17.10 in VirtualBox
I've been trying to install Ubuntu Studio 17.10 in Virtualbox 5.2 using both Windows 10 and Ubuntu 17.10 host machines but to no avail.
When I attempt to install it using the 17.10 ISO it either ...
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Linux VM error: VirtualBox kernel service is not running after installing Virtual Box Guest Additions [duplicate]
I installed Ubuntu on VirtualBox today.
In order to have a shared folder with my host OS (Win 7) I followed the advise listed here:
Shared_Folder
When I start the VM now I get :
VBoxClient: the ...
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VBoxManage: error: Failed to create the host-only adapter
I've installed virtualbox version 5.1.20 and vagrant version 1.9.4 and then when I ran vagrant up, I got the following error
Command: ["hostonlyif", "create"]
Stderr: 0%...
Progress state: ...
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VirtualBox Ubuntu Server 16.04.3 Running on Windows 7: Can't access web app running on port 8080 from host
•I am running a test of "react-jPlayer" on a Ubuntu test server in VirtualBox.
•The app is running sucessfully on port 8080.
•I Verified this by opening a new terminal window with tmux and entering "...
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How do I set up internet connection in VirtualBox?
This question is not duplicate of this, because in my case, internet connection doesn't work on any version of Ubuntu as host (11.04, 12.04,.12.10), and the solution is different too, mine needed ...
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VirtualBox XUbuntu 16.04 - Bootloader won't start
I am using VirtualBox with XUbuntu 16.04. All was going fine before I install guest additions, but after the install, the OS doesn't start. I think it is the boatloader that fails (btw I am noob at ...
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Ubuntu Mount an NFS share into an another ubuntu VM via local-only connection
Over my host machine I have setup an NFS server with the following settings into the file /etc/exports:
/home/pcmagas/Kwdikas/C++/intelSGX/MyFirstEnclave *(rw,sync,no_root_squash)
Also to the host I ...
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No "eth0" listed in ifconfig -a, only enp0s3 and lo
So, I setup my Ubuntu box with VirtualBox, default settings - simple ISO image launch. After installing Ubuntu, I proceeded to test multiple programs, and everything was working fine. I have full ...
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Can't apt-get install software on 17.10 on virtualbox - git, ack, and virtualbox-*
I just setup a new ubuntu 17.10 from osboxes.org and trying to installing the following apps: git, ack, and virtualbox-* to get my bidirectional clipboard to work.
For some reason it doesnt find any ...
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How do I know login and password of my virtual machine
I use a virtual machine called 'RelaxEd' on VirtualBox (Ubuntu 16.04 amd64). After starting it I will be able to access localhost:3000 and then load the web pages. For some reasons I copied its files ...
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virtualbox extensions pack installation failed
I have been trying to install virtualbox extension pack.
so I downloaded its file from the http://www.virtualbox.org and i ran it.
but I encountered the following error:
Failed to install the ...
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Virtualbox ubuntu 14 - zbar barcode reader loads and camera shows indicator light, but see nothing
I installed zbar barcode reader on my virtualbox ubuntu 14.04. I loads as shown below and the camera indicator light also lights up, but I don't see anything on the screen. I only see the zbar logo.
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Virtualbox Ubuntu switching to virtual terminal problem [duplicate]
I am running Ubuntu within Ubuntu using VirtualBox. I want to switch to virtual terminal on guest system. When I press Ctrl+Alt+F4 within guest system, host system switches to virtual terminal instead ...
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How to run Windows 7 from real disk in VirtualBox on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
I have been having difficulty running Windows 7 from the physical disk in VirtualBox on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
Installed VirtualBox using the Software Center, and created a Windows 7 VM and empty virtual ...
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