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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Ubuntu VirtualBox SSH between two machines Permission Denied (Public key, Password)

I have 2 Ubuntu virtual machines on same network with Internal network cards. Both machines can ping each other. both have port TCP/22 open for ssh. I can't SSH either one from each other. Error I get ...
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VBoxManage guestcontrol permission error

I have a Ubuntu guest installed on virtualbox of a Ubuntu host. When I try to run a command from the host on the guest, I get a permission error: max@Ubuntu1:~$ VBoxManage guestcontrol Ubuntu2 run ls ...
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Traffic going through default interface when there is a static route available

I have a host only VirtualBox network that I'm trying to interact with. The routes on my host seem to be configured properly but I can't interact with vboxnet. When I traceroute, it seems that ...
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Test running DevStack on Ubuntu Server 16.04

I am new to the OpenStack technologies so, in order to get familiarized, for the last two days I am trying to test run the DevStack single node installation on a 16.04 Ubuntu Server virtual machine on ...
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Create Ubuntu Installation from Virtual Machine? [duplicate]

17.04 has just been released and for a few reasons I don't want to upgrade, but rather I'd prefer roll back to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. I have a VirtualBox VM running 16.04 which is partially setup in that ...
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VirtualBox screen resolution WITHOUT guest additions

I have read many posts about screen resolutions for Ubuntu as VirtualBox guest. May be I failed to read the good one... So. I "just" want to make more screen resolutions available WITHOUT installing/...
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connecting to a single remote windows application 16.04

It seems it was possible to do this at one point with winconn, but it is not available for 16.04, and it seems remmina doesn't work with the remote app tool for Windows. Does anybody know about a ...
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Opensource Virtual box Licence [closed]

Can I use virtual box that is available in ubuntu software center commercially ?
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Having difficulty using a shared folder (/shared) containing a Windows virtual machine across users

Background: On my Ubuntu machine, there are two user accounts. In an attempt to allow easy sharing of files and mutual access to virtual machine files, I created a folder called shared at the root ...
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Why can't I ping the IPv6 loopback in my Vagrant Box?

I watched a video tutorial about the loopback address. I learned that 127.0.0.1 is the IPv4 loopback address, localhost also points to IPv4 loopback address, and ::1 is the IPv6 loopback address. ...
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Install ubuntu 16.10 into Oracle VirtualBox v5.1

I downloaded the latest version of Oracle VirtualBox for Windows and installed it (version 5.1.20). Then I downloaded Ubuntu 16.10 ("Yakkety") from the Oracle Linux distributions page. Note that the ...
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Set up Oracle Virtualbox LAN-ONLY Network

I need to set up Oracle VM Virtualbox in such a way that some of my virtual machines connect strictly to the LAN. Not to be confused with the WAN; these virtual machines should have no outside ...
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constantly check if the virtualbox is started or still booting up from a script

I am writing a shell script to start a virtualbox (ubuntu). After the command I want to put a for loop to keep checking the status of virtualbox and the script comes out of the loop only after the ...
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Jumping black screen at Ubuntu 16.04 on VirtualBox 5.0.20

I'm installing Ubuntu 16.04 on VirtualBox 5.0.20 at Windows 10 and I had a resolution issues which was solved by pressing Host Key + F1 and Host Key + F7. After it I tried to install and configure ...
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apt-get update gives bzip2 error on fresh Ubuntu 12.04(LTS) in Virtual Box version 4.2.18 [duplicate]

A fresh install of Ubuntu 12.04(LTS) onto Virtual Box 4.2.18 seems to go well, however, I receive a bzip2 related error when trying to update. I was hoping a seasoned Ubuntu expert could help me ...
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Webcam in VirtualBox (Ubuntu Guest/Ubuntu Host)

I have already read the following questions: https://askubuntu.com/questions/126399/unable-to-start-webcam-in-ubuntu-virtual-box Use my webcam with Ubuntu running in VirtualBox Integrated webcam ...
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setup test server ubuntu on virtualbox on window

I am trying to setup a test web server My machine is a windows 10 I installed virtualbox -> then ubuntu -> mysql -> apache2 -> php I am able to test like this in my ubuntu http://localhost/info.php ->...
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Windows 7 -> Ubuntu 16.04 via VirtualBox

I installed Ubuntu 16.04 via VirtualBox, it seems okay at first, but here comes the problem: there is two way mouse can interact in VirtualBox, integrated mouse and there's the other way, but it doesn'...
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ubuntu server does not get ip on restart

i migrated a vm (virtual box) with ubuntu server installed to a new host. Now it always fails to setup the network on boot. After reboot i always run /etc/init.d/networking restart. After this the ...
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Is it possible to switch from vm to dual boot without losing the files from vm?

I am currently using vm, but it's having performance issues. I know that dual booting linux would give me better performance, but I have a lot of necessary things installed in the vm that would be a ...
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Ubuntu Server 15 terminal resolution

Running an Ubuntu Server 15.10 as a guest VirtualBox VM, on a Windows 10 host. Default terminal resolution is too small and messy, and I want to maximize the terminal or at least get it to a bigger ...
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Unable to launch virtualbox GUI via terminal on newly created user account

$ virtualbox Returns the error below when trying to launch virtualbox GUI on secondary account. Can someone please help me resolve this? The user has already been added to the sudo, vboxusers and ...
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sudo Virtualbox returns "Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile" error 17.04

So I just installed ubuntu 17.04 and launch Virtualbox as sudo for the first time and I get the following error: $ sudo virtualbox Qt WARNING: QStandardPaths: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set, defaulting to '/...
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how to allow VMs and host ping each other?

I'm trying to set up a few VMs of ubuntu on my windows 7 machine. I need the machines to be able to ping each other and I would like to assign them a FQDN. The purpose of this project is to set up a ...
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Ubuntu 17.04 ubiquity claims not enough space to install

I attempted to install Ubuntu 17.04 after verifying I have a good ISO in a Virtualbox (v.4.3.36) VM running on a Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS host today (intending to install over top of a Semplice64 VM ...
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virtualbox in Ubuntu host no internet connection

My hair is in fire trying to make Internet connection work in guest OS. I have Ubuntu 12.10 machine with VirtualBox 4.1.18 installed from Ubuntu Software Center I set PC-BSD and FreeBSD to work as ...
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VirtualBox VM's menu not visible, can't insert Guest Additions media

Usually in VirtualBox I can insert a "Guest Addition CD image" by selecting a menu item. In the same menu I think I remember some view options were available, for instance to allow free resizing. ...
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Backtick (Grave accent) button sticking

I have Ubuntu 12.04 running in a Virtual Box virtual machine, on my Windows 7 32bit system. It has been working great, except that the backtick/tilde button sticks(not physically). When I hit the ...
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64-bit Linux virtual machine guest on a 32-bit host

I'm trying to find a way to use a 64-bit Linux virtual machine (I'd like to use Ubuntu 16.10-amd64 ISO from Ubuntu official website) through Oracle VirtualBox on my laptop. My laptop has Windows 8 32-...
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Virtual Box bridged adapter find real machine IP

I want to ask if is there a method to find in my network the real IP of a machine which hosts Virtual Box machines with bridged network adapter. The virtual machines gets real dhcp IP's from the ...
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Why I lost my connection after configurating my own network?

I have to create my own network between three virtual machines. One would be the machine that will act as the host and the rest will be connected to it. The three virtual machines that I have to ...
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Cannot access basic functionality Ubuntu 16.04

I have installed Ubuntu 16.04 on VirtualBox on a Windows host. Unity doesn't load completely when I login. I am not able to access the Launcher nor am I able to open the terminal. All that I am able ...
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No sound in 12.04 on VirtualBox

No sound when installed in VirtualBox. When I boot from the live CD in Windows, sound works fine on my speakers. When in boot the live CD in VirtualBox it does not see my speakers. In sound properties ...
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Error: bcap library not found

During compiling of reaver-wps in Ubuntu 14.04 virtual machine on windows 7 32-bit host I received the error error : bcap library not found. I already installed sqlite3 , libsqlite3-dev , libcap-dev, ...
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VirtualBox does not capture mouse/keyboard

I have used VirtualBox and Ubuntu for years. I'm pretty familiar with both. So, I am used to what it means to capture the mouse/keyboard. I do not have to do this very often though. Recently (...
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Mouse cursor disappearing (but still being captured) on VirtualBox [duplicate]

Host: Mac OSX 10.9 Guest: Ubuntu 13.04 VirtualBox: 4.3.4 (just updated) I'm having issues when I install guest additions (via device > add guest additions) at the very beginning it tells me that it ...
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VirtualBox has to compile on every boot

I have to compile VirtualBox on every boot manually by running sbin/vboxconfig.sh otherwise, it doesn't run what's a permanent solution to this problem?. My kernel version is 4.4.0-72. srseven@...
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Does Ubuntu keep a backup of /home folder?

I am running Ubuntu-server-16.04 in VirtualBox. I was trying to delete a folder in home directory and instead of running: rm -rf folder_name I run: rm -rf * and deleted everything. This maybe ...
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I cannot raise ens34 on ubuntu 16.04 server vm[Failed to start raise network interfaces]

I installed vmware fusion on my PC, and installed ubuntu 16.04 server vm through vmware Then I added another Nic through vmware When I boot the vm, I can only saw one dhcp Nic ens33(eth0), so I ...
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How get a bootable ISO image, simply

I have Kubuntu 16.10 virtualized with VirtualBox (host PclinuxOs) and I'd like to get a bootable ISO of it. I tried PinguyBuilder, but the ISO image is not bootable with virtualbox. (After 7/8 sec, ...
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Permission denied on start-dfs.sh

I am trying to create a 2-node Hadoop cluster, following this guide. The one node is my Ubuntu laptop and the slave node, the 2nd one, is a virtualbox that also runs Ubuntu. I am doing in the master ...
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Sync home directory with Vagrant [duplicate]

I'm using the ubuntu/xenial64 Vagrant box. When I vagrant up with the default Vagrantfile I'm able to log in and get to work without needing to input a password via vagrant ssh. I land in the home ...
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Oracle Virtualbox Ubuntu Recovery

I was trying to run a bash script at at startup in oracle virtualbox ubuntu 16.04, so I added the bash file in /etc/init.d as well as in ~./config/upstart. When I rebooted my system, it is starting ...
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How to access localhost on Virtualbox host machine

I created a virtual machine on Virtualbox with Ubuntu 12.04 only to install a LAMP solution and use it with my host machine, but I can't access the localhost using the ip (10.0.2.15) in the browser . ...
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How to tell if I am running the latest version of Ubuntu

I downloaded Ubuntu into VirtualBox running Linux. My main computer is an iMac running OS X10.9.5 When I go into VB and check my settings it says that I am running Ubuntu 64 bit. Just want to know if ...
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Auto mounting shared folders with VirtualBox

I am using Ubuntu 14.04 on a VM using VirtualBox. As I often have to do development for work in both windows and linux, I have a shared development directory. The issue is that even with auto mount ...
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USB device not visible in virtualbox under 16.04.2 [duplicate]

I am running Ubuntu 16.04.2 and I installed Virtualbox as follows sudo apt-get install virtualbox sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ext-pack sudo adduser newbie vboxusers I then installed XP/SP3 and ...
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PhoneGap installment

I am trying to install PhoneGap off of this link: http://dasunhegoda.com/installrun-phonegap-ubuntu/797/ and I have a problem. I have gotten to the part where I have to install genymotion. I ...
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Linux kernel discrepancy 3.11 and 14.04 preventing me from using Virtualbox

I am trying to execute this command: $ sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r) Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done ...
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Dependency errors when trying to install VirtualBox 5.0 on 15.10

I am running Ubuntu GNOME 15.10 with GNOME 3.18 and I am trying to install VirtualBox 5.0 on my system, I have followed all the instructions in the Debian-based Linux distributions installation ...

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