Questions about Virtualizing Ubuntu or virtualizing other operating systems within Ubuntu.
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What should i choose? LXC vs OpenVZ
As an alternative to Virtualizing several Ubuntu Servers im looking into the possibility of using containers. But I am not sure if I should go for OpenVZ or LXC. Can anyone recommend one of them, or ...
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Add Windows programs from VirtualBox to the Ubuntu programs menu
I have been using Ubuntu for years now, but for a few months I got my hands on a shiny new iMac, while I had it I messed around with Parallels Desktop and fell in love with many of its features. One ...
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Pause Virtual Machine before host Ctrl+Alt+REISUB
Ubuntu 13.04 commonly crashes (more often than linux should at least and I think its linked to a problem with PS/2 error handling...) and this forces me to run Ctrl+Alt+SysRq+REISUB to reboot it. I am ...
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Virtual Machine Ubuntu 13.04 is Very Slow
I installed Ubuntu 13.04 in my VMWare (I'm using Windows 7); the problem is it's quite slow; it doesn't response quickly as opposed to native installed OS. I also installed CentOS & WinXP; they're ...
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Trying to install Ubuntu 13.04 i386 as a VM in VirtualBox, the system crashes upon completion
I followed numerous tutorials to download Ubuntu 13.04, and it continues to crash at the end of the setup. I basically followed this tutorial. I am prompted to restart my computer at the end of the ...
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The most optimal operating system to host virtual machines
I have a laptop Toshiba Satellite A505 with following features:
Intel Core i3 processor
8kB L1 cache, 64 kb L2 cache, 256kB L3 cache
4 GB RAM
500 GB HDD
I have used many operating systems on it. ...
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How to expand the ext4 primary partition size in a VMware Player virtual disk?
I have a VMware Player virtual machine setup, running Ubuntu 10.04 as the a guest OS.
The VM was created on a 20GB virtual drive, with a single partition for working space. Finally I got to the point ...
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In VirtualBox, how do I set up host-only virtual machines that can access the Internet?
In setting up virtual machines with VirtualBox, I often want the following characteristics
vm has a static ip
host can access vm without port forwarding
vm can access the internet
I can move ...
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Ubuntu on Virtaulbox - VT-x is not available [duplicate]
Since I couldn't load the boot loader after tons of trys, I decided to install it on a Virtualbox. I havn't tried it before and I'm still brand new to both Ubuntu and Virtualbox. The installation went ...
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What is LXC and how to get started?
I will appreciate if someone could introduce me to LXC and tell me how to get started with this technology? In which cases does it make sense to use, and in which should i stay away from it?
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How to check motherboard chipset? [duplicate]
I am trying to enable Intel VT-x on my Clevo W150ER. The processor is an Intel i7-3610QM and it supports Intel VT-x. However, I've read that my motherboard also has to support it, namely, the chipsets ...
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How to enable Intel VT-x? [closed]
I have a CLEVO w150erm, with a i7-3610QM processor, which supports Intel VT-x. However in order to use it I have to activate that option in the BIOS (or so that's what I believe) but I simply can't ...
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vmware workstation 9 on ubuntu 12.04 network problems [duplicate]
I have been using vmware workstation 9 for about 3 months without any problems. A few days ago I started workstation and it prompted me that vmware had to compile modules and install them into the ...
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Virtualize Ubuntu server 12.0.4 into 3 different containers
I have a dedicated server with 2 TB disk space, 16 GB memory. I need to virtualize it to 3 different containers (Public, private and DEV). I have been evaluating Open VZ
But it caused disk quota ...
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How to modify qemu-kvm bios.bin?
I know qemu-kvm use SeaBIOS as PC BIOS. I just want let vm created by qemu-kvm show a custom JPEG image during bootup. How to modify the file bios.bin?
I see the following command on Coreboot ...
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Host-only network with Virtual box and Windows host machine: cannot find device eth1
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VirtualBox network adapter name on guest machine is not fixed all the time, each time you have disable and enable host adapter from VB prefrences, the network device name post-appended number ...
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How to share a folder between KVM host and guest using virt-manager?
For some time now, I've been using virt-manager to manage my virtual machines. When I want to copy a file from the host to the vm, I have been using scp to copy via ssh over the network. This is kind ...
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Managing Virtualbox on Ubuntu Server
We have some Windows product testers that need versions of Windows to test on. I was wondering if there's a way to install Ubuntu Server, and then virtualbox, and then host these sessions over the RDP ...
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vmware causes reboot 12.04 lts
I guess one of the updates must of mess with my VMware installation. It was working find the other day.I tried using a previous kernel (3.2.0.39) and disabling networking within the VM. using 3.2 ...
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Installing Windows 7 KVM Guest on Ubuntu 12.04 Headless Server via Command Line
I’m trying to install Windows 7 Professional 64-bit as a KVM guest using virt-install with an ISO file on my headless Ubuntu 12.04 Server via command line. I’m using Putty SSH from a Windows machine ...
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3d graphics acceleration for 12.10 vm on Fusion 5.0.3 on MBP 8,3 running OSX 10.8.3
In order to run a code (netgen, a mesher that has been around for 10+ years), I turn off 3D acceleration (in Fusion VM settings). Otherwise it complains - some of the complaints include GLX . . .
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How do I resolve slow and choppy performance in virtualbox?
Both, Ubuntu 12.10 and 13.04 perform very slow when running in VirtualBox 4.2.12.
How do I run Ubuntu with unity or enabled transparency smoothly with VirtualBox?
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Moving an entire partition to a virtual environment [duplicate]
Here's the deal. I have a 240GB SSD split in half with Ubuntu 12.04 on one 120GB partition and Windows 7 on the other. (I also have a 1TB HDD, with Windows XP on a 40GB partition) I'd heard about ...
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Bridge networking is not working in virtual box 4.2.8 with ubuntu 12.04 host and ubuntu 11.10 guest
Very good article but there is a problem for me.
I am using virtual box 4.2.8 with ubuntu 12.04 host and ubuntu 11.10 guest. I am unable to setup bridge networking beetween host and guest. here i am ...
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How do I enable hyperthreading?
We have the following CPU that supports hyper-threading. Though Ubuntu doesn't recognize that each core supports 4 threads.
Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2407
http://ark.intel.com/products/64614/
The ...
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Run both at the same time, Windows and Ubuntu
I had read in some sites that it is possible to run two OS'es in the same machine at the same time through a Virtual Machine software, so you can switch Virtual Terminals with keyboard hotkeys and be ...
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Ubuntu KVM support GPU sharing or pass-thru
Can Ubuntu (12.04.1 LTS server) KVM support GPU pass-thru/sharing like VMware and XenServer? The guest OS can use the physical GPU 1 by 1 or 1 by many.
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New to Ubuntu; No icons after login
I just installed Ubuntu and am running it off of a virtual machine. I only get a blank screen after I go through the login process to the program. Any ideas what I might be doing wrong?
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managing XCP using xenopenmanager
ubuntu server 12.10 64bit.
i installed the xen server using the "apt-get install xcp-xapi"
trying to connect to host using openxenmanager but it keeps on giving me "[Errno 11] connection refused".
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Ubuntu inside virtual machine: ntpd or ntpdate or ??? to avoid clock drift
Problem: ntpd, when installed on a virtual machine running Ubuntu (I've had this on hosts with a variety of hypervisors such as KVM and VMware ESX) seem to be prone to severe clock drift. I haven't ...
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System image to be loaded to QEMU [duplicate]
Is there any way to take a snapshot of my current system and load it on another computer to QEMU?
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cannot make live snapshots on ubuntu 12.04 xcp-xapi
I have installed xcp-xapi on ubuntu 12.04, I can run VMs perfectly but I cannot make live snapshots, I receive the following error message:
xe vm-snapshot new-name-label=my_snap ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 activate Intel's VT won't load UI anymore
I have a Intel Core i5 64bits laptop with Ubuntu 12.10 as a single boot installed.
I want to install windows 7 64bits in the VM and to do so, I need to enable intel Virtualization Technology in the ...
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Unable to run Ubuntu on Virtual box: Kernel require X86-6PU [duplicate]
I am trying to install Ubuntu on oracle virtual box but I am not able to. I tried the same about a year back and it worked like a charm.
Here are the details:
1) Installed oracle virtual box version ...
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Managing windows virtual machines remotely
I have a very abstract and possibly naive question, nevertheless I am putting it up -
I want to develop a Ubuntu lab in an institute, using a client server model. I want the individual clients to ...
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Unable to connect to libvirt on Virtual Machine Manager?
I'm trying to install a Windows 8 VM using KVM and the Virtual Machine Manager GUI. Upon installing KVM and VMM, and starting VMM I get the error Unable to connect to libvirt.
Verify that:
- The ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit keeps freezing when using VMs [Using Lenovo ideapad g580 laptop]
I'm having an annoying issue with my machine that I hope someone can help me with.
My machine keeps freezing when running a VM under it. From what I noticed till now, it happens mostly when I save a ...
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How to access the internet from a virtual machine in Gnome Boxes?
I installed Gnome Boxes, created a new virtual machine and booted an ISO. The ISO boots up fine and the network inside the virtual machine got automatically configured by the distro (with dhcpd):
IP ...
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kvm error in syslog says cpu0 unhandled rdmsr
I have a server that hosts about 20 KVM guest machines. It's syslog is, at times, flooded with messages like these:
00:17:36 vhost-server kernel: [ 157.835078] kvm: 3138: cpu0 unhandled
rdmsr: ...
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Is it possible to have the remote host name appear in X11 windows?
I found that running applications over X11 from remote virtual machines give a lot better performance than VNC or Spice. However, it can get confusing when you have a bunch of windows open on your ...
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Virtualization on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
We plan to introduce virtualization on our 64bit Ubuntu 12.04 LTS server so that we can run, in different VMs, a file server for our staff and some development machines for our IT team (code ...
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Is there a virtual machine with direct access to CPU and GPU for gaming?
Sorry for the long question.
With the coming of Steam for Linux I may have been over optimistic and got rid of windows installation.
The problem is that I have about 100 Steam games that are not (and ...
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How do I run the Ubuntu Phone Nexus7 image in a VM?
Do I need to go through the device imaging steps with an ADT VM, a specific qemu configuration, something else, not possible?
How do I run the Ubuntu Phone Nexus7 image in a VM? Any of the above ...
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How to Run Dual Operating Systems, Windows 7 Primary, Ubuntu Secondary
I know how to install two operating systems, but the problem is, I only know how to set it up in a way that requires me to reboot the machine, and selecting an OS to boot up. So pretty much only one ...
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How to connect on VNC client to non-default display (:1)
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I'm working with a friend to run a virtual machine on a remote server and connect to it using VNC.
As he already have one VM on the :0 display, he put mine on the :1 display.
Issue
I ...
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Install Ubuntu Touch in a virtual machine [duplicate]
How do I install the Ubuntu Touch Developer Preview a virtual environment?
I have already downloaded the zip-files (phablet-flash -D -l -d manta). Is there any way to install them in a virtual ...
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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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How to use old Windows 7 install in Ubuntu?
I have decieded to convert my Windows 7 laptop to Ubuntu. I virtualized the Windows 7 install and I thought I read that there is a way to launch the apps that are in my Windows 7 VHD inside Ubuntu ...
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Will `sudo reboot` on KVM host gracefully poweroff guest VMs?
Currently I manually poweroff each KVM guest before rebooting the host. However, this is getting old and now I am up to about 20 guest machines.
Can I trust Ubuntu Server 12.04 to do the Right Thing ...
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Improving virtual Ubuntu hdd performance running on Windows host
I have a Windows 2008 R2 server with:
1 x 80GB SCSI, partitioned:
100MB reserved
79GB NTFS windows
2 x 1TB SCSI HDD running in a hardware RAID 0 striped configuration, partitioned:
7GB RAW (left ...
