Questions tagged [virtualbox]
An x86 virtualization software package developed by Oracle (which bought Sun, which bought Innotek).
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Virtual Box to Apple Desktop Help
I have been having issue trying to download a virtual box onto my apple desktop that's running on Catalina (mac/intel processor). I have tried about 4 separate times and keep running into issues. ...
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Is a raw file created by qemu-img the same as a -flat.vmdk file in VirtualBox?
I'm trying to serve an image using PXE and I just want to make sure that if I convert a .qcow2 file into a raw file, that's the same as creating a fixed-size -flat.vmdk file in VirtualBox, because ...
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How to launch or open phpVirtualBox installed via pacman?
I just found a package called "phpVirtualBox" from Octopi and then I googled and found that you can install it with the following command:
sudo pacman -S phpvirtualbox
So I installed it, ...
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Why and how were KVM modules unexpectedly enabled in Ubuntu 24.04?
System: Ubuntu MATE 24.04.2
I tried to start a virtual machine under VirtualBox and received the following error:
VirtualBox can't enable the AMD-V extension. Please disable the KVM kernel extension, ...
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How do I create a shared folder in Whonix?
I'm on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and I'm running Whonix as a VM inside VirtualBox.
How exactly do I create a shared folder in Whonix?
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Fedora CoreOS: Can I shutdown instead of rebooting, after installing with coreos-installer?
When installing the system with coreos-installer utility, if the image contains an embedded Ignition configuration, after the installation completes, the system will reboot.
Question: Is there a way ...
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VirtualBox: Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)
I'm running CachyOS with a Windows 11 VirtualBox setup on it and it was working perfectly fine for months until today after I updated my CachyOS via the Welcome Hello App and now my VM doesn't work at ...
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Creating custom VM for OpenWrt in VirtualBox
I followed this guide for creating an OpenWrt VM and was successfully able to spin up a machine. What I would like however is to possibly be able to create a machine using customized architecture ...
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My system doesn't record last log in for users
I wrote a code to display last login date for every user on Ubuntu to help admins define which users are inactive, the problem is it displays every users last logins dates since 1970 (the output looks ...
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lastlog keep displays all users as **Never logged in** [duplicate]
I know most of them are system accounts, but even actual user accounts are shown as:
Never logged in
What should I do to fix this?
I'm using Oracle VirtualBox with Ubuntu, in case that matters.
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Why does VirtualBox segfault after an update on Arch Linux?
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After doing a pacman -Syu on a system I'm now experiencing that VirtualBox VMs are capable of crashing X11 and dropping me into a console shell.
I see this in dmesg:
[ 590.841154] ...
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Which file formats for VM disk images can be used under both VirtualBox and Virt-Manager?
As far as I can see, VirtualBox 7.x only supports the following formats:
.vdi
.vhd
.vmdk
.hdd
.qcow/.qcow1
.qed
The virt-manager 4.1 again only seems to support the following formats:
.raw
.qcow2
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My x86_64 cpu is identified by Fedora42 Beta as a 686 and refuses to boot from the Live Iso when installing with VirtualBox
Has anyone else encountered this bug? Or was the recent power surge enough to fry something that would allow my F41 vm's to boot fine but stop the install of F41 Beta...
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I am not getting the Login GUI on Kali Linux though my installation went smooth?
I have successfully installed the latest version of Virtual Box(VirtualBox-7.1.6-167084-Win) and then installed Kali Linux (kali-linux-2024.4-installer-amd64.
On initial installation everything worked ...
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Issue - Updating kali-linux-2024.4-installer-amd64 on VirtualBox - Errors while processing kali-desktop-base
I downloaded the kali-linux-2024.4-installer-amd64.iso Installer file from Kali Linux's website, allocated 100GB storage through VirtualBox, got through VM setup, and booting. sudo apt update worked ...
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