Questions tagged [virtualbox]
An x86 virtualization software package developed by Oracle (which bought Sun, which bought Innotek).
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How can I make sudo apt install warn me that I'm about to pull from Debian Unstable?
I use Debian testing and my sources.list.d folder is modern. I have debian.sources, unstable.sources, and experimental.sources. As suggested in the official documentation, I use an APT::Default-...
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How do I get a stand-alone, offline .iso or .dmg of Opera that a 'VirtualMachine' running Linux Mint 22.2 can open/read/install?
I went directly to Opera.com and the Download for Linux did NOT have a "Download offline package" option that the other platforms listed did. The Linux Download only showed:
"Prefer ...
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What's wrong with my attempt to upgrade virtualbox to "latest stable" version?
I have Linux Mint 22.4. Apparently this is based on Ubuntu 24.04. Normally I would ask this question in the Linux Mint forum, which is usually very good. At the moment it is suffering from an ...
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Operations fail with 'text file busy' on RHEL 6 guest with VirtualBox Shared Folders on Windows
I am running a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL6) guest VM in VirtualBox installed on my Windows 11 and working on a project located directly inside a VirtualBox Shared Folder (vboxsf).
The enviroment ...
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How can I find what’s using space in my root LVM (/dev/mapper/ol_wglsbi02-root) on RHEL / Oracle Linux?
I inherited two servers, a production server (wglsbi02) and a mirror/backup server (wglsbi01), that were originally set up by someone who has since left the company.
I’m not an experienced system ...
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How can I configure VirtualBox network settings so multiple Linux VMs can communicate locally?
I am setting up several Linux virtual machines in VirtualBox to practice for the RHCSA exam. I want them to communicate with each other for testing networking commands such as ping, ssh, and file ...
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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 ...
