Screen Width issue during 14.04 VM on VirtualBox (Windows 7 Host)
I have a Windows 7 notebook and I installed VirtualBox 5.1.26 on it. I tried to install Ubuntu 12.04 as a Virtual Machine on VirtualBox, but during the keyboard choosing/test phase I could not resize...
View Article[SOLVED] Autostart VM's with VirtualBox 5.2.8 and Ubuntu 18.04
Hi All! I faced up with trouble with autostart VM on Ubuntu 18.04 and look like I've got the solution: VirtualBox installed from repos. Ver 5.2.8 Ubuntu 18.04 beta First point: The method described in...
View ArticleScreen flashing once or twice a second on 17.10
I am running Ubuntu 17.10 on VirtualBox 5.2.8 r121009 (Qt5.6.3) on a Mac Pro with MacOS 10.13.3. On some applications Ubuntu flashes to a grey background at a rate of once or twice a second. On Firefox...
View Article[kylin] 17.10 Boot hangs on "Spectre V2 mitigation: LFENCE not serializing. ..."
I'm running Ubuntu 17.10 inside a VirtualBox, Win10 host. It's been working fine for months. booting hangs at this: Spectre V2 mitigation: LFENCE not serializing. Switching to generic retpoline Usually...
View Article[ubuntu] Installing Windows 10 in VirtualBox causes Ubuntu to freeze
Running Ubuntu 16.04 with VirtualBox 5.0.40. I want to use Photoshop & Lightroom so I allowed 8GB RAM and 50GB of SHD for Win10 leaving the other 8GB RAM for Ubuntu. Established the virtual space;...
View Article[SOLVED] Unable to change screen resolution
Hi all KVM Host - Ubuntu 16.04 desktop Guest - Ubuntu 16.04.4 desktop Unable to change screen resolution on Guest. Changing to other resolution always drops back to 1024x768. Display resolution;...
View Article[ubuntu] Ubuntu 16.04 server + xen hypervisor + openxenmanager no connect
I have a fresh install of Ubuntu 16.04 server and have installed xen-hypervisor-4.9-amd64 from the default ubuntu repos. I also have a pre-existing client PC running 16.04 desktop that I installed...
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Hyper-V Ubuntu VM (17.10) crashing eventually
Hi all, The past few weeks i've been playing around with a Ubuntu VM, on my Hyper-V server, which runs docker containers. I've been running a few other Ubuntu VM's (without docker) for a while on the...
View Articleadding loopback adapter to virtualbox and disabling ubuntu tcp/ip stack
http://timita.org/wordpress/2011/07/...-on-windows-7/ Found this guide for windows, but doing the same in ubuntu is proving difficult ipconfig shows a loopback, but one does not show in virtualbox on...
View Article[server] KVM Errors trying to install Ubuntu Guest on 16.04 Server
I recently bought an offlease Dell R410 (2 x Xeon E5620s) and intend to use it as a VM host using KVM. System currently only has 8Gb of ram but have additional on order. The server is running Ubuntu...
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Failed to Load Kernel Modules
Hi guys, I have been attempting to install a different version of virtual box. I booted as normal, added Oracle PPA, installed and then removed a virtual box install using "apt autoremove --purge" Now...
View Articlehelp please my wifi doesnt work im runnin it from a virtual box
Code: ########## wireless info START ########## Report from: 26 Mar 2018 22:10 CST -0600 Booted last: 26 Mar 2018 00:00 CST -0600 Script from: 10 Jan 2018 20:04 UTC +0000 ##### release...
View ArticleCannot get vfio-pci to grab nvidia 980ti
I am running a clean install of Kubuntu 17.10 with the following hardware. I7-7700k 16gb ram ga-z270xp-sli Mobo GTX 980ti (pcie slot1) GTX 1050 (pcie slot2) I am desperately trying to switch back to...
View ArticleHow to create network interface virbr0?
I have happily run a virtual machine with functional networking for years, and I just found out the upgrade to Ubuntu 17.10 broke networking, due to network interface virbr0 missing. I cannot remember...
View ArticleQ: Best network device model for KVM
Hi ! What is the best network device model for KVM in terms of reliability - virtio, e1000 or RTL8139 ? VM had to run as router for years in unattended mode. Thanks in advance for any suggestion(s).
View ArticleDo not get any output from command VBoxManage list runningvms
Hello and nice day or night, maybe my Ubuntu Linux servers are still missconfigured yet: For example I do not get any output from the command "VBoxManage list runningvms" exectued by user dirk even if...
View Article[ubuntu] unlimited network connections to ubuntu desktop 16.04 host ? (vm...
I run various websites on my own windows servers and have recently started testing ubuntu 16.04 desktop on a dedicated computer with a view to running my servers as virtual machines on an ubuntu host...
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Ubuntu 16.04: Windows XP Guest will not launch
Yesterday I was working with the VM. Did a normal apt-get update / upgrade, and received a VB update. Seemed to install fine, but this morning the same guest VM crashed during start. Gets to the Win XP...
View ArticleBuild Gnome-Boxes from source Xubuntu 16.04
Hi, I like Gnome-boxes since it is simple and I do not understand the intricacies of virtualisation etc. I have the repository version via apt install gnome-boxes (3.18.1) However, I cannot get access...
View Articleapt problems R and Virtualbox
I've been using ubuntu since 2005 and I've noticed that package management has never been completely "sorted" - just by looking at the amount of problems people have with running apt with -fix and...
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