[SOLVED] Cannot load guest additions on 12.10 Quantal
I have loaded 12.10 Quantal Quetzal 64-bit in Virtual Box (host is 12.04 64-bit). 12.10 is fully updated. Virtual Box and the Guest Extensions are the latest (4.1.18) from the VB website. The problem...
View Article[ubuntu] Barebones VM image for development
Hi : I'd like a barebone Ubuntu VM image for development and production use. The goal is to not have any extras in this image but only sufficient components to run a web app server in it, possibly in...
View Article[ubuntu] virtualbox disabling ubuntu host
I installed VirtualBox on Ubuntu 12.04 with no problems. But when I install virtual OSs (my goal is to create a virtual Windows network with XP and 2003), my screen "snaps" and removes all icons and...
View Article[ubuntu] Wireless dissapears when I boot Win XP as guest host on Ubuntu
Hello, Can anybody help please. I installed Windows XP under Virtualbox on Ubuntu 12.04 because I could not get the scanner on my Epson Stylus SX125 printer-scanner to work. I needed some scanning to...
View Article[other_os] VirtualBox running Android-x86 & Google Play
Hi, I'm using VirtualBox to run either Android-x86 4.0-RC2 live installation iso for ASUS Eee PC family android-x86-4.0-RC2-eeepc.iso or android-x86-vm-20120130.iso.gz (use at your own risk as usual)...
View Article[ubuntu] Virt-Manager, KVM and USB2.0
I have Ubuntu Server 12.04LTS hosting a KVM guest managed using Virt-Manager from an Ubuntu 12.04LTS Desktop machine. All software has been installed from the standard Ubuntu repositories and not from...
View Article[ubuntu] AppArmor problem with virt-install on 12.04
I've installed 12.04 64bit with virtualization package. when I try to create a virtual machine with Code: virt-install --name win7 --ram 4096 --vcpus=3 --cdrom=/dev/cdrom --os-type=windows...
View Article[ubuntu] VMware packages: malformed Release file
Hi, I'm trying to install VMware tools in my Ubuntu 10.04 Server guest, following these instructions: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VMware/Tools However, after adding the repository and running an...
View Article[ubuntu] Which are important CPU technologies for Virtualization?
There are lots of technologies available to help make virtualization better. You can do a filter search for Intel CPUs here. You can select which virtualization technologies you need. The question is,...
View Article[SOLVED] VMware Disk Mount: How to Mount Your ESXi Virtual Disks and Access...
Hi all, I found today a nice tutorial from DrDamnit to share: http://learnlinuxonline.com/vmware-v...ount-procedure It's based on ubuntu 10.04. It's good to know that there is a way to access virtual...
View Article[ubuntu] Win 7 64 host Ubuntu 12.04 32 guest
When running seamless mode, there is no way to launch anything. Nothing to see nothing, to do with the guest (Ubuntu). What am I missing? Thanks, Brad
View Article[ubuntu] LXC Container Store on Gluster
Has anyone had any luck storing LXC rootfs directories on Gluster storage? I have no issues starting a container if the rootfs directory resides on local storage. When trying to start it when rootfs is...
View Article[all variants] KVM/QEMU Subnet
I want to test a maas install via kvm/qemu/libvrt (using virt-manager). Is there a way I can create a subnet and install a maas host as dhcp owner within that subnet? I would prefer the subnet to use...
View Article[ubuntu] Issue installing VMware-vSphere-Perl-SDK on Ubuntu 12.04 64
I am facing hard time installing VMware-vSphere-Perl-SDK 4.1 under Ubuntu 12.04 x64 when runing installation script i have following error Code: vmware-vsphere-cli-distrib# ./vmware-install.pl...
View Article[ubuntu] OpenVZ kernel build error
I've been following this guide so far: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OpenVZ I've gotten up to the stage where I build the kernel image into a debian package with the "make-kpkg" command. It is at...
View Article[xubuntu] Shared Folders on Xubuntu
I have installed Xubuntu as a guest in virtualbox under PCBSD. I have installed Guest additions on Xubuntu, shared a folder from PCBSD. My question is how should I access the shared folders from...
View Article[kubuntu] Installing Win7 Guest Can't Find Device Driver
I'm shopping around for an answer here. I'm extremely frustrated. Trying to load a Win7 64bit guest on Vbox, and in the beginning of the install process I get an error "A required CD/DVD device driver...
View Article[all variants] Getting to the marketplace: Andriod VM
Anyone here know how to setup an Android emulator running from Eclipse to be able to access the Android Marketplace? I am a little confused about it. Edit: this is here because I figured it was a...
View Article[SOLVED] 2 Wireless cards/networks need to share directory
VirtualBox'd WIN7 Host Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Guest I have 2 wireless cards. I have 1 card connected to a public internet connection, this is the guest Ubuntu virtualbox. The other card is connected to my...
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