[all variants] Linux Mint 17 Cinnamon only runs in software rendering mode in...
When trying to run Linux Mint Cinnamon 17 as a guest in KVM, the following warning is displayed: Quote: Cinnamon is currently running without video hardware acceleration and, as a result, you may...
View ArticleAny boards dedicated to qemu, kvm virtualization discussion?
I am sorry to be asking so many questions here about basic virtualization problems. But I don't know of any boards dedicated to qemu, kvm. Does anyone know any?
View Articlevirtmanager/libvirt//kvm/qemu/spice mouse side buttons not working in guest
Hello thanks in advance. Is it possible to get the side buttons on a mouse to work within a guest of kvm/qemu ? I am using virtmanager to create guests. On the viewing host I have a mouse that has side...
View Article[ubuntu] I need help
I am still figuring out how to use Ubuntu, could anybody give me any pointers?
View Article[ubuntu] Problem: Teamviewer will not work on Ubuntu
I've tried to load team viewer on my computer so my husband could take a look at my computer from another location without him leaving where he is because he's sick but he wants to help me. Anyways, I...
View ArticleVirutal Box - Setting > System > Base memory greyed out
Hi All, A friend has Ubuntu 14 desktop as the main OS and is running XP in the Oracle Virtual Box. We want to increase the RAM available to XP but that setting is greyed out in the VM manager. XP is...
View ArticleHiDPI scaling rMBP 14.04 Parallels
I recently installed 14.04 on my rMBP 15" early 2013 through parallels tools, so its running in a vm. I enabled retina resolution on the options for the VM, and the resolution is 2880x1800, but when I...
View Article[xubuntu] VBox Shared Folder Not Browseable
I'm running Xubuntu 12.04.4 as the host and have installed a copy of Xubuntu 14.04.1 as a guest, with my home folder on the host (/home/jk) set up as a permanent shared folder, not read-only, and...
View Article[ubuntu] Seeking feedback on easy-to-use VM client for web server
I have a project I am getting into and am looking to find if VirtualBox is still the preferred VM client. I want to set up a virtualized web server (not 100% which distro yet, depends on what the...
View ArticleKVM PCI Pass-through Virtual Machine Manager Error starting domain
Ubuntu 14.04 with KVM set-up, attempting PCI Pass-through of an AMD Radeon card to a Windows 7 VM. The VM was created using Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) and runs. But once I add the PCI Host Device...
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Host Kernel Panic after resume from suspend
I have my desktop current acting a kvm host and I discovered to great dismay that resuming from a suspended OS and starting up a kvm instance will result in a Host KP every time. Researching the issue...
View ArticleProblem with AWS EC2 c3.large with Ubuntu 14 HVM virtualization
There is a problem with the combination of Ubuntu14 HVM and c3.large. In /var/log/syslog this type of error outputs every minute: Code: kernel: [ 1152.732091] xen:balloon: reserve_additional_memory:...
View Articlemultiple vm images on single LUN
Newbie (linux and kvm) been reading up on kvm, qemu, libvirt, virsh. I have successfully set up my first ubuntu server (going headless to learn the hard way). I have configured SSH, and setup an iscsi...
View Articlevmware horizon client 3.1
vmware recently released horizon client 3.1. In their blog it states to get with your hardware manufacturer for the linux client. You cannot download it from their site even though they state one is...
View Articlerestarting guest nodes help!!
I let the system upgrade to LTS 14.04. The computer ran out of disk space, and crashed. I was able to boot the system of a new install thumb drive into recover mode. I able to recover /var/lib/libvirt...
View ArticleDual boot win8 and ubuntu and virtualizing Kali Linux
In a week or so I'm going to have a new laptop and I wanted to begin using Linux as my primary OS but while I get used to it I'd like to still use win8. Then I want to put in a VM Kali Linux and use it...
View Article[ubuntu] Cant upgrade Virtualbox on Ubuntu 14.04.1
I have Ubuntu 14.04.1 running Virtualbox 4.3.10-dfsg-1 that was installed from the repos. I have started having problems with one of my vms (Utopic) and noticed that the current version of Virtualbox...
View Article[ubuntu] Ubuntu 12.04 on VirtualBox 4.3.6 Could not apply the stored...
Hi all, I tried changing the video settings for this virtual machine to enable 3D acceleration. When I booted up the virtual machine, the screen was stuck at 640x480 resolution (my computer has a...
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KVM - how to create "internal networks"?
In kvm/qemu, how do you create VirtualBox-style "internal networks"? If using VirtualBox, you would easily be able to do something like this (from a dedoimedo tutorial article):...
View ArticleGuest can't detect USB
Hi all, host Ubuntu 12.04 64bit guest Win7 Oracle VirtualBox Epson Perfection 3490 photo scanner I have encountered the problem making Win7 to detect the scanner and tried several days without a...
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