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I’m surprised to still NOT see a build in feature to be able to utilized more then one desktop! I mean every popular OS has it build in! Apple Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris and I’m pretty sure many others… that’s really sad! any suggestions what would be a good suggestion for that? Solution: There […]

My co-worker has an old Mac, and needs to test something on Windows. His Mac is not powerful enough to run a VM, so he needs the ones I have. I have a few VMs that fit his needs.The solution I thought of was for me to host the VMs, and for him to connect

I have a live image of ubuntu, and I will be using it for programming. It came with a book, and the book mentions that it has to be used on a x86 based-processor. I have an AMD64 processor, so my question is will this difference affect any of my programming if I run the

I would like to make a VirtualBox .vdi image out of my hard drive. I’ve found howto’s online that describe doing this by first usind DD to create a .raw image, then using VBoxManage to convert the .raw to a .vdi. SO if my HD is 1 TB, this process (temporarily) requires 2TB of space,

I’d like to provide a guest OS with multiple CPUs in VirtualBox.  My host machine is a quad core HP Compaq and uses the Intel Core 2 vPro hardware. However, when I try to enable the setting in vbox, I get an error that VT-x is not available.  Is this something that I can enable

In a nutshell, i have a VM that ran out of space. I increased the size of the VM’s harddrive to be 4 times bigger but the OS partition is still only using 1x the space. I need to change the LVM partition to take up the extra 4x space but I don’t know how

I am currently running 8.1. I’d like to try out Windows 10 and if I like it upgrade. If not, I’ll keep running as I am. I’ve never used a virtual machine before: can Window 10 be used from a virtual machine as a “sandbox”, and if so how? Solution: You’ve already “tagged” your question

I have installed virtual box But when I tried to run it. It shows me an error as: I have been trying everything for whole day. Like there are answers related to this question as: VT-x is not available, but is enabled in BIOSVT-x is not available (VERR_VMX_NO_VMX) (VirtualBox) but enabled in bios, hyper-v enabled,

I have a mac host, and a VirtualBox Linux guest, currently using Bridged mode. I need to be able to easily SSH into the guest from the host. It would be nice to use a hostname, but a never-changing IP address would be fine too (currently, the IP changes with each new network I join,

Dime time ago there was in VirtualBox command-line a command with this syntax: VBoxManage controlvm <VM> dvdattach <filename> So attaching (inserting) a CD/DVD was as easy as: VBoxManage controlvm "MyVM Windows 7" dvdattach MyDVD.iso But now this command has disappeared.I have been browsing the VirtualBox Manual and all I have found is some storageattach command,