virtualbox

VirtualBox from an existing partition

I installed VirtualBox on my Ubuntu Hardy Heron installation, and I would like to use it to virtualize Windows for those rare occasions that I actually need to do something there. Unfortunately, I don't have an installation disk at the moment, but I do have Vista already installed on a partition (it came with the machine). Is there a w...

Internet Access in Ubuntu on VirtualBox

I recently installed Ubuntu on a VirtualBox VM ... it installed just fine (much easier than on VirtualPC). However, I'm unable to get internet access from the guest OS (ie. Ubuntu). Can anyone give me any pointers on how I might enable this? The Host OS is Windows Vista, and the hardware is an IBM Lenovo. Thanks! :-) ...

How can I allow incoming connections to a server inside of VirtualBox?

I have a NAT configured to run when loading up my favorite Linux distribution in VitualBox. This allows outgoing connections to work successfully. How do I allow incoming connections to this box, like, say, Web traffic? The IP address is 10.0.2.15. A ping request from my main box results in a Timeout. ...

How do I increase VirtualBox resolution past 800x600 in Linux?

No matter what I do I cannot get the resolution past 800x600. If I am using a Windows install in VirtualBox, I can get it to 1024x768. What is limiting me from doing this in Linux? ...

Virtualbox host-guest network setup

How do I set up a network between the Host and the guest OS in Windows vista? ...

Which is the best VM program for a programmer?

VMWare, VirtualBox or Virtual PC. What are the advantages and or disadvantages of each for a programmer? What is the best for Linux Guest OS, which is the best for Windows Guest OS's? ...

How do you port a virtual machine from VMWare to VirtualBox?

I've been using VMWare for a while and am very happy with it, but I would like to compare it with VirtualBox. Apparently the disk images are compatible, and I have successfully booted my Fedora based VM created by VMWare in VirtualBox... but the network is completely unavailable. How do you port a virtual machine from VMWare to Virtual...

Whats the best way to get started with server virtualization?

We recently bought a new rack and set of servers for it, we want to be able to redeploy these boxes as build servers, QA regression test servers, lab re-correlation servers, simulation servers, etc. We have played a bit with VMWare, VirtualPC, VirtualBox etc, creating a virtual build server, but we came across a lot of issues when we tr...

Detect virtualized OS from an application?

I need to detect whether my application is running within a virtualized OS instance or not. I've found an article with some useful information on the topic. The same article appears in multiple places, I'm unsure of the original source. VMware implements a particular invalid x86 instruction to return information about itself, while Virt...

PHP website, should I develop into a Linux distribution instead of Windows?

Hi, In few months I start a project in PHP and I am hesitating to do like usual : develop on my Windows Vista 64bits machine. Since I know few things on Linux, I think it can be a good way to learn by working on a Linux distribution. Do you think it's a good idea or not? I would run a VirtualBox with Ubuntu (on my Vista64bits). I was t...

Can't connect to VirtualBox guest through NAT -- connection was closed

Host system is Vista, guest named BoxInABox is Debian lenny. The guest is configured in VirtualBox settings to use NAT. To set up port forwarding for ssh into the guest, I followed the directions at this link: http://mydebian.blogdns.org/?p=148. On the host I did: vboxmanage setextradata BoxInABox "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/...

How do I distribute my slightly customized Linux in VirtualBox?

Suppose I've got some Arch Linux installation which I'd like to distribute among students with (sometimes very) basic Linux knowledge to make them able to compile C programs in an environment very similar to that in the university. (Things like Cygwin or MinGW seem to be inappropriate here.) I also choose VirtualBox as a holder for the ...

How to setup virtualbox for .NET development

I'm trying to make the jump to running my development tools in virtual machines and am wondering about any tips as far as setting up such an environment Some specifics: I am using VirtualBox. My host pc is WindowsXP I am looking to install Vista in the VM. I will need VS 2008 with all the standard stuff that it comes with I wi...

Why could VirtualBox not find a registered machine named Windows_7?n

I'm trying to change TCP/UDP of a virtual machine using VBoxManage setextradata. Whenever I type the command: sudo VBoxManage setextradata Windows_7 "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/guestEmule_TCP/Protocol" TCP I get the following error: VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 2.1.4 (C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsyste...

MAMP/LAMP native or virtual (Virtualbox/VMware)?

What is your preferred development environment ? Native WAMP/MAMP/LAMP (Apache, MySQL, PHP) on Windows/MacOS/Linux Working copy local, SVN/CVS on server IDE/Editor on the same system (Eclipse, Aptana, Zend...) Virtual/Native (Server on VM) LAMP on VirtualBox/VMware working copy in the VM IDE/Editor on host, access to the VM with ...

Will I be able to successfully run this Ubuntu (linux) setup in Virtualbox?

Have 4 DVI output. Seems I hopefully will have driver support on this. Details are sketchy online about supporting 4 outputs, but seems possible. My question is from the Linux group and Virtualbox pros.... Will the seamless method of VirtualBox allow me to use all 3 of my monitors for multiscreen. I'd like to stick with Ubuntu and run ...

How to connect Dreamweaver to mySQL running in Virtualbox

I'm having trouble connecting CS3 Dreamweaver to the mySQL db running inside Sun Virtual Box ...

Benchmark: VMware vs Virtualbox

I tested VirtualBox 2.1.4 and VMware Workstation 6.5.1 for later use as a development VM Host: Ubuntu64, 4GB RAM, Core2Duo E6600, Samsung HD502IJ Guest: Windows XP Home, 1GB RAM, 8GB virtual disk Benchmark Software: SiSoft Sandra Light, HD Tune What is your experience or suggestion for a VM mostly used for development tools (not as...

How to make a virtualbox image of running windows system

Is it possible to do this so that the image is transferred over network connection to some other computer? Or is it even possible to resize the partition on the fly to get rid of unnecessary amount of free space? ...

virtualbox ose windows binaries

Hello Sun's virtualbox windows binaries are under 'non-commercial' license so can't be used in any company. But source code is GPL. Is it any resource on the network that has a virtualbox compiled binaries for windows? Added a bounty to see if I can get a little more feedback. ...