virtualbox

How do I connect to my windows server 2008 hosted on a virtual box?

Hello! I've hosted Windows Server 2008 Enterprise on a virtualbox and set up IIS7 with ASP.NET. Now I wonder what I have to do to be able to connect to the virtualbox from the computer I'm running the virtualbox on? I tried entering the ip supplied by ipconfig from inside the box; 10.0.2.15 which doesn't seem to work, like so "http:/...

Is it possible to remote debug a VirtualBox with visual studio?

I'm running different versions of our application on Sun's open source VirtualBox, is it possible to remote debug the app from the host OS with Visual Studio? The problem is that in Visual Studio when I want to attach to a remote machine I have to enter either a computer name or IP and the IP I get from within the virtual box isn't pinga...

Android on VMWare or VirtualBox

Can Android OS that is installed on actual devices be emulated in VMWare or VirtualBox. Are there any such distros or images available? ...

Network link between multiple VirtualBox machines

I am trying out a conferencing application (BigBlueButton). For this I created an Ubuntu virtual machine that functions as the application server. On this machine I can test the application by navigating to the app url (for example http://10.0.2.15). I also created a second virtual machine that should function as a client. On this mach...

"Unable to find a version of the runtime to run this application" running .NET app in virtual XP machine

I've written a few winform apps in .net 2.0 which won't run in a virtual XP (running from VirtualBox). I get the error "unable to find a version of the runtime to run this application" (.NET Framework Initialization Error). I've tried fixing the installation of .net and also installing v3.5. I think it's probably a security issue rathe...

How can I easily add storage to a VirtualBox machine with XP installed?

When I installed Windows XP on a VirtualBox machine, I made the hard drive only 10 GB since and assumed it would expand in size (as do hard drives in VMWare as far as I can remember, isn't this true?). In any case, I'm trying to install Visual Studio 2010 beta on this Virtual Box XP image and it has run out of disk space. Googling for ...

Need Ctrl+Break on laptop without a Break key

The crux of the matter: -new Dell laptop without a Break key. -VB6 and VS2008 IDEs use Ctrl+Break to pause execution for debugging. -I need a way to map another key combination to trigger a Ctrl+Break My setup may make this easier or harder but to be clear I am running Kubuntu 9.10 (latest stable) and WinXP in a VirtualBox VM. Obvio...

Linux Development C/C++/bash/python on windows-7.

Before resorting to stackoverflow, i have spend a lot of times looking for the solutions. I have been a linux-user/developer for few years, now shifting to windows-7. I am looking for seting-up a development environment (mainly c/c++/bash/python) on my windows machine. Solutions i tired - VirtuaBox latest, with grml-medium (very ligh...

Cleaning a Production Database for use in Testing

I'm building a local vm for doing web dev rather than using our on site development. I need a database locally, but I don't want to just pull down a production db and use that as it has information that, while not protected by HIPAA or anything, should not be available in the case of laptop theft. Are there any apps or recommended practi...

Why does browser sends HTTP GET requests that return empty responses?

I tried to post this question on serverfault but no luck so far. I have a local testing environment in a Fedora virtual machine. Strangely, resources (css and js files) don't seem to load. Looking at Firebug, I see that the browser sends the HTTP request with "Range bytes=0-". The server responds with either an empty 200 OK or an empty ...

How do I change the dynamically change the window size with Ubuntu on VirtualBox

Ive installed Ubuntu inside of a Sun VirtualBox. When I maximise the VirtualBox window the Ubuntu window stays the same size and does not dynamically grow with the size of the VirtualBox window. Ive seen this done before. How do I set it up? (And no Im not just looking for how to increase the screen resolution) Thanks ...

virtualbox get access winscp access from host (vista) to guest (ubuntu)

what worked fine is http://kdl.nobugware.com/post/2009/02/17/virtualbox-nat-ssh-guest/ so that i can connect to guest system using ssh with putty but winscp does not work? what i still have to install? ssh was installed on ubuntu apt-get, but what else... does winscp from vista need more ports? and if how to manage this?! ...

VirtualBox snapshots

Heres what happened. I had a snapshot on which I was working from within a linux VM. A friend requested a clean VM as a clone of mine. So I closed / shutdown my running VM, made a copy of the Disk1.vdi along with the snapshots ({uuid}.vdi). Then I restarted the VM and did merged snapshots, deleted my home directory and made a tar+bz2 fo...

View a vmdk file from Python?

Is there any way to view the contents of a vmdk file from Python, and to be able to read files from it? (I have no need to write to it). If not, is there any way to mount a vmdk file on a host machine, or generally any other way to look at a vmdk file without attaching it to a VM and running it? ...

Tool to Debug Guest OS in Virtual Box

I'm just cross posting the same question I did on virtualbox.org. http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=26702&p=119139#p119139 If not breaking any rule, I'd appreciate to kwon more about it since stackoverflow promisses to be more dynamic! "Hi, I did some search and could not find any tool to debug a guest system fro...

SQL Server communication between VirtualBox images

I have a WinXP host with VirtualBox 3.1.2 installed. I have a VirtualBox image called "hydrogen" on which I installed WinXP and MS SQL Server 2005 Express. I have another VirtualBox image called "helium" on which I installed WinXP. I am trying to create a ODBC DSN on "helium" that connects to SQL Server on "hydrogen" but it fails. All o...

python virtualbox API

please give some suggestions on how to control virtualbox from commandline from a python program using python virtualbox API.if u know any useful website ,please give its address ...

Linux Serial Port Communications Timeouts - VirtualBox passthrough

I am using Virtual Box USB passthrough features to attach a serial port to Ubuntu (/dev/ttyUSB0). This port is used to communicate with a 3dm-gx2 IMU. The same port works with the vendor supplied Windows code where they set specifically send/receive buffers and timeouts. I can't get the serial port to function from Linux (Need it for dep...

Python Virtualbox API

I have made a command-line interface for virtualbox such that the virtualbox can be controlled from a remote machine. now I am trying to implement the commmand-line interface using python virtualbox api. For that I have downloaded the pyvb package (python api documentation shows functions that can be used for implementing this under pyv...

Virtualising servers on Mac OS

I need to virtualise Ubuntu 24/7 on my Mac. Is there a lite virtualisation piece of software that allows me to run it discretely? I do not want an interface... I will manage via SSH... I have been using VirtualBox but it always insists on having a window open... can I run a guest OS as a service?? VMWare server looks suitable but it's ...