virtualbox

What is the advantage of using Python Virtualbox API?

what is the advantage of using a python virtualbox API instead of using XPCOM? ...

Send Keyboard Input to VMWare from C#

Hi. I want to send mouse clicks and keyboards keys to a window running a virtual machine such as VMware or VirtualBox. I want to pilotate it from the host OS, from an application written in C#. I can move and click the mouse. But I can't send keyboard input. I tried with SendKeys but it doesn't work. With every other "normal" window, i...

virtualbox - debian with no-ip

Hi. I have VB on my XP SP3. I am running one guest OS, Debian. I installed it using the 150MB, and everything seems to work fine. I am using 3.1.6 VB The purpose of this server is running php, mysql and django project. So I need access both locally and externally. I usually do it with my no-ip. I have experience with Ubuntu server, and...

make mongrel_rails (localhost:3000) visible to a virtual machine

I develop rails in ubuntu and i just set up a virtualbox windows xp virtual machine for IE testing. I'd like to be able to run mongrel_rails in ubuntu and then jump into the vm to check it out, so i can jump back, make a change, jump into the vm again, reload the page and test it, etc. Is this possible? In this sort of situation in ...

Does Delphi 2006 work inside VirtualBox?

I'm getting a lot of error messages, as well as slow performance. ... Is there a workaround? (I heard Delphi 2007 does not work inside VirtualBox.) ...

Use 64 bits COM objects from 32 bits process

I'm using the virtualbox api that uses COM on windows. If you have a 64 bit OS it will install the 64 bit version and the COM interfaces will be accessible to 64 bit clients but not to 32 bit ones. I'm told this is a COM limitation but I have seen ways to use dll32 to "publish" 32 bit interfaces on the registry, so 64 bit processes can c...

libvirt and VirtualBox / Getting Started

I'm trying to get started on libvirt with VirtualBox as a virtualization solution. I installed everything and VirtualBox itself is running when using their VBoxHeadless command. However, libvirt fails to connect to VirtualBox: # virsh -c vbox:///session libvir: error : could not connect to vbox:///session error: failed to connect to the...

easiest way to convert virtualbox snapshots to tree view

HI all My virtual box snapshot view is like this Name: Snapshot 2 (UUID: cb45aef4-54d4-4c4e-ad3e-dd7cccb6103a) Name: s131 (UUID: 8ec30c82-7796-4e51-8161-979f1b95fb0f) Name: s131 (UUID: 42066f33-969b-41f3-a779-7f6e2c45ea2c) Name: s131 (UUID: d71b9bc5-b862-46b5-ae4d-f88d3dd9756d) Name: s131 (UU...

Developing on Windows -> Deploying on a Virtual Machine?

Is there an easy way to integrate with VirtualBox such that I could develop under the host, Windows, and deploy and run scripts via a mounted folder in a guest linux system? I'm looking to develop for Linux under Windows, kind of. ...

The ultimate browser testing machine...

Hi All, What would be the ultimate web application browser compatibility test machine be? The testing environment would be (XP: IE6,FF3.6), (XP: IE7,Chrome), (XP: IE8,Safari), (MacOsX: Safari, FF3.6, Chrome), (Ubuntu: FF3.6, Chrome) Of course I want it all in one machine, my initial thought was Using a MacOsX as a host machine and use ...

VirtualBox Port Forwarding Not Working

I have an Ubuntu 10.04 Host running VirtualBox with a Guest Ubuntu Server 10.04 set up. My host machine is behind a linksys router. I would like to use the VM as a web server (to the outside world). I have NAT networking between the host and guest machines, and used port forwarding (guide here) to foward port 8888 on the host to port 80...

webgl running in a virtual machine on old hardware

Hi to all, I have a problem: I'm running a kubuntu10.04 in a virtualbox appliance. I've installed on it all the updates and the virtualbox guest additions. The host os is a windows xp: it runs on a thinkpad t60 with a very old ati x1300 graphic card. With the right windows driver this graphic card let me use opengl acceleration. On vm, ...

ORB forwards to a wrong location

I have an orbd started at a virtual host (with the IP A), with some remote object registered. Box that hosts virual boxes has IP B. When client tries to connect to the ORB at A to acquire the NamingContext, ORB replies with a LocationForward message poiniting to host B and port 1049 (like if another ORB would be started at that host). Na...

Make Windows application work on Mac OS X

Please suggest ways to deliver Windows application (.NET) to Mac OS X. Mono isn't an option, I'm looking for a solution that requires no code changes. I'm considering VirtualBox virtualization (http://www.virtualbox.org). Any other suitable options? Thanks! ...

Can I tell Virtualbox to use one of my ethernet cards?

I have a laptop with the standard wireless and wired cards, I would like the host system to use the wireless connection and the vm machine to use the wired connection. The point is that at the wired connection I can get a public, routable IP address, and I need that for my vm, while the host can work with the private IP. ...

Using virtualbox internal network with guest OS Ubuntu

I want to use virtualbox internal network with two Ubuntu guest OSes, but I can't connect to internal network. I tried do it with two Windows guest OSes it worked very well. ...

Problem while running Asterisk in Virtual box

I have installed the Virtual box. So in that I have install debian OS in the Virtual machine. In that debian OS I have tried to install the Asterisk. That asterisk also installed successfully. But after installing the asterisk if I call registered number which is register in the extensions.conf file, that time asterisk is not working cor...

ORA-12505: TNS:listener does not currently know of SID given in connect descriptor (DBD ERROR: OCIServerAttach)

I created a Windows 2003 R2 Virtual Machine running on VirtualBox and I installed Oracle (10201_database_win32). I assigned a static IP on the Virtual Ethernet too. Everything worked great right after installation. I listed(lsnrctl services) the services the listener knew right after installation and the result was: LSNRCTL for 32-b...

Share a VPN connection made in a VirtualBox guest, with the host OS?

I am running VirtualBox 3.2.6 on Fedora 13 and have one guest OS installed (WinXP). I can only connect to my VPN at work through windows, so I would like to be able to connect to VPN in the guest (windows) OS and then be able to go back to the Fedora host and work, seemlessly connected to the VPN inside the guest. Is this possible? How ...

Running OSX MAMP test server on VirtualBox Windows 7

I have MAMP server and several test sites installed on my OSX 10.6.3. I just installed Windows 7 on a VirtualBox virtual machine. I have managed to successfully share folders to the Windows installation, but I am wondering if I can run my MAMP sites in Windows without installing a different Localhost there. Does anyone know if this is p...