Guests are users of a system that do not have their own identity in that system and have less privileges than a normal user.
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How virtualization affects Linux guest reports of CPU usage?
We have a Hyper-V guest with 4 virtual cores reporting 50% usage total among all the virtual cores. That is, this 50% is what atop and top report, with a complementary 350% of "idle". That means at least in theory, 12.5% of total virtual CPU…

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Windows users/groups - Anonymous Logon, Everyone, Guest - what is what?
During installing and scheduling connection via DB-links, I've come accross settings permissions for the libraries (DLLs) for the account/group Everyone and account/group ANONYMOUS LOGON. So far, I always thought that with Everyone, every…

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KVM Ubuntu USB Passtrough
I currently try to add a Hauppauge DVR Tuner (USB) to a KVM Machine. Both (Host and Guest) are running Ubuntu.
This is my XML Guest File:
https://pastebin.com/gBvFhsXs
I already tried to follow this therad: Mapping USB drive direct to libvirt KVM…

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hyper-v on w2012 - how to clone guest multiple times with same disk and diferent machine name
I have a Win2012 R2 server with Hyper-V that have 20 virtual machines (w2003) that use a base disk and diferential ones for each one, the vms was increased size with time and I need to start fresh again.
I see that W2008 R2 VMs guest support dynamic…

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No networking connectivity in KVM guests / VPS
I'm setting up KVM host on my Centos 6 Dedicated server. I've managed to get the VPS / guests built and running, but they have no connectivity. The IP's have been raised on the guests, they're using my bridge on the KVM (br0) but the IP's aren't…

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ping other machines in my LAN to windows 2012 r2 host - KVM ubuntu 16.04
Yesterday i create windows 2012r2 VM in my ubuntu 16.04 server using KVM. Now i can ping between guest and host and in vice versa. But other system in my LAN not
able to ping with the vm (i assign a static ip to my vm).
i used the below anser for…

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How to allow Guest Network access to internal server with port forwarding?
Guest Network prevents access to internal network. That's perfect.
However I have a server machine that is accessible externally. I have set up port forwarding to allow this. I can access the LAN IP within my network and the External IP: through LTE…

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How to create a symmetrical Host - VM setup
So I'm in a rather annoying situation where about half of the work I do requires a Linux based environment to work on, and the other half requires a Windows based environment. Unfortunately I need to switch between the environments on a regular…

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XEN Guest error cannot open display
[XEN - dom0] Ubuntu 12.04.5 server x64bit , using it on CLI Mode - no GUI installed
[domU - guest] HVM guest created via configuration file, I Determine the started DomU port attached with :
# xm list --long | grep location
but when i try to…

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Windows 2012R2 hyper-v guest diskless - boot from iscsi guide?
I am attempting to build a generation 2 W2012R2 hyper-v server guest that, configured with no disk or vhd , will select it's iscsi o/s disk via Microsoft dhcp and boot Windows 2012 R2. Note that I want the iscsi connection to happen in the hyper-v…

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XenServer 6.2 guest network configuration
None of VMs I tried to install can't reach internet. I have Xensever 6.2 installed on a server with single NIC, which can be accessed via 2 public IPs. XenServer can ping google.com and seems to be configured correctly.
Here's ifconfig output
eth0…

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Which CPU model to set for guest KVM when processor is Ivy Bridge?
For a KVM host with an Ivy Bridge processor, which MODEL should use for CPU>CONFIGURATION in Virtual Machine Manager? Ivy Bridge is not available.

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Xen hvc0 console size
Hello I got a Xen running using hvc0 for the guests. Everything works fine except for the size (lines and rows) of the console: It's always 80x25 what makes editing awkward sometimes. If the line one edits gets too long, the cursor jumps one line…

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Writing directly to a VirtualBox disk
I have a need to write to a VirtualBox guest's harddrive after a snapshot is taken (I cannot modify the original backing file (VDI, dd, whatever). I was hoping there was some way in VBox to modify the differenced snapshot disk through VBoxManage…

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how to setup VM with debootstrap
I'm having problems to configure a virtual machine with xen server.
following tutorial I made this steps:
make the lvm partitions (root, swap) on my host and format
mount root partition on /mnt
debootstrap --arch amd64 precise /mnt…

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