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Oracle VM VirtualBox is a desktop virtualization product for x86, AMD64 and Intel64 processor architectures.

Oracle VM VirtualBox is a desktop virtualization product for x86, AMD64 and Intel64 processor architectures.

The VirtualBox host software runs on Windows, Linux, Apple Macintosh and OpenSolaris hosts.

The host software supports a wide variety of guest operating systems.

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Bridging VirtualBox over OpenVPN TAP adapter on Windows

I'm trying to configure a virtual machine (VirtualBox guest running Backtrack 4) with a bridged adapter over a VPN connection. The VPN is is hosted by the cybersecurity club at my university, and connects to a sandboxed LAN designed for penetration…
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Xen vs virtualbox?

Is there much performance difference between Xen and virtual box?
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Can't connect to PostgreSQL on VirtualBox guest

When I try to connect from a PostgreSQL client on the host system to the PostgreSQL server on a VirtualBox guest system, I get a "connection attempt failed" message. The host system is Windows XP. I'm running VirtualBox 3.1.2. The guest system is…
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VirtualBox - use in small office and backing up

I run a small office consisting of a 8 man development team and a couple of managers. We're thinking of moving to a hardware setup whereby we have 1 single powerful server running several VirtualBox VMs - one for Samba fileshare acting as DC,…
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How to get decent NFS performance for workloads like git?

I manage a vagrant setup for our developers running OSX to manage VirtualBox systems for development. In order to support inotify inside the linux machine, we eschew the usual method of sharing directories with VirtualBox: instead, the Virtualbox…
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What's the best file-system for storing virtual machine images?

I'm planning how to partition my hard drive. I want to have 2 partitions - one for Ubuntu, the main operating system, and the other for virtual machine images, as I want to run virtual machines of Windows and MacOS through VirtualBox. My question is…
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What are the performance implications of running VMs on a ZFS host?

I'm considering migrating from ext3 to ZFS for data storage on my Debian Linux host, using ZFS on Linux. One killer feature of ZFS that I really want is its data integrity guarantees. The ability to trivially grow storage as my storage needs…
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Vagrant/VirtualBox can't resolve some domains from w/in VM

Just trying out VirtualBox & Vagrant and my initial lucid64 VM can't resolve us.archive.ubuntu.com but can resolve security.ubuntu.com, google.com and www.apple.com (but not apple.com w/out the www?!?!). The host that the VM is running in can…
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Xen vs. VirtualBox under heavy load?

Which performs better under heavy CPU and memory usage on the virtual servers, Xen or VirtualBox?
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Virtualbox centos no eth0

just installed a fresh centos-minimal and i can not get bridged network to work or any of the networks not even in host-only mode. when you run ifconfig there is no eth0 only a lo, also when you cat…
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EC2 VM import: VirtualBox

I would like to know if it's currently possible to import a virtualbox vm on the ec2 cloud, I have tried with a virtualbox vmdk but it did not succed. Apparently it is designed for VMware's vmdk files. Is there a trick I could use to convert my…
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Nested virtualization - is it possible?

I need to use Win10 with a server created with VMware ESXi 5.0. I'm going to install Debian 6.0 on VMware ESXi 5.0 and then install VirtualBox 5.0.14 with Win10 guest operating system. Will it work?
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Package a VM built with Vagrant as an OVA appliance

I've created a virtual machine with Vagrant and some provisioning scripts. Now I want to hand out copies of the fully provisioned machine to participants at a workshop. This workshop will be mainly about the software running in the VM and not so…
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Vagrant synced folders aren't case sensitive

For our web stack, we are moving from a Windows Server to CentOS. To facilitate development, we're utilizing Vagrant to run CentOS VMs locally. We're using Vagrant's Synced Folders feature to allow devs to use their favorite IDEs on their host…
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vagrant public ip not accessible

I have this config: config.vm.network "public_network", ip: "192.168.56.101", :mac => "0022334455DA" And after vagrant up ifconfig prints: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:27:12:96:98 inet addr:10.0.2.15 Bcast:10.0.2.255 …
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