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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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Vagrant NFS share doesn't show updated file if size doesn't change

When mounting /vagrant over NFS, a changed file on the host is not refresh on the guest if the size doesn't changes. Quick update/typo are not immediately reflected unless I make enough modification for the size to be different. I've tried to set…
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Ubuntu: Resize the root LVM(2?) partition

I have an Ubuntu virtual machine running in VirtualBox 2.2.4, and I created it on an 8gb virtual disk which is too small. So, I am trying to increase the size of the disk. So far, I have done this: Created a new larger virtual disk Added the 2nd…
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running setfacl on a vagrant shared directory

Trying to get a Symfony2 project up and running with a vagrant VM. I've seen a zillion articles on this, but getting the cache directory permissioned correctly is proving to be excruciatingly painful. In my Vagrantfile: config.vm.share_folder("src",…
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VirtualBox: grain table inconsistency

The setup in question is as follows: Windows 7 64bit host running VirtualBox. The guest machine is running Windows XP 32bit. After a power failure on the host box, the guest machine cannot boot and complains that inconsistency between grain table…
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VirtualBox - How to dynamic RAM allocation for Guest OS

VirtualBox Graphic User Interface Version 4.1.2_Ubuntu r38459 (installed with Ubuntu Software Center) Host OS: Ubuntu 11.10 Guest OS: Windows XP sp 3 (with guest additions installed) I have search on Google about this topic but not find any help…
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How to route traffic from a VirtualBox VM only over a VPN?

I've got a VirtualBox VM (both host & guest Ubuntu Maverick). My VPN provider uses OpenVPN to setup TUNs. I'd like to set things up so that traffic from the VM only goes over the VPN and is just dropped if the VPN goes down (it's happened).…
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Can't access VirtualBox host-only network from windows host

I've got two vms running on a windows host, each with a host-only network and ips in the 192.168.56.XXX range. One of them is running apache and serving some content that I want to access from my windows host. However, the windows host can't access…
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Connect to guest from host - Virtual Box

I have a Windows XP as guest OS on VirtualBox running on Ubuntu. Inside that Guest Windows XP, I have an instance of Apache running. Now I want to connect to that Apache from the host (Ubuntu). Is it possible? How can I do that?
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teaming with nmcli: bringing connection down and up again fails

On a centos 7 virtual box, I create a team like this: nmcli connection add type team con-name team0 ifname veteam0 nmcli connection modify team0 team.config roundrobin.conf [root@rhce1 ~]# cat roundrobin.conf { "device": …
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Vagrant not ready for SSH error on VirtualBox and Laravel Homestead

Vagrant Version: 1.6.3 VirtualBox: 4.3.14 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64 Bit I have been on this for a pretty good while now and cannot figure this out. I have my public and private keys setup and they work. I know they are not the problem at they worked fine…
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vagrant synced_folders and VBoxInternal2/SharedFoldersEnableSymlinksCreate

ok here's the deal I'm running vagrant(ubunttu 12.10) on top of windows 8 but everytime I try to create a virtualenv (python) from within my non nfs shared folder I get a 'Protocol error', turns out that virtualbox does not allow sym-linking by…
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Ubuntu inside VirtualBox is slow

I am running an Ubuntu instance on VirtualBox inside XP. Here are the details: Host: Windows XP Pro Guest: Ubuntu 8.10 Total RAM: 3GB RAM For VM: 1GB Total Video Memory: 128MB Video Memory for VM: 40MB Hard Drive: 200GB Hard Drive for VM:…
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Vagrant (Virtualbox) host-only multiple node networking issue

I'm trying to use a multi-VM vagrant environment as a testbed for deploying OpenStack, and I've run into a networking problem with trying to communicate from one VM, to a VM-inside-of-a-VM. I have two Vagrant nodes, a cloud controller node and a…
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Change the UUID of a VHD

How can I change the UUID of a VHD-file? My problem is that VirtualBox won't accept the VHD-file if it has already been added. But I am moving VHD disks between work/home and cloning them (and keeping them as VHD, not VDI) "at random". The…
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VirtualBox guest network lost after host disconnects

I am running VirtualBox both on a Snow Leopard OSX host machine and on a Windows Vista host machine. Whenever my host machines lose internet connection the guest machines seem to lose internet connectivity permanently even after the host connection…
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