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VirtualBox is Oracle's virtualization software for Intel and AMD. It allows running of Linux and Windows on a Intel Mac under OS X. It does not work on a Apple Silicon Mac.

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How to hit "right-control" in VirtualBox on a remote Linux system over RDP via CoRD?

I'm connecting using CoRD to a remote Linux system running xrdp. On that Linux system, I'm running VirtualBox. To escape from Virtualbox, I need to hit a "right control" key. Trouble is... I don't know how. Anyone have experience with this kind…
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Accessing an Apache server installed in VirtualBox from Mac

I want to install a linux debian in virtual box and on debian an apache webserver. After this, I'd like to access it form my mac via browser like http://myvirtualbox:80/myfolder. The goal is to "dry" test the apache configuration before performing…
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How do I change the virtualbox "Host Key"?

I'm not using an apple keyboard and don't have a Left ⌘. Can I change the "Host Key" to be the Right ⌘? How?
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How to automatically start a VirtualBox VM in OS X Lion?

I have a VirtualBox VM set up on OS X Lion. How do I have it automatically start when I log into my account?
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How to load .ova on Mac M1 chip?

I have a Mac M1 apple chip, so I cannot install virtual box. I have a .ova file I need to load and was wondering how I should go about loading this. My coworkers use virtual box and ubuntu within the virtual box, can I simply use multipass to load…
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Unable to boot from Mac OS X Snow Leopard DVD in Virtual Box

I downloaded Mac OS X Snow Leopard DVD from Apple Developer Connection website from this link. I am attempting to install it as a guest OS using Virtual Machine (version 5.2.10, current as of this writing) running on macOS High Sierra 10.13.4,…
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Maximising VirtualBox guest machine window size

I am running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS inside VirtualBox on a MacBook Air 7,2, but the guest screen window size is less than the host display size. I have seen a suggestion that this is possible by installing something called a Guest Additions inside the VB…
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Installed Snow Leopard on VirtualBox but can't install guest additions

My host machine is Windows 7. I installed Snow Leopard on VirtualBox but i am having problem installing the guest additions. The guest additions iso is mounted in /Volumes/VBOXADDITIONS_4. But if I run the install command sudo sh…
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Installing VirtualBox guest additions on v4.3.28 (IE no Devices menu tab)?

Using OSX Yosemite and VirtualBox v4.3.28 I'm trying to install guest additions. In all online sources it says go to Devices -> Install Guest Additions but in this version I guess there is no Devices menu. In all the screenshots on the help it shows…
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How to find out the version of installed VirtualBox platform packages?

I'm on macos Monterey and I cant verify whether the Virtual Box Extension Pack are installed or which version. I've looked in the VirtualBox Manager's preferences and could not find it. Does the OS register what is installed?
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virtualbox running win7 64bit, too slow

I have a MBP, i5 CPU and 4G ram. I run win7 using virtualbox and I allocate 2G ram for win7, only to find my Mac acts too slowly. What can I do for that? Am I allocating too much ram?
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How to install VirtualBox extension pack?

I downloaded the extension pack from: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads Got this file Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-5.2.14.vbox-extpack.gz To install it you have to go to File / Preferences / Extensions / Add In there, it expects you…
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How do you enable Oracle VirtualBox's autostart daemon?

The obvious gist from @reidransom didn't work for me.
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How to prevent the automatic startup of VBoxHeadless on Mac?

I Install VirtualBox for Mac but I do not use it. The VBoxHeadless process still takes a lot of memory. How to stop it permanently and prevent from the automatic startup?
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VirtualBox 5.1.22 on OSX 10.10.5 fail to start after install

I get the following error when starting from Terminal: VirtualBox: Error -610 in supR3HardenedMainInitRuntime! VirtualBox: dlopen("/Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VBoxRT.dylib",) failed: VirtualBox: Tip! It may help to reinstall…
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