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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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How to run VBoxManage.exe?

The file is located in Program Files/Oracle/VirtualBox/VBoxManage.exe and is used as a command-line interface with VirtualBox. I'm using it to convert the .vdi image to a .vdmk (for…
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How to increase the size of a VirtualBox Disk Image

I had created a Windows XP image disk. It is of 5 GB, but I would like to know if there is any simple way to increase the size to 20 GB.
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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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Virtualbox shared clipboard string size limit

Virtualbox shared clipboard doesn't work if I copy paste a large string from host to guest. Through some trial and error I determined it seems to break when I go over 512 characters of string length. Is this a know limitation? Can I increase it…
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Virtualbox: How to merge current state (snapshot) with disk image

We have a virtual server named Jira running under VirtualBox 4.0 (host is Debian Squeeze). At some point in time a VM failed to boot, so we had to boot from GRML rescue iso. Before doing that we have created a snapshot of VM. After fixing boot…
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After resizing a VDI in virtualbox, Windows 7 guest OS does not see additional space

After increasing the size of a VDI disk file in virtualbox (using VBoxManage), I found that the guest OS (Windows 7) boots fine, but does not find the additional space. I have checked disk manager (in the guest) and GParted, but both see the older,…
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Provisioning Virtualbox, which set of tools to look at?

I am using puppet to set up VirtualBox, Ubuntu 10.10 guest, Mac OSX host. Once I get to a shell, things are working fine. However, it seems to take a while, to download .iso and create the virtual machine itself. I'd like to find a way to do this…
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Is there a host system unique ID in VirtualBox?

Is there any chance to get an unique host system ID within my VM that is hosted in VirtualBox? Asked different: is there an unique ID of the host system that I can read from the virtual machine. In case I import the same VM into another host…
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Virtualbox linux host access windows guest filesystem

I'm on ubuntu 11.04 running virtualbox and I have windows 7 on the virtualbox. Sharing a host (linux) folder with windows (guest) is easy. How do I access the windows (guest) filesystem from linux (host)? There doesn't seem to be a way to share…
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Finding out "modifyvm" values for an existing VM

VirtualBox allows change advanced settings for the VMs using VBoxManage modifyvm CLI command, such as VBoxManage modifyvm --natdnshostresolver1 on. However, I fail to find the way to query for the current values for of these switches, i.e. to check…
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Virtualbox: How can I configure multiple network adaptors?

I have a host machine which is connected to the internet via a usb 3g dongle and is not attached to a network. Basically from the client I want to be able to ssh into the client from the host and I also want the client to have internet access. When…
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how to resize drive that is out of space on /dev/mapper

So I have followed some guides and not been able to sort it out, this is the drives $ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/cloudraker--vg-root 5.6G 5.5G 0 100% / none …
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Connect to localhost from Guest running on VirtualBox

I have a Rails app running on Mac at http://localhost:3000 and I would like to access it from Windows 7, which is a guest OS running on VirtualBox. Can you explain me how to do that? Thanks!
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VirtualBox: Windows7 is host, Ubuntu is guest - how to configure hosts to VirtualBox when networking is 'bridge'?

I am using Ubuntu as guest on VirtualBox on my Windows 7 host machine as web server for my PHP/Ruby projects. I set networking in VirtualBox setting to 'bridge' so now I can access my VirtualBox server by something like 192.168.2.26 - it is…
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