A virtual machine (VM) is a guest Operating System running in a completely isolated environment within a normal host operating system. Modern virtual machines are implemented with either software emulation or hardware virtualization or (in most cases) both together.
Questions tagged [virtual-machine]
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How to list domains in virsh?
virsh list returns an empty list but the gui virt-manager has 2 defined QEMU/KVM virtual machines. How come virsh list doesn't list anythng ?

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How do I create 100 virtual servers for testing?
I want to create 100 virtual servers. They will be used for testing, so they should be easy to create and destroy.
They must be accessible through SSH from another physical machine (I provide the public ssh-key)
They must have their own IP-address…

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What are the differences between various VM software?
I have only ever used VirtualBox and I would like to know, for example, what could I be missing from other offerings. I have heard of KVM and VMWare and I'm sure there's others. Short of reading Wikipedia articles on each (phew!), how do they…

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Is it 'possible' to transfer a VM to the metal?
How can one take a VM and make it run on the machine?

tshepang
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Choosing virtual machine software on Linux
There are many virtual machine software out there. Even some are included into mainline Linux.
What differentiates them, and what criteria should one ponder while choosing one?

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Deploy Linux into, and boot from, VHD
Since Microsoft Windows 7 came out, the Windows platform has supported a very awesome feature called Native VHD Boot. This allows you to install Windows into a VHDX file, rather than installing it directly onto a physical volume.
Using this…

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Is there such thing as a "free" equivalent to Microsoft Virtual Server?
I'm a student, I'd love to play around with this technology without the fear of my licence disappearing the day I graduate from college (as it might with the Microsoft Virtual Server licence from Dream Spark.
Anyone any suggestions?

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fedora 22 filesharing problem with virt-manager and Windows 7 guest
I'm running Fedora 22 (64 bit, 16gb memory, ext4 boot disk) with a cinnamon desktop and I would like to use Virtual Machine Manager to run Windows 7 as a guest. However, I'm having trouble filesharing between the Fedora 22 host and the virtual…

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Physical host or VM
Is there a way to tell whether a host is a physical one or a VM and which virtual container it is running out of (e.g. VirtualBox or VMWare)? I was wondering if that info may be in /etc some place.

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Nutanix VM template options
I have been given access to the Nutanix prism console to manage the state of the VMs,etc. I see there is a VM template available and when choosing the option to Create VM from Catalog Item don't see the boot configuration option I intend to see.
Is…

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virt-manager copy paste to vm in text mode
How can I copy paste in text mode from host to guest virtual machine? I have read answers that recommend using spice, but that works for X sessions, not in text mode, or not from host's X session to guest text mode.
I don't need graphics mode in…

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impossible folder sharing by virt-viewer in Windows client
I'm testing folder sharing using the virt viewer.
The guest OS is Windows. And I'm going to run a virt viewer on the Linux client and Windows client to see if folder sharing is possible.
I checked 'share folder' in the 'preference' section of the…

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How to automatically delete a virtual machine when it is turned off?
I'm using virt-install to create a virtual machine which just needs to perform a single task. Once the task is performed, the machine is automatically turned off. Once it turns off, there is no need to keep either the virtual machine or its virtual…

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Is it possible to run a Linux distro within a VM on Qubes OS?
In particular, I am considering running a minimal distro (maybe ttylinux) within Qubes. I understand that Qubes can run each OS component and application within a separate VM but how about an entire OS?

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Two host name for a virtual machine - 1st name given during development release , 2nd name in production
We want release VM images to customer .
After deploying VM image, customer want to have their own VM name, basically two host name is needed
1st name given during development let us call "factory name" , 2nd is "production name" given by…

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