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An x86 virtualization software package developed by Oracle (which bought Sun, which bought Innotek).

From VirtualBox's web site:

VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2.

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How to convert VMDK to VDI/VHD

It's said that VirtualBox's VBoxManage modifyhd --resize command can only be used on either VDI or VHD files. Sadly, I have a VirtualBox image that is in VMDK format, and I don't know how to convert it to those other two formats.
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Virtual box machine, Created in windows run on linux?

Can a virtual box machine that was created in Virtual Box for windows run on Virtual box for linux? And if so do I just need to transfer the hdd files?
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How to connect to a guest VM from the host system?

I have a VM webserver setup and I have installed and started Apache. The VM has a bridged network interface and can be pinged from the host using 192.168.0.2. However, if I type that same IP address into the browser on the host machine, I was…
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Linux Mint 15 unable to install on VM VirtualBox

Appears that something maybe up with my VM set-up as it wouldn't install Fedora either. Problem will be I load up the VM and hit F12 to boot from the CD/DVD which is pointed to the mounted ISO file which will at this attempt is…
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Open VirtualBox GUI?

I've installed VirtualBox and I would like to create a VM now. I prefer to use the GUI rather than the command line interface, and I know that VirtualBox comes with such a GUI. However, I can't seem to figure out what the name of this application…
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Install Redox OS with Virtual Box

I am trying to install Redox OS with Virtual Box on my Ubuntu 18.04 machine. The "book" says this: Trying Redox in a virtual machine The ISO image is not the prefered way to run Redox in a virtual machine. Currently the ISO image loads the entire…
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Lightweight VirtualBox Host OS for single guest

I'm thinking about replacing some PC's on our network, some win32 and some linux. I'd like to run the actual OS I want in a VirtualBox instance, only one per PC, so I want a mega-thin Linux distribution which will let me boot (without login – I…
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Why can't I install Debian amd64 in VirtualBox?

I'm trying to install the Debian ISO, debian-live-7.2-amd64-standard.iso into a virtual machine in VirtualBox but it just hangs. I'm running this version: $ virtualbox -h Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager 4.3.6_RPMFusion (C) 2005-2013 Oracle…
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Self contained VirtualBox VM

I would like to create VirtualBox VMs which are entirely contained in a single directory (including various aspects that are normally kept in a configuration in the ~/ directory). The idea is to remotely mount the directory and run the VM on that…
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Why does VirtualBox spawn so many processes on Linux?

I am using VirtualBox version 4.1.12_Ubuntur77245. Following is a screenshot of the command htop. Why does virtualbox spawn multiple processes for a single VM?
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How to delete VirtualBox networking rule?

I add a rule: VBoxManage modifyvm "xp" --natpf1 "guestrdp,tcp,127.0.0.1,33890,,3389" I list it: VBoxManage showvminfo "xp" | awk '/NIC/ && /Rule/ {print}' NIC 1 Rule(0): name = guestrdp, protocol = tcp, host ip = 127.0.0.1, host port = 33890,…
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What are the cons of using VirtualBox guest additions?

There's a number of advantages to installing Guest Additions in VirtualBox guests: one can copy-paste between host and guest one can run guest as fullscreen There must a whole lot more, so that makes me wonder if there are situations where one…
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User-specific virtual machines in VirtualBox

Is it possible to start many VMs created by different users on the same Linux host? I want to start four virtual machines with my own user name and start four with another user name at the same time on the same host.
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What's technical difference between official virtualbox and VirtualBox-OSE?

What's technical difference between official VirtualBox and VirtualBox-OSE? My scenario: I'm using Debian sid, it uses a 3.2.0-4 kernel. When you want to download VirtualBox, you have 3 options: customized for distro: such as Debian, Fedora and so…
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What does this message from kernel mean?

When I start VirtualBox, I got warning: VirtualBox' uses 32-bit capabilities (legacy support in use) It seems harmless though, but I still would like to know what that means? And why did I get that? I run a 64bit Arch Linux with Intel VT (i5 CPU),…
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