Virtualization is the process of using software to create a virtual resource of something; usually, it refers to hardware virtualization, the act of running an operating system (referred to as guest) inside an host system.
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The same VPN on host and virtual machine
I have a host machine (call it H) and a virtual machine (call it V) running on VMPlayer. I want them both:
to be on the same VPN, and
to be able to ssh (and sshfs) from H to V.
Currently V uses ...
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One host, two virtual machines that cannot ping each other. How to solve
We have Virtual Machines operating within the KVM environment. We setup one as a dev server running apache etc and the other as a Windows development environment.
The two environments are setup and ...
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OS X virtualization for software development
I am a OS X user and I work on multiple platforms for which I need multiple dependencies. I want to separate my different development dependency packages in virtual environments so they are all ...
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Qemu Arm how to passthrough a PCI Card
I'm trying to access a PCI wifi adapter on a Qemu, simulating vexpress-a9 board.
I'm following is this tutorial which shares a passthrough PCI card of the host machine to a guest machine running on ...
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How to upgrade debian VM with more CPUs
For some reason whoever built the server I'm working on only gave it 2 CPUs in the hyper-visor, I can easily give it 4, but I'm positive that will break it, the kernel will not recognize the others.. ...
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Measuring CPU %steal on VMware and Hyper-V hypervisors
For Xen Linux guests, %steal time is readily available via top and other utilities.
Is it possible to get this and related metrics from within a Linux guest when running a non-Xen hypervisor such as ...
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Partclone error
I am trying to clone a disk in a VMware Machine
The initial situation is:
When cloning, I get the following error:
Notes:
The VM is bootstrapped with the Arch Linux ISO.
sda is a physical ...
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How to force the time and date settings to refresh from the internet?
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS under vmWare. When I restart a suspended image, the system clock doesn't detect that the system time is out of date. In the Time and Date settings dialog, I've selected ...
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How to check which hypervisor is used from my VM? [duplicate]
So I'm running a VM somewhere and want to know what hypervisor the host is running. Any way to check whether it's running KVM or in a container?
The vm is running Ubuntu
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centos 6.4 trouble with /dev/pts/ptmx
I have a problem with the server running on CentOS. CentOS has been upgraded to version 6.4 and has all updates. Updates were made according to the official repositories. On the server running the ...
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DNS issues when using VPN in Linux Mint
I'm using Windows8 as my host OS, and are running a Linux Mint VM on virtualbox, with its network being virtualized as NAT.
I'm using Ciscos AnyConnect VPN to get access to a certain network. The ...
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In virtual machine manager, is there a way to add disk space to an existing disk?
I know that in virt-manager you can add RAM and processors to the virtual machine, but is there a way to increase the available disk space larger through the GUI?
Edit: @slm was able to find the ...
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Easy way to determine virtualization technology
I have command line access to a Linux machine which may or may not be virtualized. I want to determine what kind of virtualization technology it runs on, if any (VMWare, VirtualBox, KVM, OpenVZ, Xen, ...
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KVM loss of data?
I'm planning to install KVM on Linux Mint. I heard it is possible to corrupt files and partitions. There are warnings here but I haven't finish reading it (I will tonight). There is also another ...
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Virtualizing a Low End Virtual Server
I have started to teach the lesser fortunate children in my area about technology and computers in general. Some of them show some real promise and I'm planning to introduce them to Linux and Open ...
