After installing Ubuntu (or any Linux flavours) on Windows host using VirtualBox, if you get an error “You do not have the permissions necessary to view the contents of sf shared folder name” while accessing the shared folders, let me show the steps to fix …
In the world of virtualization, VMDK and VDI are two important disk file formats. VMDK is used by VMware Workstation, while VDI is used by Oracle VirtualBox. In this article, we will show how to convert a VMDK file to VDI, and vice versa. This …
Though there are several ways to use Windows XP on Windows 10 and 11, using it with the pre-installed image for VirtualBox adds many advantages. To make things easy, we prepared a Windows XP image with VirtualBox guest additions. It will allow you to attach …
Sometimes when you have several virtual machines with the Oracle VirtualBox, it is better to create a shortcut for your favorite and frequently used VM on Windows OS Desktop. In fact, every virtual machine can be opened without opening the main VirtualBox GUI console. In …
If you are the person having plenty of virtual machines on a single host Oracle VirtualBox, then the ‘VM Group’ feature will be very useful in managing them. It helps to arrange VMs in a particular group (in a single area) and work with them …
Windows 2022 is an upcoming server OS from Microsoft with new features and plenty of security enhancements. As Microsoft is pushing harder on security by utilizing hardware chips in Windows 11, the same technique continues in Windows 2022 server also. The next question that comes …
Cloning an existing working virtual machine is the ideal way to deploy identical virtual machines quickly in any virtualization platform. It can greatly save time while deploying VMs for testing and production purpose. The Oracle VirtualBox has several tools to clone a virtual machine. We …
Using a virtualization program for running various operating systems has become quite popular in the technological world today. Though there’s a shift towards cloud & containerization to a certain degree, still virtualization is the mandatory component for running workloads & attaining consolidation. Let us do …
