Installing the Guest OS on iSCSI disks in VirtualBox is a good idea to keep the virtual machines in a centralized location. Also, it is one of the requirements to do live migration between VirtualBox hosts using teleportation. This post illustrates how to connect iSCSI …
There are few Android emulators on the Internet to test and use Andoird apps on PCs. Those are emulators, not the real Android OS like on the phone or tablet. There is a modified Android OS available that can be installed on normal 32-bit or …
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. We prepared a Windows XP image with VirtualBox guest additions to make things easy. It will allow you to attach …
Creating the image of an existing virtual machine from Oracle VirtualBox as an appliance can help you move the VM from one host to another or Oracle Cloud or even upload it to the Internet, which can be downloaded and imported by others easily. This post …
When I migrated my home computer to new hardware with Windows 11, the VirtualBox VMs started working too slow. They are completely unusable. Even though the new hardware configuration is more powerful than the old PC, it was a real shock when the virtual machines …
VirtualBox has a shared folder feature that allows accessing the host computer’s physical hard drive partition and folders from the virtual machine. Once the VirtualBox guest additions are correctly installed, this can be enabled easily by doing additional steps. But in some cases, if you …
This guide explains how to do VirtualBox P2V in Windows host OS. By this method, you can convert a physical computer which could be local or on the network (remote computer) to a virtual environment. The method is not straightforward since there are no tools …
VirtualBox has a built-in server with a Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) service that allows users to connect to virtual machines remotely from another computer. This method is called ‘Remote Display’. This guide explains how to set it up, connect and use multiple remote displays in …
