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 … more
Attaching a SATA storage controller in VirtualBox is straightforward. Sometimes, you need to attach SATA hard disks to specific virtual machines rather than the default IDE disks. This post explains how to add SATA hard disk (virtual disk) to virtual … more
Most of the recent Windows Operating Systems with preinstalled packages/applications are available for download officially in VHDX/VHD file format. Even though these VHD files are mainly made for Microsoft’s server virtualization hypervisor: Hyper-V, but still we can use them on … more
If you have a pre-configured VirtualBox VM with the XML file, you can easily add it to the VMs list in VirtualBox. Usually, when we create a new VM from the interface, it comes under the VMs list. But if … more
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 … more
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 … more
Mostly in the testing environment, you may need to set up a network between virtual machines that are running on VMware Workstation and Oracle VirtualBox. These virtual machines can be on the same host or different hosts on the physical … more
Earlier we published a guide about VirtualBox P2V in Windows 10/11 by VMware converter. In this guide, we will learn more about how to do a VirtualBox P2V with a Microsoft utility called disk2vhd. disk2vhd is an excellent virtual hard … more
