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 …
Going virtual is a significant step for any programmer or IT professional to create test/demo environment. Emulating different Operating Systems within the current platform without additional costs is the best way for differentiating various critical processes and resource demonstrations. These processes may vary from code …
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 …
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 network. Setting up a network …
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 …
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 disk tool to clone the …
