Cloning an existing working virtual machine is the ideal way to deploy identical virtual machines quickly. It can greatly save time while deploying VMs for testing or production use. VirtualBox has several tools to clone a virtual machine. We will be discussing all possible ways …
Read moreClone Virtual Machines in VirtualBox (Linked Clone, CloneVDI Tool and CLI)
Mostly in the testing environment, you may have to set up a network between virtual machines which are running on VMware Workstation and Oracle VirtualBox. These virtual machines can be on the same host or different host on the physical network. Setting up a network …
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This guide explains how to do VirtualBox P2V in Windows host OS. By this method, you can convert a physical computer that can be local or network (remote computer) to the virtual environment. It’s not a straight forward method since there are no tools available …
Read moreVirtualBox P2V (Physical to Virtual) in Windows 10 – 2 Methods
VirtualBox has a shared folder feature that allows accessing the host computer physical hard drive partition and folders from the virtual machine. Once the VirtualBox guest additions installed properly, by doing additional steps, this can be enabled easily. But in some cases, if you want …
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In this post, I demonstrate how to set up and test VirtualBox teleportation (live migration) of a working virtual machine from one host computer to another. Teleporting is a feature added from VirtualBox version 3.1. It is almost like a failover cluster where we can …
Read moreTest VirtualBox Teleportation on Normal PCs- Live Migration of Virtual Machines
With the help of free virtualization software such as Oracle VirtualBox, we can have multiple Operating Systems on the same hardware. This guide shows how to install Ubuntu 19.04 on VirtualBox with the Windows 10 host computer. The same steps can be followed to install …
Read moreInstall Ubuntu 19.04 on VirtualBox with Shared Folders – Windows 10 Host
After installing Ubuntu Linux OS on Windows using VirtualBox, if you are getting an error “You do not have the permissions necessary to view the contents of sf shared folder name” when you try to access the shared folders, let me show you how I …
Read more[Fixed] This Location Could Not be Displayed – VirtualBox Shared Folder Permission Error
Whenever Oracle releases updates for their best and free virtualization software VirtualBox, you must update the extension pack to get extra features on the guest virtual machine. If you use some of the advanced features such as USB 3.0/2.0, VirtualBox RDP and PXE boot for …
Read moreDownload & Install VirtualBox Extension Pack on Windows 10/8.1 Host