Virtual Box
Anything related to Virtual Box from how to setup the application to running a full blown lab environment.
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Installing Virtualbox Guest Additions on Debian 11
I have been working with Debian 11 and running docker on it to host a few applications at home. As per best practice, I setup a virtual machine to test configs and updates first before deploying it to my production infrastructure. In this article I will show you how to install the Virtual Box Guest Additions on a Debian 11 virtual machine. The Virtual Box Guest Additions makes features such as copying and pasting between the host OS and virtual machine as well as running the virtual machine in full screen. This article has a good write up on what the Guest Additions provide you. I used this article as…
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Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908) and modprobe vboxdrv
I created a new VM in Virtualbox on my Pop_OS! machine to install Rocky Linux but received the below error when trying to start the virtual machine: A quick search on the internet took me to the solution in this post. Thanks to Ali Razmdideh for the answer. I’m posting the steps here in case I need to find it again quickly. From terminal: sudo apt update sudo apt install –reinstall linux-headers-$(uname -r) virtualbox-dkms dkms sudo modprobe vboxdrv I did not reboot and managed to start the virtual server.
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VirtualBox – Invalid settings detected when trying to add a Host Only Adapter
Been playing with a few VM’s again today and run into trouble when I tried to add a Host Only Adapter in VirtualBox. The below video shows you how to enable the option to add a Host Only Adapter in Oracle’s VirtualBox.
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Virtual Box – This kernel requires the following features not present on the CPU: pae
Tried to install a new VM in Virtual box today and received an error stating: “This kernel requires the following features not present on the CPU:pae” In this video I show you how to enable PAE for the virtual machine. For more information on PAE click here. Remember to watch in 1080p
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Installing Virtual Box Guest Additions in Zentyal
I stumbled across Zentyal which seemed to be quite an interesting Linux distribution. I say that as they claim to be able to replace Microsoft’s Small Business Server (SBS) and co-exist with Active Directory and Exchange. Have a look at their website for all the features. I wanted to install the guest additions after installing Zentyal in Oracle’s Virtual Box to run the virtual machine in full screen mode. This was not as straight forward as I though it might be. Below is a video tutorial that I created to show how to install the guest additions in Zentyal. (Watch in HD and full screen) Also note: the links below the…
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Error Code: 0x000000C4 when trying to install Windows 8 or 8.1 in Virtual Box
I tried installing Windows 8.1 Preview in Virtual Box and received the below error: (If memory serves me correctly this was the same for Windows 8) Run the following command and then try installing Windows 8.1 Preview again. “c:Program FilesOracleVirtualBoxVBoxManage.exe” setextradata “VM Name” VBoxInternal/CPUM/CMPXCHG16B 1 This solved the issue for me. Found the information to the solution at this article here.
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Getting your guests in Virtual Box to communicate with each other
I’ve built quite a few labs using Virtual Box but tend to forget how to get the guests to communicate with each other. Below is a quick video that I put together to show how to set up Virtual Box to get this working. This is helpful with adding member servers to domain controllers and getting a complete AD site running. Another thing shown is how to setup sharing to access data from your guests that reside on the host machine.