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Questions about Virtualizing Ubuntu or virtualizing other operating systems within Ubuntu.

A Virtual Machine is a machine that exist as a file. The file contains all the settings for the machine, including the operating system and ram usage. Then a Virtual Machine can be executed by using softwares like Virtualbox.

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Migrate from a virtual machine (VM) to a physical system

Aka: How can I convert a .vdi or .vmdk to a real installation on a physical disk? Is it possible/feasible to migrate a Virtual Machine installation of Ubuntu onto a physical machine? If possible, how difficult would this be to accomplish and what…
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How do I unmaximize full screen view in virt-manager?

After activating full screen view for a virtual machine in virt-manager there is no obvious way to un-full screen. Any ideas?
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Issue with Virt-manager

I installed virt-manager and I am unable to make it work. I have tried some of the previously posted answers with no success. I've verified that: The libvirt-bin package is installed The libvirtd daemon has been started I am a member of the…
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How to increase VM HDD and RAM sizes?

I installed Ubuntu 14.04 VM on VirtualBox. I used this VM for several weeks. I need to increase its RAM and HDD size. Is there a way to do so?
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How to Switch Between Operating Systems Without Reboot?

Is it possible to switch into a Windows environment from Ubuntu without rebooting the computer?
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What's the friendliest virtualization solution?

I want to experiment with virtualization in Ubuntu 10.04 and have found the following list of hopefully relevant names: Xen, OpenVZ, KVM, Vservers, EC2 and Solaris Zones, although this is just a sample list and the question is not exclusive to…
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Best way to create virtual machine with 16.04?

I want to install a virtual machine to run Samba with file server and domain controller. The recommendations I read is, do not run a file server and a domain controller on the same system. As the file server will have higher load I want to…
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Is there an open source alternative to Vmware vSphere Server? Like a Ubuntu or similar Distro with virtualization hosting built in?

I am looking at turning my old Dell 2650 and 2950 servers into Vmware vSphere Servers, however vSphere is very very expensive. Is there an open source alternative that provides the same performance as vSphere in a Ubuntu or Debian distro? I dont…
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Can I distribute an Ubuntu appliance?

For my computer class we need Linux. So I recommend to get Virtual Box and Ubuntu. But since there has to be TeX and Emacs installed which is non-trivial for novices, I thought I might set up an appliance to help them. I realize that it is free…
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internal error: cannot load AppArmor profile 'libvirt-

I am receiving an error while starting up a newly created virtual machine in ubuntu 17.10 using Virtual machine Manager. It worked fine once but I shut it down and now can't get it to start, I get - Error starting domain: internal error: cannot load…
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libvirt custom emulator path

I'm having a problem configuring custom path to qemu-system-x86_64. $ echo $PATH /usr/local/TEST:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin:/snap/bin $ which…
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Is there any virtualization software which can run x64 bit guest os without vt-x support Hardware?

I have Gateway NE56R laptop with Intel B960 processor, which do not support virtualization. But I want to install x64 bit guest OS on VirtualBox, it gives me error. I have also used VMware workstation, Parallels workstation. My host OS is Ubuntu…
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kernel panic not syncing : Attempted to kill the idle task. I got this error while plugging Ubuntu virtual machine

Error image is clearly specifying the message.
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Hyper-V Style Hypervisor on Ubuntu

I've got an Ubuntu server running a few things, and I'd like to add FreePBX to it. I don't want to reconfigure/reinstall my current Ubuntu installation just so I can run a Type-1 hypervisor like Xen (If I understand correctly I would have to…
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virt-sysprep problem

Virt-sysprep man page notes : You do not need to run virt-sysprep as root. In fact we'd generally recommend that you don't. The time you might want to run it as root is when you need root in order to access the disk image, but even in this…
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