A virtual machine (VM) is a completely isolated guest operating system installation within a normal host operating system. It is a software implementation of a machine (i.e. a computer) that executes programs like a physical machine.
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extend virtual machine across physical machines
Is it possible for two or more physical machines to be "grouped" into one virtual machine such that the CPU cores are shared?
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Hyper V Switch fault
I bought Server of OVH and installed windows in it.
Getting this error while creating VM
and gets this error when click to virtual switch manager
any solution?
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Hyper-V 2012 R2 - multiple public IP mapping
I have a physical server with Windows 2016 Datacenter and Hyper-V activated.
Multiple VMs are configured and need to be reached from the Internet.
My provider assigned multiple public IPs on the ...
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The file specified is not a virtual disk - Error on vmx and on all snapshots
I've been struggling for two days with this error now and read and executed countless solutions - but none seem to work.
I hope I find help here.
Without any warning or error my Vmaschine crashed.
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Is nested virtualization secure?
Is it secure to enable KVM nested virtualization on our (physical) host in order to enable users to run own VMs inside their VPS? Or does it introduce some security issues to our primary host and ...
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How do you store VMs on HDDs with data integrity AND performance?
First off I know this topic easily gets subjective, but I'm trying to avoid that, as there should be at least 1 good answer to this in a sea of bad answers and it's hard to find.
At first sight my ...
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Leading to “insecure” warning page only if I use the external IP of the VM (but otherwise worked properly)
Here is the current situation of my deployed web app, which I want to be compatible with SSL and already put my certificate and its key on the virtual machine (Ubuntu with nginx):
When I typed in the ...
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An odd-looking TCP-session script
I've faced a quite odd issue, which I'd like to share with you. Maybe you'd help me with some ideas on what's going on.
There are 3 virtual machines on a KVM-powered host. Actually there are about 50 ...
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AWS, software slow first start
When i launch manually a software (Autodesk 3dsmax) already installed on my AMI instance, the first start of this software is very slow. (the next launch are ok, with a correct/normal startup time).
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Executing Scheduled Task after VM Migration (HyperV)
We are setting up multiple SQL Virtual Machines, spread over multiple nodes, so that they can auto migrate between nodes for load balancing, or for automatic failover during troubling times. These VMs ...
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migrate physical OS and data to ESXI
What's the best way to migrate a Debian installation to ESXi? I have a Debian web server running on software RAID1 and ideally, I'd like to keep the raid config, provided that it would still make ...
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VMkernel not listed in vsphere machine creation wizard
I Installed fresh ESXi 6 on my server. I connected to my server using vSphere client and add "VM Network" and "VMkernel" on vSwitch0.
I assigned valid IP address on VMkernel and want to attach it to ...
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DNS (dnsmasq) in docker not resolving for VM host
One of the parts of my local dev environment is an Ubuntu VM (Virtual Box) running a couple of docker containers. Those containers provide a DNS service (dnsmasq) which forwards requests to Hashicorp'...
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How to connect to Windows Nano Server via SSH?
I want to run Nano Server in a Virtualbox virtual machine in a Linux host, but it seems that Nano Server only accepts access via WinRM using PowerShell.
I would prefer to find a way to access via ssh ...
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Will (Effectively) Nested Xen SR be Stable?
Is an effectively nested Xen Server storage repository a problem for stability?
Consider the graphic for the data path of the web server to a physical drive: (Starting on the right)
In the graphic ...
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How do I secure my shared folder [migrated]
I have some problems:
I use VMware Workstation 12 Player, I log on to the PC using domain admin, then I created some local users. With my domain admin, I have installed some applications, however, I ...
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Give a Windows 2008 VM Internet access but block Host LAN access?
Securing a guest VM to give it internet access, but block access to host LAN
The above was a similar question asked for Linux but the following has specifics that are different.
We need to have ...
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Problems creating a static route (or any route)
I have been using this website to read about routing tables and static routes, but I can't seem to get my own static route going.
Here is the situation:
-> PC:
1x Wifi NIC 192.168.1.19 with mask 255....
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Hyper-V host consuming available memory
I'm a bit new to configuring Hyper-V so this could be a simple question for someone, but I am in need of some advice.
I have a Hyper-V host server with 128GB RAM, and all of this RAM is being ...
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Azure Linux VM root volume exend
I have created a SLES 11.4 linux machine on Azure. it comes with 30GB root volume as standard. I have attached another 1TB disk to this system, however for the software I want to install I need root ...
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Fileserver using Xen and Local Storage [closed]
What is a "best practice" way to setup a file server using Xen and Local Storage.
We are consolidating our VMs and fileserving to a single box with XenServer 7. The drives will all be physically ...
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Practice management software running in Hyper-V? [closed]
It's my first time asking a question, so please let me know if I've done something wrong or can be more clear/concise in my phrasing.
I've recently taken over service for a dental office that ...
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Connect two VM's in a data center
I asked my hosting provider if I can use internal data traffic over http between two virtual machines I run with the same provider.
The short answer was, that this is not possible and the machines ...
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How to share source code between host and guest VM? [migrated]
I am a web developer. My computer runs Windows 10 LTSB in an AD domain. I develop source code on my local machine. I would like to boot a VM that runs an Apache/SQL/etc server to run my code on. The ...
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Jenkins, VPS and VMs
I'm hosting my website on a VPS (by OVH) on which I'm running Debian. The website is live and working at https://example.com. I installed Jenkins on the same VPS, which is live and working at http://...
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Resize VM to Dv2
Last week I had created a DsV2 VM on Microsoft Azure. I've noticed that VM costs are pretty high. After some googling, I assumed that it is because it uses premium storage instead of regular one. I ...
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How to run cmd from PowerCLI Invoke-VMScript starting with an open console
I'm trying to run a exe file in a remote machine from PowerCLI which is launching couple of cmd's.
With this command:
$executeCommand = "call D:\MyFile.exe Arg1 Arg2";
Invoke-VMScript -VM $vmName -...
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Power off vm when UPS kicks in
I am currently implementing a UPS (APC BR1200) for servers and NAS in a school. We have one physical servers running multiple instances of VM using VMWare workstation.
The APC UPS is connected to ...
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Azure VM inbound rules not working
I have a Windows VM that has been running successfully in Azure for a while, and I opened up several ports and had them all working. However, I can't hit any of the urls in an external browser right ...
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Windows Server Hyper-V Configuration and Hardware Requirements [closed]
I plan to buy a windows server machine as a part of an academic project. In this project I plan to use one windows server having multiple virtual servers. At this step, I am writing a hardware and ...
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Console after installing guests with KVM and virt-install
I'm trying to install a few virtual machines with KVM onto my Debian Jessie System.
I researched a lot but have not yet found a helping answer to my problem.
I'm connected via ssh to my host machine ...
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New Centos7 Opennebula VM- Can't ping or ssh- possibly related to firewalld?
I've successfully created a Centos7 VM in opennebula and I can see it in the GUI in the the list of virtual machines.
The machine has a local network ip address, but I can't actually ssh or ping the ...
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Azure VPS lose port inbound policy every time subnet gets associated in another VPS
I'm having a weird issue but I understand is caused by my lack of knowledge on how Azure manages network policies about inbount/outbound rules across VPS. Let me depict my scenario:
I have 2 VPS, one ...
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Internet connection in Azure Classic VM drops
For the past few months I've been having a problem with one of my Azure classic VMs where the internet connection drops out randomly. The virtual machine functions normally but services that connect ...
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How can i restart my azure VM
I'm curious about Azure virtual machines and sharepoint farm solution.after configure sharepoint for 3 days after i had problem,Failed to start virtual machine. While i press restart button it shows ...
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Moving Azure VM to another region - Ways to keep the Public IP address?
For regulatory reasons, I will soon have to move an Azure VM (classic) from the Netherlands region to the Germany region.
I have read a few blogs about this and believe I understand the process, in ...
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Centos 7 save iptables settings (port forwarding)
I have KVM installed on Centos with one VM
Host ip: 192.168.1.108, Guest ip: 192.168.100.227, LAN: 192.168.1.4/24
here is all what i did:
i have disabled firewalld and installed iptables-services
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Where is my VHD being used in Azure VM?
I am running a VM using Azure and the VM uses a default OS Disk (30 GB), mounted on /dev/sda1. I can also see another /dev/sdb1 which I came to know is a temp disk (130 GB) auto-provided by VM.
The ...
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Using audio services on Windows Server 2008 R2
Software that I modified for use in a particular game takes player input, feeds it to a text-to-speech engine, and outputs a .wav audio file, which the game then runs, making the player's character "...
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VM How to setup 2 NIC for FailOver IP (BridgeClient)
I'm currently having trouble figuring out how to setup correctly my new VM's NICs. The server have 2 NIC under Centos 6.8, both will need to be configured to their own (OVH) Failover IP address.
OVH ...
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Linux server kiosk [closed]
I want to build a dedicated machine I can use for testing candidates in our company.
The machine should run Linux with SSH server listening for connections.
I would like to send each candidate a user ...
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Can I cluster desktops to create a single ESXi VM pool?
I have 8 desktops of HP Elite 8000 make with quad core intel and 16 GB ram each. Can I somehow club them to get a single ESXi interface where I can create multiple VMs for users to connect?
How many ...
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Host shared virtual machine
I am trying to find an alternative means for hosting a virtual machine (at work we have a server that hosts our virtual machines currently running on a Xen Server 6.5 host).
My questions is, is there ...
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Use PowerCLI to migrate VM storage
I'm trying to use PowerCLI (VMWare) to move some VMs from one datastore to another (but I am wanting to keep compute resources and locations the same). I know how to use the Move-VM command, but what ...
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Can we install and run VMware ESXi on a parallels server? [closed]
I would like to install parallels and then install ESxi on top of it to get the distributed storage, Is this possible??. Is there any free tools available in VMWare o do the same?. I'm a newbie, need ...
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Adding VM's to Domain
I am trying to configure SP farm, in Azure, following steps mention in this article - https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt723354(v=office.16).aspx
But after creating Sql VM('sqlVM' ), I am ...
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How to enable hardware acceleration in Azure VM NV6 Windows 10
I tried to run SketchUp 2017 in my Azure VM NV6 Windows 10 but failed.
SketchUp failure screenshot
Then I downloaded the driver from nvidia official website http: //www.nvidia.com/download/...
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Is it a best practice to use Docker containers on a bare-metal Windows 2012r2 OS installation?
I've read various things on containers vs. virtual machines. That's not what I'm asking (I don't think). If I am using containers, do I use them on a virtual machine?
My server is 2012r2 on the ...
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Cloudstack VM use more CPU than restricted
I have a private cloudstack cloud with the following configuration:
host server:
ubuntu 14.04
KVM hypervisor
2x 2400 MHz CPU (amd athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+)
virtual machines:
1x 500 ...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit memory leak
I´m having trouble in one of my office servers. It´s a virtualized Windows 2008 R2 Server with 6GB RAM memory. It only has Microsoft SQL Server (memory assigned maximum = 3GB), and just a software ...
