Tag Archives for VirtualBox
Install VirtualBox Guest Additions on CentOS 5.x
This has been documented many times before, but for some reason installing VirtualBox guest additions on CentOS is a pain. To install them: yum install kernel-devel gcc either ln -s /usr/src/kernel/[current version] /usr/src/linux or export KERN_DIR=/usr/src/kernel/[current version] Then the usual … Continue reading
Fedora 12 on VirtualBox
Just a quick note that if you use the default VirtualBox settings during the “Create New Virtual Machine” wizard for a new install of Fedora 12, you’ll find that the .iso will boot to the live user screen, but when … Continue reading
Getting Cisco VPN software to work on a Windows guest running in VirtualBox
Problem: Cisco VPN client running on a Windows XP guest in VirtualBox is unable to connect. Each attempt to connect is met with the same result — it won’t connect and endlessly asks for re-authentication. Answer: After some googling, I … Continue reading
VirtualBox P2V Success
I’ve been using VirtualBox prior to 1.4, and P2V’ing a Windows host into VirtualBox has been close to impossible. With some hints from Katsumi Inoue and a comment from Robert, I’ve been successfully able to P2V my primary Windows host … Continue reading
Setting up VirtualBox external VRDP authentication
[NOTE: I originally posted this on the VirtualBox forum for those that were having issues with using external VRDP authentication and wanted to add it here as well...] I finally found a workable solution that will work for everyone (at … Continue reading