I am trying to access my Windows computer files inside of my Virtualbox VM.
I have already added file paths to the Virtualbox Shared Folders as permanent Machine Folders with 'automount' active. I still can't view these files within the VM.
I have also attempted to download the VirtualBox Guest Additions, but it fails to load.
The system runs on redhat - not sure if that's part of the problem. First time ever starting up a VM on a windows so I'm a little lost.
Must have had the wrong Guest Additions download. Used the download below and used the following steps:
http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.1.20/
Set files to machine on VM settings
IN VM GUI: Settings > Storage
Right click Controller:IDE
Click 'Add Optical Drive'
Choose Disk - add VBoxGuestAdditions_5.1.20.iso
Save
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I am trying to install redhat (rhel8) in virtualBox 6.1 on a windows 10 64 bit Home edition machine.
I verified the checksum of the iso file after download and its correct (I compared the checksum against another friend iso file who is able to install properly), still I am getting exception like
dnf.exceptions.error some packages from local repository have incorrect checksum
I even tried to run troubleshooting, but it raise exceptin like
failed to start media check on /dev/sr0 virtualbox
I have downloaded the iso files from multiple places and every time it gives me the same exception.
Any help is highly aprreciated.
Finally I found the reason for the above error.
Virtual Box uses virtualization to run multiple Operating Systems and in one system (let's say a windows machine) only one of the application will be allowed to use system virtualization capability.
So we have to disable any manual virtualization if performed in the system.
So we can disable virtualization by following ways:
Search for “Turn Windows features on or off” in the Start menu, hit
the Enter key to open the Windows Features window. Here, scroll down
to Hyper-V and disable it by clearing checkbox next to it. Then click
OK
Disable Hyper-V by using command.
Press Windows logo key + X, then hit A to run Command Prompt as administrator. In Command Prompt window, type
bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off
and hit Enter key to execute this command.
Finally restart system.
Windows 10 Pro, v1803 Build 17134.648, 64-bit. Hyper-V Manager v10.0.17134.1.
I have had Hyper-V running on my Windows 10 machine for many months, but recently have had an error when starting my VMs up: Microsoft VmBus (Instance ID [long GUID]): Failed to Power on with Error 'The system cannot find the path specified.'.
(Note: I have moved my default Virtual Hard Disks and Virtual Machines folders to a harddrive that is not my C: due to space limitations.)
(clarification) While Hyper-V can see existing and new VMs, it cannot start any of them without throwing the above error. This applies to machine that pre-existed prior to the first error, or were newly created using Quick Create (with default settings.) There are no devices in the VM settings that indicate they are in error, and the VHD is found in the location the settings indicate it should be.
I have no idea what the path is that it's claiming it cannot find. I can find confirmation in the Event Logs, but no additional clues. In Applications and Services Logs/Microsoft/Windows/Hyper-V-Worker/Admin, I see the two error event IDs 12010 ['Windows 10 Dev Environment' Microsoft VmBus: Failed to Power on with Error 'The system cannot find the path specified.' (0x80070003).] and 10230 ['Windows 10 Dev Environment' failed to start.].
Can someone please give me a clue where I can look to confirm what "path specified" it's looking for, and how I can provide it, or change it?
Thanks to all who tried to help, but I have since abandoned this entirely. I have purchased a new machine, which I will be installing a new Windows 10 environment onto, and will start Hyper-V completely from scratch on that box, then after confirming that Hyper-V functions correctly, I will import my VMs to there.
Set up:
Host: Windows 10 Enterprise
Guest: Windows 10 Professional
Hypervisor: Hyper-V
Aim:
Create a shared folder between Host and Guest via an internal network to exchange files
How can I achieve this?
Share Files, Folders or Drives Between Host and Hyper-V Virtual Machine
Prerequisites
Make sure you have a Pro or Enterprise version of the Windows OS. The Home version does not provide you with this functionality! From the official documentation:
The virtual machine must have Remote Desktop Services enabled, and run Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2016, or Windows Server 2012 R2 as the guest operating system.
Ensure that Enhanced session mode settings are enabled on the Hyper-V host.
Start Hyper-V Manager, and in the Actions section, select "Hyper-V Settings".
Make sure that enhanced session mode is allowed in the Server section. Then, make sure that the enhanced session mode is available in the User section.
Enable Hyper-V Guest Services for your virtual machine
Right-click on Virtual Machine > Settings. Select the Integration Services in the left-lower corner of the menu. Check Guest Service and click OK.
Steps to share devices with Hyper-v virtual machine:
Start a virtual machine and click Show Options in the pop-up windows.
Or click "Edit Session Settings..." in the Actions panel on the right
It may only appear when you're (able to get) connected to it. If it doesn't appear try Starting and then Connecting to the VM while paying close attention to the panel in the Hyper-V Manager.
View local resources. Then, select the "More..." menu.
From there, you can choose which devices to share. Removable drives are especially useful for file sharing.
Choose to "Save my settings for future connections to this virtual machine".
Click Connect. Drive sharing is now complete, and you will see the shared drive in this PC > Network Locations section of Windows Explorer after using the enhanced session mode to sigh to the VM. You should now be able to copy files from a physical machine and paste them into a virtual machine, and vice versa.
Source (and for more info): Share Files, Folders or Drives Between Host and Hyper-V Virtual Machine
Drawbacks
While this solution is easy and probably works faster then when using internal network, it has its own drawback: the drive is mapped only while there is a connection via the VMConnect client. If you run a vm with some background services or you connect to it via RDP, this approach isn't gonna work. (thanks #sich for pointing this out)
Open Hyper-V Manager
Create a new internal virtual switch (e.g. "Internal Network Connection")
Go to your Virtual Machine and create a new Network Adapter -> choose "Internal Network Connection" as virtual switch
Start the VM
Assign both your host as well as guest an IP address as well as a Subnet mask (IP4, e.g. 192.168.1.1 (host) / 192.168.1.2 (guest) and 255.255.255.0)
Open cmd both on host and guest and check via "ping" if host and guest can reach each other (if this does not work disable/enable the network adapter via the network settings in the control panel, restart...)
If successfull create a folder in the VM (e.g. "VMShare"), right-click on it -> Properties -> Sharing -> Advanced Sharing -> checkmark "Share this folder" -> Permissions -> Allow "Full Control" -> Apply
Now you should be able to reach the folder via the host -> to do so: open Windows Explorer -> enter the path to the guest (\192.168.1.xx...) in the address line -> enter the credentials of the guest (Choose "Other User" - it can be necessary to change the domain therefore enter ".\"[username] and [password])
There is also an easy way for copying via the clipboard:
If you start your VM and go to "View" you can enable "Enhanced Session". If you do it is not possible to drag and drop but to copy and paste.
Enhanced Session
For those who are having trouble getting the "Edit Session Settings..." dialog, I found that I could get to the dialog box by having the guest machine running in windowed mode so that the top menu ("File Action Media Clipboard View Help") was visible, then selecting "File > Exit" (or clicking on the "X" at the top right of the guest machine window).
After that, the dialog would launch from the Hyper-V Manager Actions "Edit Session Settings..." link.
My version is Hyper-V Version: 10.0.22509.1000,I think the best and most convenient way in windows is that configuring the host and the vm in the same subnet,So you can just use the ctrl+c and ctrl+v Seamlessly between host and vm.
Over the last few days I got vnc to a GCE Linux vm working. Moral of the story: forget gnome, go with xfce.
Got Google Chrome installed from command line. I'm attempting to install Talend Open Studio on the vm, but navigating the website is miserable via vnc.
Has anyone figured a way to apt-get install TalendStudio? I don't think it exists so looking for the closest to it.
You can browse and download TOS to the physical machine as where the VM resides . Then, you could use SCP / SFTP to transfer the TOS file to the VM .
Some VM packages allow sharing a folder between the physical machine and VMs. That would also allow easy transfer of the file to the VM.
I have a set of machines, a mixture of Linux and Windows Boxes.
I hav set up rsync to pull from the Linux Machines to a Linux Server box.
I am trying to accomplish the same using cwRsync, to pull to the Linux box from the windows machines. I have downloaded the free version from https://www.itefix.no/i2/content/cwrsync-free-edition and also I have downloaded CopSSH. I have managed to install CopSSH fine and I am able to SSH between the Linux and Windows hosts no problem using keys rather than passwords.
However, for the life of me I can't get this cwRsync working, I've googled the matter to death, and your meant to unzip the directory, configure the environment settings in the batch file then install it. However, there is nothing to install it with! and the reason it isn't working is because it needs to install a windows service for it to run.
Any help would be much appreciated!
As described at itefix web page for the free edition, it allows to initiate rsync from your Windows machine, i.e. client functionality only (push data). Server functionality allowing you to set up an rsync server on Windows to pull data from it is not a part of the free edition.