I am using MacOS Mojave and have installed VirtualBox VM. My OS in VM is Ubuntu. My problem is that I want my VM machine to be fullscreen. I have tried every method given on stackoverflow but none seems to work.
I have read that
Oracle VM VirtualBox does not provide Guest Additions for Mac OS X at this time.
I found the above statment on https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch14.html Does this mean that fullscreen is not possible?
If there is a way to fullscreen, then kindly let me know.
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It is possible for Guest Ubuntu to get fullscreen in Host Mac. You need to install Guest Additions. You can get them(for virtualbox 6.1) here-
Guest Addtions
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Open your Terminal.
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-guest-utils
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I have been trying to install VirtualBox on Mac os High Sierra but installation is failing. I tried all the steps provided here Virtualbox not installing on High Sierra but nothing worked for me. Basically, while installing, it is not asking me if I should allow outside app from Oracle or not. After the failed installation, I see that the VirtualBox still got installed but when I start a vm, it errors out and gives all sorts of other errors. Any thoughts?
I've got a Mac OS with Catalina installed. In this MAC Os host, I run a VirtualBox centos linux box (installed with Vagrant). In the Centos virtual Box I want to launch app like (google-chrome or any x application) with the display exported to the MacOS host.
I've set the X11Forwarding yes in /etc/ssh/sshd_config (in MacOS Box AND in the Centos BOX).
On MacOS i've installed and running XQuartz, which is working well (I can start xterm from MacOs XQuartz configuration for example).
I ssh from MacOs into my Centos box with -X. So X11 port forwarding must be ok.
When I start any graphical application from Centos (google-chrome for example), I always have this message :
(google-chrome:26817): Gtk-WARNING **: 17:49:49.940: cannot open display:
I've tried some export DISPLAY configuration but without success : always cannot open dispay
Any help would be greatly appreciated because I'm stuck.
I solve my problem. It is just a matter of NIC interface used when starting VM through Vagrant. If I use the Wifi NIC -> KO. If I use the Ethernet NIC it is ok.
I have Virtualbox already installed on a Mac El Capitan machine running several VMs that I need to continue to use. I understand that Docker Toolbox will install its own Virtualbox.
I'd like to not disrupt my existing VMs. Is there any possibility that the two Virtualbox installations would conflict and if so, are there any known remedies?
I just installed Docker Toolbox on my Macbook Pro running El Captian 10.11.4. I had VirtualBox 5.0.8 already installed and working properly. When Docker Toolbox automatically recognized this VirtualBox installation and started using it without any problems.
You don't have to install docker toolbox: you can install docker machine and kinematic separately.
docker machine installation is straight-forward (just copy the executable)
curl -L https://github.com/docker/machine/releases/download/v0.5.5/docker-machine_darwin-amd64 >/usr/local/bin/docker-machine && \
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-machine
You might want to upgrade your VirtualBox to the latest version though.
I have a problem with Vagrant, trying to initialize a virtualbox with laravel/homestead box.
I have installed latest version of Vagrant (1.7.4) on my Windows 8 OS.
I have installed Oracle VirtualBox 5.5.0.
Then I did this in windows Command Prompt:
vagrant add box laravel/homestead to add the laravel homestead box
vagrant init laravel/homestead
and
vagrant up
After vagrant up somewhere in the process the system fails with BSoD (KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED)
Any ideas of what i could have done wrong, or have anybody experienced this problem?
Thank you!
Make sure you don't have Hyper-V windows resource active.
If you had installed Docker before check this, coz Docker needs Hyper-V.
In my case this works for me
Search for "Windows resource" on your windows start menu, and click on Enable or Disable windows resources, find Hyper-V, uncheck all checkboxes and OK. Restart your machine after this.
Ty
I had almost same issue(BSOD gave error SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION).
Yesterday I installed Docker on Windows 10 and today I tried to "vagrant up"(using VirtualBox Provisioner) and got the BSOD. Hyper-V was conflicting and I turned it off from "Windows Features" and the issue got resolved.
I have recently started using VirtualBox to get my Linux environment rather than fully using Ubuntu. For me this works well. But recently i have realized that in the Ubuntu vm the only thing I use a lot is the terminal, mostly just because I need the Linux environment and not the full desktop.
So I tried installing Ubuntu server into a VM, which worked. But as soon as I reboot the machine, it fails after the system boot logo. After BIOS and where I would log on from the command line I simply get a black screen with a non blinking cursor. So I am never fully able to boot into the vbox.
I read up on the command line version, trying to run it headless and then connecting to it from demote desktop. after starting the vbox I am able to connect to the desktop and see the grub screen but after selecting Ubuntu I get that same non-blinking cursor.
So is this really possible? I tried cygwin but it never really felt adequate to me. I like and am very comfortable with the Ubuntu/Debian command line. How could I (if possible) accomplish this? I want to be bale to start up the VBox and get the full command line for that vbox session. Any ideas?
Ubuntu version: 10.10, VirtualBox v. 4.0.4 r70112 and I am on Windows 7 Ultimate.
You didn't mention the versions of Ubuntu and Virtualbox.
I failed twice to install full Ubuntu 10.10 over the latest VirtualBox 4.0.4 over Ubuntu (problems like those you describe), so I switched to Debian 6.0.
All you require to install Ubuntu headless is to install the server version, which you already did. If you get blank screens, tweak the ioapic settings in both VB and Ubuntu. Another tweak is to switch between IDE and SATA drivers for the main disk (the Grub in my non-virtualized Ubuntu hangs if there's USB media attached at boot time).
If you can run full Ubuntu on a VM, you can try downgrading it by removing the xserver-xorg package, or changing the default runlevel.
If all you want is a Linux consule, you can install Debian 6 without any GUI components.