Author: Dinesh
Dinesh is the founder of Sysprobs and written more than 400 articles. Enthusiast in Microsoft and cloud technologies with more than 15 years of IT experience.
Sometimes booting a virtual machine from USB is necessary to install an Operating System as a guest on VirtualBox if you do not have ISO file. Unfortunately, it is not supported by most of the desktop virtualization software as a built-in feature yet. The below guide explains the steps of how I managed to boot a VirtualBox virtual machine from USB on macOS and Windows host computers. This method will be useful if you have a bootable Live Linux on USB and you want to try that on VirtualBox. Oracle VirtualBox is one of the best and free desktop virtualization…
Windows 8 onwards, the Hyper-V hypervisor is part of Windows client Operating Systems. To compete with other free virtualization software such as VirtualBox, now you can have native virtualization software on your Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 computer. It enables us to install and play around with different types of guest OS virtual machines on a single Windows 8.1/10 desktop or laptop PC. Though the latest Windows OS can have Hyper-V, it mainly depends on the physical hardware of your computer. The computer processor and motherboard should support a few required specific features. If any of the hardware features are…
This guide will be showing you how to install the latest Fedora 30/29 with working VMware shared folders on Windows 10 host. Using the latest Linux version without rebooting between Operating Systems and modifying the boot loader on the physical hard disk gives a great advantage for computer users. Thanks to the virtualization software like VMware Workstation and VirtualBox. As Fedora is one of the best and free Linux distribution, using it with Windows 10 simultaneously can enable us to have Windows and Linux environment on the same computer. Steps to Download and Install Latest Fedora 30/29 on VMware 1)…
Though the performance of OS and network keep improving in every Windows updates, still the following methods will be helpful to make Windows 10, 8.1 and Windows 7 network faster. You might face network slowness issue on your Windows computer mostly when you try to access or make network communication (data transfer) with other older versions of Windows. Is Windows 10 network slow? This guide is going to help you a lot. The network is a major factor in computing. Windows 10/7 computers will be slow in accessing network shares on older MS Windows servers and non-MS Operating systems including…
Virtual CloneDrive is a free software we can use to mount ISO image files in Windows 7 and earlier Operating Systems like Vista and XP. As Windows 10 and 8.1 support mounting ISO files without 3rd party tools, if you are still using Windows 7, then you need a tool like VirtualCloneDrive. This utility makes life easy by mounting the ISO image to virtual CD/DVD drive in Windows Explorer without burning on real disks. Virtual Clone Drive is fully compatible with Windows 7 and earlier OS’s. Mount ISO Files in Windows 7 This is my favourite free software to mount…
Everybody likes to work with Mac OS X on a normal computer without buying the Mac Hardware. If you are one of them, you reached the correct place. This article explains how to install Mac OS X 10.5.5 Leopard on VirtualBox. We do not need to buy any additional hardware or software for this purpose. This method is only for testing purpose. Do not use as a permanent and production solution. Mac OS X 10.5.5 installation DVD is not required and this method will work with AMD and Intel processor X 86 computers as well. If you like to try…
Usually, the OS X installation DMG file will not work on the virtualization environment or non-mac computers. If we need to boot a virtual machine either on VMware or VirtualBox, we need to modify the installation medium to continue the Mac OS X installation. The guide will show you how to make a bootable Lion OS X image that can be used on VMware or any Intel-based physical computer. I managed to install Mac 10.7 Lion onto my Windows 7 32-bit by following the steps in this article! NOTE: The guide you are reading now was published over ten years…
Here is the way to get back the traditional start menu and start button back in Windows 2012 or 2012 R2 server operating systems. Like Windows 8, Windows 2012 and R2 servers also come without the start button and menu. Therefore you may feel uneasy while using this OS initially. If you like to get the start button/menu back, you can follow the below steps. It works well on Windows 2012 standard and data centre versions. Read Also: How to show my computer icon on Windows 2012/2012R2 Server. We will be using a third-party utility to get the classic start…