When I migrated my home computer to new hardware with Windows 11, the VirtualBox VMs started working too slow. They are completely unusable. Even though the new hardware configuration is more powerful than the old PC, it was a real … more
VirtualBox has a shared folder feature that allows accessing the host computer’s physical hard drive partition and folders from the virtual machine. Once the VirtualBox guest additions are correctly installed, this can be enabled easily by doing additional steps. But … more
This guide explains how to do VirtualBox P2V in Windows host OS. By this method, you can convert a physical computer which could be local or on the network (remote computer) to a virtual environment. The method is not straightforward … more
VirtualBox has a built-in server with a Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) service that allows users to connect to virtual machines remotely from another computer. This method is called ‘Remote Display’. This guide explains how to set it up, connect and … more
Attaching a SATA storage controller in VirtualBox is straightforward. Sometimes, you need to attach SATA hard disks to specific virtual machines rather than the default IDE disks. This post explains how to add SATA hard disk (virtual disk) to virtual … more
If you have a pre-configured VirtualBox VM with the XML file, you can easily add it to the VMs list in VirtualBox. Usually, when we create a new VM from the interface, it comes under the VMs list. But if … more
After installing Ubuntu (or any Linux flavours) on Windows host using VirtualBox, if you get an error “You do not have the permissions necessary to view the contents of sf shared folder name” while accessing the shared folders, let me … more
In the world of virtualization, VMDK and VDI are two important disk file formats. VMDK is used by VMware Workstation, while VDI is used by Oracle VirtualBox. In this article, we will show how to convert a VMDK file to … more