Error VT-x not available for Vagrant machine inside Virtualbox

You can only use one virtual CPU without VT-x. Thus, the error message stating that VT-x isn’t enabled is caused by the following line: vb.customize [“modifyvm”, :id, “–cpus”, “2”] Replacing it with the following works (Vagrant has a shorthand for setting the CPU count): vb.cpus = 1 NOTE: You can only run 32-bit VMs inside … Read more

What exactly do shadow page tables (for VMMs) do?

Shadow page tables are used by the hypervisor to keep track of the state in which the guest “thinks” its page tables should be. The guest can’t be allowed access to the hardware page tables because then it would essentially have control of the machine. So, the hypervisor keeps the “real” mappings (guest virtual -> … Read more

When trying to install OS in Hyper-V, it ignores boot order and goes to “Start PXE over IPv4” instantly

Try disabling Secure boot in the “Security” section of the settings. I had the same problem with a gen2 Linux vm (running in Hyper-V Manager 10.0.17763.1). Turning off “Enable Secure Boot” allowed booting from an .iso. I think in some other versions of Hyper-V Manager the setting is under “Firmware”

Docker Processes Shown on Host Process List

This seems to be a common misconception about Docker being lightweight virtual machine” that is why some might expect similar behavior as VirtualBox or VMWare but just faster. Docker does not use virtualization, so all processes run by the native host kernel just isolated from each other. Non-root user cannot kill processes inside container, but … Read more

virt-manager guest resize not working

Make sure guest resizing is enabled in virt-manager: Menu View -> Scale Display -> Auto resize VM with window (Checked) Make sure your have a spice agent on your guest (the virtual machine) https://www.spice-space.org/download.html#guest ‘spice-vdagent’ on linux ‘spice-guest-tools’ on windows How I figured this out, I found a setting in “spicy” that I assumed had … Read more

Hata!: SQLSTATE[HY000] [1045] Access denied for user 'divattrend_liink'@'localhost' (using password: YES)