I use PuTTY to connect to my Vagrant boxes on Windows7. Make sure you convert the %USERPROFILE%\.vagrant.d\insecure_private_key to .ppk using PuTTYGen use the .ppk key in your PuTTY session – configured in Connection > SSH > Auth > Private key file use host 127.0.0.1 use port 2222 instead of 22 you can set the default … Read more
My shared folder/clipboard stopped to work for some reason (probably due to a patch installation on my virtual machine). sudo mount -t vboxsf Shared_Folder ~/SF/ Gave following result: VirtualBox: mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: No such device The solution for me was to stop vboxadd and do a setup after that: cd /opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-*/init sudo … Read more
As mentioned in the docs, boxes are stored at: Mac OS X and Linux: ~/.vagrant.d/boxes Windows: C:/Users/USERNAME/.vagrant.d/boxes
An excellent 2014 IBM research paper “An Updated Performance Comparison of Virtual Machines and Linux Containers” by Felter et al. provides a comparison between bare metal, KVM, and Docker containers. The general result is: Docker is nearly identical to native performance and faster than KVM in every category. The exception to this is Docker’s NAT — if you … Read more
To exit Scale Mode, press: Right Ctrl (Host Key) + c Note that your (Host Key) may be different from Right Ctrl. To check the current binding, go to VirtualBox Preferences > Input > Virtual Machine > Host Key Combination.
Googling turned this up: http://data.agaric.com/localhost-from-virtualbox-xp-install-ubuntu It suggests using IP: http://10.0.2.2, and it worked for me. So, I edited the hosts file, C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts, and added this entry: 10.0.2.2 outer If you’re testing on IE8, remember to put http:// in the address bar. Just putting the ip directly will not work. For example: http://10.0.2.2:3000/