Hackintosh 10.10 Yosemite VMware with "activation" issues
Hey, so I have a vm with Yosemite 10.10 working, I can sign into app store it recognizes my account and everything, but when I attempt to use Message , OR Facetime 1. Asks me to sign in = succeed 2....
View Articlegetting slower in VirtualBox, disk is very busy
I'm running Windows 8.1 (upgraded from Windows 7 SP1) in VirtualBox on Ubuntu 14.04. This setup has been satisfactory for many months. In recent weeks the Windows boot has the hard disk running...
View ArticleVMWare Workstation hangs up guest VMs in full screen mode
I have a 3-monitor desktop setup running Windows 8.1 (as a host OS.) I use one monitor exclusively to run VMWare Workstation 10. When VMWare first loads up at host PC boot I click "Enter full screen...
View ArticleVirtualization issue with VMWare and Cloudera
I have tried solving this issue through several different tutorials including the ones on this forum. Regardless of what I do to initialize the Hyper-V Platform (UEFI does not exist as an option so I...
View Articlehyper v no sound
Why after all this time hasn't Microsoft upgraded hyper v with sound drivers? I use virtualbox just because of that. weird though, in xp mode win7 computer at work I do have sound.
View ArticleHyper-V connection sharing kills my host's connection
I'm using a setup where I have an ethernet connection on my host (Windows 8.1) set to share with a Hyper-V internal switch, then my VM (Windows Server 2008) connects to that. It works for a while (i.e....
View ArticleApps don t stay on taskbar windows 8 via citrix
Hi all, I m using windows 8 at home and at work. I pinned many apps to my startbar at home and at work. At my workplace I have to remap these apps to the taskbar everyday. They don t stay located after...
View Article"Sorry, there was a problem mounting the file"
Whenever I try to mount an ISO file trying it to open with Windows Explorer I get the following message: I found a solution in the web that works by copying the ISO to any location and mounting the...
View ArticleHow to connect my base machine to the VM with VS
Here I have a situation where my base machine is windows and I have 2 VM on hyper-v one is windows server and another one is linux. I want three of them in the same network connected. I don't have...
View ArticleHyper-V on Windows 8.1 is a 'Remote Session'?
SOLVED: Can't Access MSA or Change Display Setting in VM I'm teaching myself Hyper-V as an alternative to VMWare. I activated Hyper-V on Windows 8.1 and used it to create a Windows 10 virtual machine....
View ArticleNo Network connection Window 7 Pro guest under Hyper V
I have setup Hyper V on my Windows 8.1 laptop, the guest OS is Window 7 Pro. I have followed the eightforum how to http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/19359-hyper-v-virtual-switch-manager.html But...
View ArticleHyper V and VMWare on the same machine
Hi, I have many virtual machines in my VMWare Workstation install on Windows 7. I have now let Windows 8.1 lose on the bare metal of this machine as a dual booting system. I have enabled Hyper V on 8.1...
View ArticleCreating bootable image
As a proposed solution to restore an owner account, I need to create a bootable image of a HD that contains Vista as the OS Can this be done with the BackUP and Restore on my new unit with 8.1 Where is...
View ArticleShowstopper vmware and hyper-V incompatable
Hi everyone Found a mega show stopper here I MUST have VMware available on a laptop / workstation. If you enable HYPER-V on W8 then you can't start VMware I know if you use hyper-v you'll probably want...
View Articlevirtual box software question.
if I use this free install of virtual box to run XP as a virtual PC, will this virtual PC play my XP games? and will this work on a non-virtual 8.1 PC at the same time? I have several games that will...
View ArticleHow to add an existing VHD to boot menu? Please help.
Hello everyone! A few years ago I setup my computer with Windows 8/8.1 on the local hard drive C:, just as usual. Then I added to VHDs to th menu, one Win 8.1 for games and one Windows Server 2012 R2...
View ArticleLow Perfomance on Virtualized Windows 8.1
In VirtualBox, Microsoft Virtual PC(Here somethimes drivers dont work) and Vmware player & workstacion With Recommended Settings Or Using max 3.5 GB of RAM even grapchis memory and its Slow, More...
View ArticleUse disk drive in VMware Workstation
Greetings, I recently purchased an old game which I sued to play, and it broke my Windows 8 laptop. Don't ask how, I think it was something to do with the boot configuration when I installed it, as the...
View ArticleWin+Shift+Esc shortcut for task manager only works on the left side ?
I recently installed Win 8 Enterprise 90 days trial using Virtualbox. I tried Ctrl+Shift+Esc to bring up the task manager, but it apparently works on only the left ctrl and left shift keys.. Is this a...
View ArticleVirtual drive deleted
I have a serious problem that I have never experienced previously so I am posting it here and asking for your thoughts. Not 60 minutes ago I was sitting and reading online when I began to hear a...
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