Virtual Machine

I was wondering what the best setup for a VM was, I have an i5-4590 (quad core) and want to run a Windows 7 VM but am wondering if it would be better to have 4 cores run at 50% efficiency or 2 cores at 100%. What would give me the best performance on the guest and the least stress on the host?

Hi gurus! Im trying to run a virtual box in my pc (WIN8, x64 ) everytime i attemp to run the Virtual drive, i'm having this error : Failed to open a session for the virtual machine Felixe. The virtual machine 'Felixe' has terminated unexpectedly during startup with exit code 1. Result Code...

In the vSphere Web Client a Virtual Machine's console won't launch. No errors. No big deal I can troubleshoot that. However, the preview of the desktop is what confuses me. Usually when viewing a VM's Summary in vCenter, there is a preview of what the VM is displaying. Instead there's a...

I've been searching for a good laptop/2-in-1 tablet for school and coding between classes when I have time. The most I have planned is remoting into my desktop, coding, and the possibility of running a couple of server 2008/2012 VMs. I can always use VMs on my desktop and remote in with my...

Is there any program that would allow running mustiple os es on a pc (something like vmware vSphere) but capable of using gpu acceleration of a pc it runs on and showing desktops on the monitors attached? So I can run windows and linux simultaneously, not running one inside another. sorry for my...

I'm still learning a number of things about computers as I am still in college, everything I do is just playing around with different configurations and branching off into areas of unfamiliarity. My question is how schools deploy a VM to their computers? Also, is there a server where all the...

I have 64-bit Windows 8 and I want to play some old Windows games I have around the house. A virtual machine seems like the only real option. Rough guess, how long would it take to load something like VMware with Windows 95? I ask because I'm running XBMC as the Windows shell, and I'm aiming for...

Win 8.1 host with Win XP3 guest. I used VirtualBox to build the vm. I've got my legacy scanners set up but the printer (Epson Stylus Photo 2200) isn't seen by the vm. Not sure if setting it up as a networked printer to share between host & guest would work and how to do that. Printer is...

Every time I try to open up Eclipse it says: "A Java Runtime Environment (JRE) or Java Development Kit (JDK) must be available in order to run Eclipse. No Java virtual machine was found after searching the following locations: C:\Eclipse\eclipse\jre\bin\javaw.exe javaw.exe in your current PATH"...

My Windows 7 Home Premium can't create a virtual machine, I want to upgrade to windows 7 Professional, in order to install Windows virtual machine. Will that solve the problem?

When I press play in SimpleMC a java error window pops up with the following information: Window title: Java Virtual Machine Launcher Error: A Java Exception has occured That is the only information the error window provides. I have tried: Completely removing Java(deleted remaining java...

Is it possible to simulate/emulate my exact hardware on a virtual machine? I want to be able to test certain OS features functionality and drivers, but doing this in a virtual machine seems pointless, because the hardware it emulates is generic. For example, I want to see how my system reacts...

I'm not sure where to put this thread, but here it goes. I have a few machines that I have double- and triple-booted -- various versions of Windows, OSX and linux. So I was wondering if I could use a Virtual machine and run the OS that is already installed on the harddrive while on another OS...

I don't know what i did wrong, but this comes up EVERY time I try to install any OS.. :( Any ideas? https://www.dropbox.com/s/cx8trczc7vr48u0/adasdasd.PNG

If Java causes some trouble, you may get the error message "Could not create the Java Virtual Machine." This tutorial will help you solve the issue. When that happens, the easiest solution that has been tested on Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows 8 is: ■ Open the Control Panel ■ Go to...

Hope this is the right forum. So I ordered my new SFF build: i5 4670k GTX 770 2 GB 16 GB RAM What, what?! That was exactly my thought process as I woke up this morning. I held back on the GTX 780 as its substantially more than the 770 and on the screen sizes I'm playing on, getting the...

I am trying to figure a few things out so I can find out the best way to hook up my 47 inch tv. I already have it connected to my PC (via a 50ft HDMI cable) and everything work perfectly with no video lag or audio problems, but I want to be able to work on the big screen and my desk separately...

Hi all, Im looking to buy a new laptop that will be used both for gaming (specifically guild wars 2) and running multiple virtual machines on (Win 8 Hyper-V). I would ideally like 2 hhds in it and 16gb of ram. It looks like most prebuilt machines go crazy on pricing for ram and installed hhd...

For somereason when I use virtual machine to load Windows XP the flash drive doesn't load on Windows XP and it loads on Windows 7. How do I make the USB work so I can use my flash drive? It has alot of my files there and I wanted to put it on the XP system as well. The USB mouse has no problem...

Hi, I have been debating for a while now whether or not to switch over to ubuntu for my main os and run windows virtually with virtual box. The only thing is that I do a lot of gaming and I don't the greatest hardware so I was wondering if anyone knew if there would be a severe performance lose...