Couldn't Ping Or Ssh Linux Virtual Machine

hi guys,

im new here and new to linux, im currently running windows 8.1 but ive heard that linux is better than windows, and i want to drop windows forever, ive been using windows my entire life, it worked well enough but now windows 8.1 sucks and i want to use linux, its free and awesome.


im running debian wheezy 7.8 on a virtual machine i want to get to know it in the virtual machine and eventually move over to debian entirerly.

i was wondering if you guys knew some places where i could educate myself about debian and how it works?

i cant seems to play videos on debian, how can i into videos?

Want to format a 1 TB Western Digital drive in an old dell 32 bit machine. Machine has Lubuntu installed and a Virtual machine on which which is loaded Windows 7 (32 bit).

Machine does not "see" the new 1 TB (SATA) drive after I physically install it in the machine.

I have other windows and Linux machines. I have some drive cradles in which I can connect to (windows) USB ports.

Is it possible to use the old Dell machine to format the new drive?

(It appears that this question has been answered before. So I will check those materials as well.)

Thanks for any assistance.

Geoffrey Wolfe

Hello, My issue is very common but, not able to resolve it.

Issue I am facing with my Linux (RHEL-5 32-bit) machine, where I am not able to connect to internet.

DWR-113 - D-Link Router is configured for 3G dongle (Vodafone India) - This setup is done via WiFi and not using the provided LAN cable from Win7 machine.

Internet is working absolutely fine in case of Wireless but, at same time when LAN cable is used internet is not working. [Able to ping to Router IP i.e. 192.168.0.1)

Similarly, from Linux box, ping to Router IP is working [LAN plugged] but, Internet not working. IP of linux machine: 192.168.0.60

Also, able to get the console connection of Linux from Windows box..[Windows connected to Router via WiFi and Linux connected to Router via LAN cable]

Please suggest how to get rid of this problem so that Internet will work on Linux via LAN cable.

Many Thanks,

I have installed two virtual Linux(RHEL7)servers on VMWARE 11 and I need help on how to connect those servers to each other and my base machine is having windows 7 64 bit OS

So can anybody please help me out with this one

is it possible to set the time of the virtual machine according to the host system on which it is installed????
i tried to do it by enabling the "hardware clock in UTC time" in the Motherboard tab.. but it is giving me the time in UTC format.. but i want it in IST format.. can anyone help me in this.



Thanks in Advance

Hi there everybody,

I am getting really frustrated on a far to trivial problem. I am running ubuntu in virtual box on a windows 7 64bit machine. By default the screen has a resolution of 640x480 and thus only shows the upper left corner of the actual screen, meaning I can't see the entire screen. I was able to figure out, that I have to install guest additions but as soon as I go to devices -> install guest additions I get an error, that the medium couldn't be placed into the drive. It further asks me whether I want to force it to be mounted but if I say "yes" nothing else happens.

Any chance there is a simple way to solve this problem or is this really such a complicated issue?

Furthermore I would prevent linux from going into standby. Actually the settings say, that it will never go to suspend but it does so after it wasn't used for approx=. 5minutes or so.

Thank you guys very much for helping me getting rid of my newbeness :P

I have a virtual machine on VmWare 10.0.1
Right now I am trying to make it a web server, apache works and machine has access to the Internet and i can even ping it from other pc from my network but can not connect to it by telnet.
Iptables is set to let everything inside and outside apache works.
PS Sorry for the stupid questions and bad english.

Hi All

I'm trying to bring virtual guest from headless mode to gui mode in VirtualBox. But I don't know how to do it. I really appreciate if someone help me on this.

I usually run linux virtual machines in headless mode and connect to it through ssh. I have setup tigervnc-server on linux virtual machine, so that i can connect through vncviewer whenever i want to work on gui.

But recently, one of my friend said, I can also start virtual machine in headless mode in VirtualBox window by holding <SHIFT> key and press Start. Sure it did, it started in headless mode. But, now I don't know how to bring back window again.

Thanks you.

Hello,
Host machine: Windows seven 64 bit
Guest machine on Virtual box: Oracle linux 6.5(64 bit)

If there are multiple files sourced, each containing many variables,and each in a location not known to the person using a user,
is there a way to know the file name where the variable is set?

Many thanks

I have written a script to start a virtual machine through pass through mode and port number.

I start the guest linux through Run command from windows
telnet <baseIP> <portNUm>

Then after connecting to that guest machine,

each enter taking twice.

Any help will be greatful