Howto: SSH into VirtualBox 3 Linux Guests

In a previous post I wrote about using a TAP interface to be able to SSH into linux guests from the host [https://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2009/04/08/virtualbox-access-guests-via-a-virtual-interface/] . Since then changes in the newer versions of VirtualBox have seen the addition of a virtual interface on the…

VirtualBox: Error: Cannot register the hard disk

If when cloning VirtualBox VMs you get an error like this: $ VBoxManage clonehd WinXP-IE7.vdi WinXP-IE8.vdi VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 2.2.4 (C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. ERROR: Cannot register the hard disk '/home/scol/.VirtualBox/VDI/WinXP-IE7.vdi' with UUID…

Running VMware images under VirtualBox

I use the excellent VirtualBox on Ubuntu but I had a specific Debian dev environment VM that I'd previously run under VMware Fusion on my work mac when it used to have OSX on it ;-). The current versions of VirtualBox (2.2.4 in my case) support…

VirtualBox: Access Guests via a Virtual Interface

Note: I'm using VirtualBox 2.1.4 PUEL edition. With other versions YMMV. See comments for more info. Note: If you're using VBox 3.x then Howto: SSH into VirtualBox 3 Linux Guests [https://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2010/02/08/howto-ssh-into-virtualbox-3-linux-guests/] is more up to…