Virtualization

Here you will find our tutorials that deal with virtualization on your PC and Mac. Virtual machines allow you to test software or make some experiments in configuring operating systems or apps without any risk to your work or home machine. For instance, a lot of geeks use virtual machines to test beta versions of Windows 10 and Windows Server. On top of that, you may use a VM even to improve your privacy. Thus, you don’t need to buy another computer for any of this purposes.

How to Restore Hyper-V Virtual Machine from VHDX-File in Windows 10 or Server

2020-09-112019-01-30 by Adam Swift

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Today we will explain how to cope with a quite common problem – your Hyper-V virtual machine is not working and you face an error when you try to start it. In my case I faced the following error message:

Error applying SCSI Controller changes
... failed to add resources to [virtual machine]. 
An unexpected error occurred: The specific network resource or device is no longer available. (0x80070037).

From this guide you will know how to recover your VM without reinstalling the operating system on it from a scratch. All you need to have is at least the virtual hard disk file (.vhdx).

Allow Remote Access to Hyper-V VM from LAN & Internet – Create External Switch

2019-01-13 by Adam Swift

In this article I will explain how to make your Hyper-V virtual machines accessible from non-management host computers or other devices connected to your home of office network (LAN).

For that purpose you need to create an external virtual switch in Hyper-V Manager . And this is the article is actually about.

Hyper-V: Disable “Do you want to revert to the previous automatic checkpoint”

2019-01-08 by Adam Swift

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In this guide you will learn how to disable the message “Do you want to revert to the previous automatic checkpoint” when you are starting the Hyper-V virtual machine. So, you won’t break your left mouse button clicking on “Continue” each time.

How to Upgrade Windows 7 or 8.1 to Windows 10 on VirtualBox VM

2020-05-142017-05-29 by Adam Swift

This article is about how to upgrade your Virtualbox virtual machine to Windows 10. The thing is if you just start your VM and begin upgrading you may encounter some errors making the update process stop. Besides that Windows 10 can run too slowly if you leave CPU and RAM settings that are minimal for Windows 7.

Windows 10 works slowly on Virtualbox. How to speed up?

2020-09-092016-03-10 by Adam Swift

The problem: Windows 10 works slowly on Virtualbox virtual machine, while Windows 7 is fast and snappy. You may see similar situations on the Internet forums. People often ask “Why is my Windows 10 so slow on virtualbox VM? I have Core i7, 16 GB of RAM, I assigned 4 cores of CPU and 4 GB of RAM to the virtual machine but the CPU usage is 100% all the time! Svchost.exe process is loading CPU to 100%” Let us see what are the possible reasons of low performance and how to speed up Windows 10 on virtual machine.