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The guest is an android (close enough to linux, I hope :) ) provided by an outside source. Since I don't run one of their "approved" distributions, I am not getting much advice from them (other than "it should work"), even though the virtuabox (binary) works fine wath other virtu...

Hi, I need to send all of the network traffic on a guest machine through a tunnel (call it localhost:2000) on the host machine. It seems simple (in theory), but I am having difficulty setting it up. I have a network adapter set to a bridged network, and both the host and guest can ping each other, b...

Have you tried using the uuid instead of the full path to the vdi file? I used: VBoxManage modifyhd <uuid> --type immutable Works fine for me :) Now I feel more lost than ever. When I ran VBoxManage, it appeared to work correctly (making the disk image immutable). The problem is that I can't seem t...

Which VirtualBox version number? I originally created the virtual machine (and ran into the problem) on 3.2.12. I have since upgraded to 4.0.0 (hoping, but not really expecting, that it would help). Somebody moved this to post "VirtualBox on Windows Hosts." As seems obvious (at least to m...

I obviously don't understand something very basic here. After many hours of configuration, I finally have the guest os image exactly the way I want it. So I want to make it immutable. I did: VBoxManage modifyhd /FULL/path/to/disk/image.vdi settype immutable Now I get a message: The selected virtual ...