Windows 10: Unable to ping Virtual Machine from Host – VMware or VirtualBox

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When a host cannot ping a virtual machine, the problem is almost always caused by the VM’s network mode isolating it from the host, mismatched IP subnets, or a firewall blocking ICMP. In this post, we are going to see what you can do if you are unable to ping the virtual machine from the host, be […]

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Installing a Virtual Machine in Windows 10

Step #1 is to decide which virtual machine software you wish to install.

The three most popular choices are:

• VirtualBox (from Oracle)
• VMWare Workstation Player (from VMWare); and
• Hyper-V (from Microsoft)

Once you've made your choice you can find detailed, illustrated instructions for installing each one on the internet.

As a personal suggestion: You might find it easier to use either VirtualBox or VMWare Workstation Player. Hyper-V is more complicated to setup.

Between VirtualBox and VMWare, I think you'll find VirtualBox more user-friendly, and it has the advantage of allowing you to create checkpoints - backups of your virtual machine - whereas to do that in VMWare you'll need to upgrade to their (expensive!)
paid version.

 

VirtualBox or VMware

Hello

I am using Windows 10 Home and Hyper-V isn't available on this version of OS.

Hence I wanted to use Virtualbox or VMware to run virtual machine and as far as I know Hyper-V isn't even required, I own a HP laptop and cannot find Advanced tab in my BIOS setting to enable or disable Virtualization for 64-bit in Virtualbox.

Can I ever run VirtualBox or setup Virtual Machine via these software?

How to get Advance Tab under BIOS for HP laptop ?

Thanks

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Can Virtual Machines be transferable between machines?

tl;dr, sorry

Virtual machines, no. They are installed on their host computer.

Guest operating systems, yes. They are simply a very large VHDX file (or the equivalent in VirtualBox or VMWare) that can be moved from machine to machine. Of course, you need to do this according to the virtual machine's instructions.

But you must pay attention to the licensing. For the purposes of activation, a virtual machine is a separate computer.