This is also where you can set the install location. Click Next to continue. A new screen will warn you that the install wizard needs to reset your network connection. Click Yes to continue. Type in the name of your virtual machine. If not, you can select the operating system manually using the dropdown menu. Make sure you assign enough RAM to your new virtual box, or it will not work properly. Choose Create a virtual hard disk now if you are creating a brand new VM. Click Create to continue.
Choose if the new virtual hard disk has a fixed amount of space or if you want it to allocate space dynamically. Select Fixed size and click Next. Note: Just like with RAM, you need to make sure you assign enough hard disk space to your virtual machine. VirtualBox sets the fixed-size hard disk at 10GB by default. Select the new virtual machine you just created on the left-hand side of the VirtualBox starting screen.
Click Start to run the new VM. VirtualBox will prompt you to select a start-up disk. Click on the button next to the drop-down menu to open the optical Disk Selector. Find the Ubuntu Select the image and click Open. In the Optical Disk Selector , highlight the image you just added and click Choose.
After you install it on you virtual machine, you can configure Ansible by setting up the hosts inventory file and checking the connections. The third option is to use the Windows Subsystem for Linux to start up the Ubuntu terminal without setting up a virtual machine:. Open the Start menu and search for Turn Windows features on or off. I just stumbled upon a KB article that describes how to reset the hosts file to its original state.
The topic alone is funny enough — it is not as if the default hosts file contained great amounts of data. MSI that basically empties the hosts file.
Simple enough. But wait: bit systems have two system32 directories: one for bit processes and the other for bit processes. Now, where would the hosts file be located — or are there even two potentially different files?
The answer is: no, the hosts file exists only once on x64 Windows. And it is right where it belongs, in the bit system32 directory. Last active Jan 11, Code Revisions 5 Stars Forks Embed What would you like to do?
Embed Embed this gist in your website. Share Copy sharable link for this gist. Learn more about clone URLs. Download ZIP. Copy link. Don't ask me why. Additionally when i navigate on my explorer I see the file hosts but it's encoding when I open it See my answer here.
It's called brace yourselves , it's a super creative title : Hosts File Editor Very nice. Thank you, very good tutorial. Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment. You signed in with another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session.
You signed out in another tab or window. Friday, October 23, AM. Tim is correct and his method will work. Another way to do this is to drag a copy of the hosts file onto your desktop. Open it in Notepad, make your edits, and save the file. Drag the copy back to its original location. When asked if you want to replace the original, say YES.
Then you'll get an elevation prompt from UAC. Acknowledge the prompt and the edited hosts file will replace the original file. This works because when you copy the hosts file to the desktop, the permissions on the copy will allow editing by the standard user. Friday, October 23, PM. Very true Arthur, you can certainly do it that way. However, I prefer not to mess with permissions if I can help it, especially something within the system directory.
Using the Notepad method is quick just one extra click and also temporary since as soon as you close Notepad the Administrator token is discarded. As an update to this, if trying to edit the "hosts" file in Win 7 Found this on wiki, and it appears to be true.
Monday, March 14, PM. I tried to elevate the both notepad and cmd but still no luck, so I edited the host file from safe mode, it works perfectly. Friday, January 20, AM. Friday, January 27, AM. Dose not work for me at all. I run note pad as administrator - still get access denied. I can not change ownership or permissions of the file or the folder, even when antivirus is turned off. Even running in safe mode did not help. Friday, June 15, PM. Paulg3: Try the method that I described in my post above.
Saturday, June 16, AM. Login to an administrator account. Click on the tab called view.
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