# \#virtualmachine **URL:** https://community.metabrainz.org/tag/virtualmachine/212.md [Latest](https://community.metabrainz.org/latest.md) · [Categories](https://community.metabrainz.org/categories.md) · [Tags](https://community.metabrainz.org/tags.md) --- ## [JTLYK - The new Solr9 search server works fine](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/jtlyk-the-new-solr9-search-server-works-fine/763311)
**Author:** [@InvisibleMan78](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/InvisibleMan78)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [June 1, 2025, 11:55am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/jtlyk-the-new-solr9-search-server-works-fine/763311 "2025-06-01T11:55:10Z")
The adjusted instructions for the new docker container with Solr9 works just fine. The improved output also helps us to understand what is going on: Fri May 30 10:08:39 AM UTC 2025: Done fetching MusicBrainz Solr backu… --- ## [How to setup search server and replication on mirror server?](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/how-to-setup-search-server-and-replication-on-mirror-server/504210)
**Author:** [@greengeek](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/greengeek)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [November 19, 2020, 8:55am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/how-to-setup-search-server-and-replication-on-mirror-server/504210 "2020-11-19T08:55:25Z")
I followed the instructions on musicbrainz-server/INSTALL.md at master · metabrainz/musicbrainz-server · GitHub to setup a mirror server. Everything worked great other than some issues with missing css, which I have cre… --- ## [CSS not showing up on standalone MusicBrainz Server](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/css-not-showing-up-on-standalone-musicbrainz-server/504209)
**Author:** [@greengeek](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/greengeek)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [November 19, 2020, 8:38am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/css-not-showing-up-on-standalone-musicbrainz-server/504209 "2020-11-19T08:38:36Z")
I followed the instructions at https://github.com/metabrainz/musicbrainz-docker and was able to bring up a MusicBrainz server at http://my-ip-address:5000 Everything appears to be working other than the page layout is a… --- ## [My honey moon with VirtualBox MB server was short lived, please help troubleshoot](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/my-honey-moon-with-virtualbox-mb-server-was-short-lived-please-help-troubleshoot/445319)
**Author:** [@jrsousa2](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/jrsousa2)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 28, 2019, 4:38am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/my-honey-moon-with-virtualbox-mb-server-was-short-lived-please-help-troubleshoot/445319 "2019-09-28T04:38:59Z")
This is why I fear using these pseudo-fancy open-source OS’s, they are arcane and impractical, you have to spend a long time typing insanely long sequences of commands to achieve things that should be simple and done aut… --- ## [Musicbrainz-docker issue](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/musicbrainz-docker-issue/422676)
**Author:** [@ridhoq](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/ridhoq)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 1, 2019, 2:29pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/musicbrainz-docker-issue/422676 "2019-04-01T14:29:17Z")
Hi there: I’m on a mission to deploy musicbrainz to a kubernetes cluster using the docker-compose configs and Dockerfiles on musicbrainz-docker. I was starting this work this weekend and noticed an issue when trying to… --- ## [MusicBrainz Sample Virtual Machine](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/musicbrainz-sample-virtual-machine/412937)
**Author:** [@imerix](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/imerix)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 12, 2019, 2:46pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/musicbrainz-sample-virtual-machine/412937 "2019-01-12T14:46:25Z")
Hello. I have downloaded MusicBrainz Sample Virtual Machine (Virtual Box), version: 2018-08-14. After start of Ubuntu VM in VirtualBox, I need to login. What are user credentials? I tried login “vm” and password “musicbr… --- ## [Musicbrainz data dumps](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/musicbrainz-data-dumps/409115)
**Author:** [@rozikarozika](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/rozikarozika)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [December 12, 2018, 7:18am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/musicbrainz-data-dumps/409115 "2018-12-12T07:18:12Z")
Hey there everyone, I have been fiddling around with the MusicBrainz data dumps. I downloaded all of them, unzipped them and opened the files with notepad. I don’t have any programming skills so I thought I would just c… --- ## [Updated VM available for replication/reindexation test](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/updated-vm-available-for-replication-reindexation-test/390477)
**Author:** [@yvanzo](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/yvanzo)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [August 16, 2018, 4:27pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/updated-vm-available-for-replication-reindexation-test/390477 "2018-08-16T16:27:28Z")
Hi, Last week, @rob built a new test VM which is now available for final test: Replication (with no much change) Reindexation (with an updated build of search server/indexer) Both features require an access tok… --- ## [How to use database-dumps with the virtual machine image](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/how-to-use-database-dumps-with-the-virtual-machine-image/390132)
**Author:** [@Whistler2010](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/Whistler2010)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [July 31, 2018, 2:54pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/how-to-use-database-dumps-with-the-virtual-machine-image/390132 "2018-07-31T14:54:40Z")
I can’t find a working way to import the database-dumps in the vm. Running the replication for the last ten month will take at least a week, so I hope it’s possible to import the dumps to speed things up… --- ## [Trying to access MB database through pgAdmin and VirtualBox](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/trying-to-access-mb-database-through-pgadmin-and-virtualbox/157191)
**Author:** [@Volod](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/Volod)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [June 26, 2018, 5:30pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/trying-to-access-mb-database-through-pgadmin-and-virtualbox/157191 "2018-06-26T17:30:47Z")
Hi, I’m completely new to server/database gestion (i’m a statistician) and having hard time to access MB database through pgAdmin. I would like to query the database to construct my own csv dataset for statistical analy… --- ## [Restarting VM sometimes causes server to not restart](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/restarting-vm-sometimes-causes-server-to-not-restart/301641)
**Author:** [@serialbandicoot](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/serialbandicoot)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 10, 2017, 9:11am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/restarting-vm-sometimes-causes-server-to-not-restart/301641 "2017-07-10T09:11:42Z")
I've got the latest MusicBrainz VM (2016-12-20) and after indexing and restarting the machine, I've found that the VM won't restart correctly and when I goto localhost:5000 or 8080, I get no response. I've tried reseti… --- ## [VM: Don't try to reindex! You'll end in a non working search server](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/vm-dont-try-to-reindex-youll-end-in-a-non-working-search-server/278622)
**Author:** [@InvisibleMan78](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/InvisibleMan78)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [June 1, 2017, 6:18am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/vm-dont-try-to-reindex-youll-end-in-a-non-working-search-server/278622 "2017-06-01T06:18:56Z")
If you actually try to execute the command bin/reindex you will get this error: Exception in thread "main" org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: ERROR: column w.language does not exist Unfortunately, as a result you don't… --- ## [Virtual Machine - slower than original server?](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/virtual-machine-slower-than-original-server/266186)
**Author:** [@mey](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/mey)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [May 14, 2017, 2:45pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/virtual-machine-slower-than-original-server/266186 "2017-05-14T14:45:17Z")
Hey everybody, first, thanks for the great work! I have a question concerning the speed of accessing the virtual machines database from the host system. I just settet the VM up, started the replication and while runn… --- ## [Create a postgres DB after preconfiguring the virtual image](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/create-a-postgres-db-after-preconfiguring-the-virtual-image/217602)
**Author:** [@BraunLon](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/BraunLon)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 24, 2017, 1:38am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/create-a-postgres-db-after-preconfiguring-the-virtual-image/217602 "2017-02-24T01:38:28Z")
Hi, I'm new to MB. I've just installed the MB server on virtualbox Ubuntu machine using the preconfigured virtual image. I'm trying to access the MB data base - where does it exist? Do I need to build it some how in my v… --- ## [Memory leak in the new VM?](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/memory-leak-in-the-new-vm/216711)
**Author:** [@andreivolgin](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/andreivolgin)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 22, 2017, 2:26pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/memory-leak-in-the-new-vm/216711 "2017-02-22T14:26:37Z")
I have a program that runs against a MB server. With the old VM it was always successfully completing, taking around 2-3 days of non-stop processing. With the new VM it fails within 15 min to 3 hours with 2GB of memory, … --- ## [Converting to qemu (latest server edition)](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/converting-to-qemu-latest-server-edition/201378)
**Author:** [@boblablah](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/boblablah)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2017, 12:59am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/converting-to-qemu-latest-server-edition/201378 "2017-01-31T00:59:36Z")
I am using ubuntu 16.04, and the server itself keeps coming up showing aborted in less than 24 hours in virtualbox. I searched the error on the virtualbox support tracker and found a matching bug... no fix yet. It's sp… --- ## [Replicated Server](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/replicated-server/170851)
**Author:** [@allogic](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/allogic)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 30, 2016, 10:52pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/replicated-server/170851 "2016-12-30T22:52:23Z")
Any idea how long before the availability to use the (new) replication VM server new release? I've tried the beta server but it does not work after I reboot it, as in the service does not start for listening on port 50… --- ## [Howto delete logs from MB Virtual Machine?](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/howto-delete-logs-from-mb-virtual-machine/162166)
**Author:** [@InvisibleMan78](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/InvisibleMan78)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [October 26, 2016, 4:13pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/howto-delete-logs-from-mb-virtual-machine/162166 "2016-10-26T16:13:44Z")
The logs in my MB Virtual Machine gets longer and longer with docker-compose logs How can I delete one specific (or all the) logs? --- ## [Musicbrainz-server-2016-08-15-beta1.ova / Provided access token is invalid / Replication fails](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/musicbrainz-server-2016-08-15-beta1-ova-provided-access-token-is-invalid-replication-fails/115828)
**Author:** [@InvisibleMan78](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/InvisibleMan78)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [August 22, 2016, 7:35am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/musicbrainz-server-2016-08-15-beta1-ova-provided-access-token-is-invalid-replication-fails/115828 "2016-08-22T07:35:25Z")
I have downloaded and started the newest VM beta version from ftp://ftp.eu.metabrainz.org/pub/musicbrainz-vm/ If I use exact the same access token which still works fine with the last official VM with the command bin/re… --- ## [Virtual Machine - Vagrant & Virtualbox test steps](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/virtual-machine-vagrant-virtualbox-test-steps/106334)
**Author:** [@InvisibleMan78](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/InvisibleMan78)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [August 17, 2016, 7:48am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/virtual-machine-vagrant-virtualbox-test-steps/106334 "2016-08-17T07:48:14Z")
According to @Freso and @rob in Making sure you're not a bot! I have completed the test installation twice - both worked so far. Steps for everyone else to test (even those running windows with a virtualization softwar…