Gutsy under VMware Fusion on a new Intel Mac

[Leslie Wright]

It took a few hours overnight, but my upgrade to 7.10 completed 
successfully. Those who run Ubuntu as a virtual machine on a Mac may 
find this interesting.

So far, I haven't encountered any huge problems. 7.10 does seem to take 
much longer to boot up though. I have lost the scrolling action of the 
middle mouse button that I was there under 7.04. And it appears to me 
that the repainting of the Ubuntu window when one resizes it seems a bit 
slower. Also, I have noticed that occasionally the mouse cursor gets 
"stuck" in the corners or edges of the window, and one must execute 
control-Command to unfreeze it--Fusion users will know what I am talking 
about. I needed to reinstall VMware Tools, and I expected that this 
utility does not have everything it needs yet to be seamlessly 
compatible with Gutsy. I am hoping that the VMware developers are aware 
of this and in subsequent upgrades VMware Tools best accommodates the 
new OS. It is noteworthy that under Gutsy the VMware drivers appear on 
the restricted drivers list. Never saw this warning under Feisty, where 
all worked smoothly.

A big plus for me is the upgrade to OpenOffice 2.3. I found some 
cosmetic issues with version 2.2 in the creation of PDF files that drove 
me a little nuts and discouraged me from using Ubuntu for word 
processing. I have tested some of my "problem" files with 2.3, and all 
seems resolved. I am also pleased to see that Gutsy packs with 
Thunderbird as well as Evolution--as a long time Netscape Mail user, I 
far prefer the former.

I don't hear much from others here about using Ubuntu as a virtual 
machine with another OS. Perhaps that is the very point :) At any rate, 
I thought I would share a few observations on my particularly experience.

Les
Toronto