no installation of programs during a live session in virtualbox

[Istimsak Abdulbasir]

Thanks for the link. My machine that I use to run vbox does not support
hardware virtualization. So I am only able to run 32bit guests with low
performance. Least now that I know.


On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund at gmail.com> wrote:

> Maybe this is your problem:
>
> Vbox works with 32-bit systems without virtualization enabled, but if
> you (can) enable it in BIOS and select it in the settings of the virtual
> machine, vbox will be faster with 32-bits and will start to work with
> 64-bit systems (provided your host system has 64 bits). See this link
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2131037
>
> Or maybe vbox is slow, because your host system is not really powerful
> enough to run vbox, or because you have so little memory allocated, that
> Xubuntu in vbox starts swapping.
>
>
> On 2013-04-20 13:34, Istimsak Abdulbasir wrote:
> > Maybe it is my system itself. But I notice when installing packages on
> > xubuntu, the installation goes very slow, almost as if it is not
> > installing at all. This happens when testing using vbox. If I test on
> > bare metal, things work fine. I may have to do a little hardware
> > upgrading in the future.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 4:26 AM, Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund at gmail.com
> > <mailto:nio.wiklund at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 2013-04-20 05:38, Istimsak Abdulbasir wrote:
> >     > Has anybody experienced errors installing apps in a live ubuntu
> >     session
> >     > running in virtualbox?
> >     >
> >     > Istimsak Abdulbasir
> >     >
> >     >
> >     Specifically about Lubuntu Raring:
> >
> >     I have installed several packages. But recently, I was asked to
> install
> >
> >     apport-collect
> >
> >     to report a bug in Lubuntu desktop i386 (in vbox). But it wouldn't
> >     install properly, so I couldn't use it.
> >
> >     Other packages install well. Synaptic and apt-get have been working
> >     without issues since I started with beta testing. Also Lubuntu
> Software
> >     Center is working now. I notice no difference between vbox and hard
> >     metal sessions concerning installing apps.
> >
> >
>
>
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