Ubuntu and virtualization.

[Sundar Raman]

I've been running both Virtualbox and VMWare (on both Ubuntu and OSX) for a
while, and also been playing around with Xen on Amazon's EC2. I have not run
into the specific issue you mention, but that's because my graphics card
sucks on my desktop and it would not be able to handle 3d acceleration :)

There's a lot to look into virtualization-wise - I'm hoping to have a
BarCamp in Fairfield in the next month focused on virtualization and cloud
computing if anyone's interested (I'd like to get suggestions on specific
areas to cover and I can try to find the appropriate people for them).

I did run into the panel (menu bar) missing problem a while back. The
solution was what's documented here:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-panel/+question/39437.
Basically I had to reinstall gnome-panel after removing evolution messed
stuff up. But this was with Ubuntu and not Xubuntu, so maybe there's
something else going on there.

Cheers

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Dave Kemper <dave at davekemper.com> wrote:

> Has anyone worked much with VMWare or Virtual Box?
>
> Has anyone checked out the 3D acceleration support in Virtual Box?
> I had to turn 3D acceleration support off in my Ubuntu 8.10 VM, it was
> causing my system to run slow, abort at boot up, required reinstall of
> Guest Extensions to properly size the screen to my laptop screen in full
> screen mode. I have heard that this support is experimental.
>
> By the way, I'm running Kubuntu 8.10 AMD64 as a host on a laptop with
> Core 2 Duo, 1.3Ghz, 2 Gig, 300Gig SATA. My production VM is Ubuntu 8.10
> I386, 512Meg, 8Gig.
>
> I originally installed Xubuntu 8.10 AMD64 as a host due to its light
> weight desktop needing fewer resources, hoping to leave more processor
> cycles for the VM's I run. I quickly hosed the Xubuntu install by adding
> various programs and configurations when I got lazy and didn't boot the
> VM. The final straw was when I lost my menu bars and could not figure
> how to recover them. Kind of hard to do anything from a GUI without
> menus. My depth of CLI experience and understanding of the inner
> workings of Linux are too weak to resolve the missing menu issue. I have
> noticed postings of other people loosing there menus on laptops in
> Ubuntu and Xubuntu with various recommendations to recover with limited
> success.
>
> This was my opportunity to install Kubuntu 64 bit on the 120 Gig
> unpartitioned space on my hard drive. i left the Xubuntu install so I
> could quickly copy files from the old host system to the new host
> system, including my production VM and the other VM's I was testing.
>
> Back to the original questions? What has been your experience with
> virtualization?
>
> Dave K.
>
>
>
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