2d chance at Unity

[NoOp]

On 04/18/2011 08:43 PM, Jim Byrnes wrote:
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> 
> I saw a link to the hardware requirements in another thread.  It wants 
> 512mb video ram and I can only give it 128 in a VM.  There are a lot of 
> smart people on this list and I am sure one of them has figured out how 
> to do it, but it's not worth the effort to me just to get an early peek 
> at Unity.  I'll wait for it to get out of beta and then put on my 
> laptop.  I'm running 10.04 on my main machine and I don't want to get to 
> adventuresome with it.

Jim, for the heck of it I installed VirtualBox 4.0.4 on the Windows 7
partition on my laptop (it also runs natty in it's own partition, so I
know natty w/Unity works on the machine). When I first booted into natty
it defaulted to GNOME 2 (Ubuntu Classic). I then installed:

http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
<quote>
    VirtualBox 4.0.5 Guest Additions pre-release. The Guest Additions in
the VirtualBox 4.0.4 packages do not support the most recent Linux
distribution versions with X.Org Server 1.10 and version 2.6.38 of the
Linux kernel. If you install such a guest (e.g. Ubuntu 11.04 or Fedora
15) you should use this Guest Additions pre-release. If you use an older
Linux distribution as a guest there is no need to download it. Download
</quote>

rebooted, and it now comes up with the Unity desktop. Note: I only have
128MB Video Memory assigned & I do have 3D enabled.

So installed:
VirtualBox 4.0.4
VirtualBox 4.0.4 Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack
VirtualBox 4.0.5 Guest Additions pre-release
and it's working a-ok. Go back to Settings|Display & tick 'Enable 3D
Acceleration' & start the VM. After natty boots, install VirtualBox
4.0.5 Guest Additions pre-release & restart the VM.

NB: I need to patch a few things in VMWare Player to get that working...
but VirtualBox is working.