Ubuntu Netbook Remix and VirtualBox

[David Gerard]

2009/9/16 Conrad Knauer <atheoi at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Michael Haney <thezorch at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Hi, due to a lack of disk space on my laptop I can't run Ubuntu in a
>> native partition on my laptop.  I run Xubuntu in VirtualBox, and it
>> runs fairly well at times despite my laptop being a mediocre Acer
>> Aspire.  I'm wondering, would Ubuntu Netbook Remix run well in
>> VirtualBox.  I'm going to try it anyway but I'd like some 3rd party
>> input if anyone has had experience do this.

> VirtualBox doesn't (AFAIK) pass along the 3D hardware acceleration
> that UNR needs for its graphical effects, so it's slow.


In any case, UNR is basically a slightly different interface for
GNOME. (In fact, "Switch Desktops" in Preferences can be used to
switch between the UNR interface and stock GNOME.) So it'll be just as
fat and slow, I mean, fully featured.


- d.