Tips for trying the Natty beta in a VM

[Michael Haney]

On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 7:53 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1 April 2011 16:14, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Handy hints on how to get it working in VBox:
>> http://pplware.sapo.pt/linux/ubuntu-11-04-natty-narwhal-no-virtualbox-com-unity/
>>
>> Não falo português? Past the above URL in here:
>> http://translate.google.com/
>>
>> Gacked from:
>> http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/first-look-ubuntu-1104-natty-narwhal-beta-1/12155?tag=nl.e539
>
> And, for what it's worth, it works, too. I am now running the Natty
> beta full-screen on my other monitor, with compositing etc. It's...
> odd. Noticeably better than alpha 3 was, though.
>

Not bad.  Gives up hope that the final release will be better than
what the Doom-Sayers claim.  I've heard that Win Vista/7 has issues
using compositing in Vbox, but DX9c and OpenGL apps in XP run fine in
Vbox with the video drivers installed.

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