Ubuntu and virtualization.

[Dave Kemper]

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.