Ubuntu is slow, mouse flickers in vmware
NoOp
glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Fri Sep 19 16:56:07 UTC 2008
On 09/18/2008 12:59 PM, tchomby wrote:
> Hey,
> in order to record some Ubuntu screencasts using Camtasia I'm running Ubuntu
> in Windows XP as a virtual machine, using VMWare. (I need Windows to run
> Camtasia, I did try creating the screencasts using linux tools but it wasn't
> going to work, long story.) It works, but the problem is that Ubuntu is
> quite slow under VMWare, and the mouse pointer flickers whenever something
> is loading, even though I do have vmware-tools installed. This is an Ubuntu
> 8.04 virtual machine by the way. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
>
>
>From the VirtualBox list, it appears you are using VB now - hope that
works out better.
These might be of interest to you:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ScreencastTeam/RecordingScreencasts
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ScreenCasts/Subtitles
That is how these screencasts are recorded:
http://screencasts.ubuntu.com/
The reason for using the above methods are listed in the FAQ:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ScreencastTeam/FAQ
[Why don't you just use something like Istanbul or Recordmydesktop?]
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