2d chance at Unity

[Jim Byrnes]

Lucio M Nicolosi wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:07 PM, Jim Byrnes<jf_byrnes at comcast.net>  wrote:
>> I installed Natty beta 2 in a VM, but I screwed up.  I didn't pay attention
>> to the machine settings.  Among other things I didn't check 3D Acceleration
>> or give it more video memory.  When it booted up I got a message saying I
>> didn't meet the hardware requirements for Unity and it booted to gnome.
>>
>> Is there a way to try to boot to Unity again without reinstalling Natty?
>>
>> Thanks,  Jim
>
> Jim,
>
> You can fiddle with the VM hardware configuration (almost) at will,
> providing the guest (and not "client", sorry for the typo) is off.
>
> As for your previous thread, forgot to tell you that you should not
> configure any USB mouse as a USB device, the guest system recognizes
> it at startup.

I didn't it was working so I left it alone.

> The message "didn't meet the hardware requirements for Unity" is
> standard, even on a real station but once a compatible video driver is
> loaded the system auto switches to Unity.
>
> I tried to run Natty Alpha on VBox but couldn't set the hardware
> parameters to support Unity. I guess there's a way to do it and if you
> check previous threads in this very list I'm sure this subject has
> already been addressed. For my part I ended up setting  up another
> root and home partition in the physical disk and installed Natty there
> ( a "couple" of three or four times already). It's a piece of cake and
> very quick, especially if you run the installer from a pen drive. For
> my taste, Unity (without a touch screen) still sucks, but then I'm
> just an old fart...
>
> L.
>

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.

Thanks for you input.

Regards,  Jim