[ale] Ubuntu 11.04 Under VirtualBox

[Omar Chanouha]

I got it working. If this was my personal machine, I would have given
it more of a shot, but to be honest I think the new interface is
inefficient for getting work done. I don't like the mac-like placing
of the menu in the top bar. I don't have much screen real estate, so
taking away even a bit of the left side of the screen is too much, and
they take quite a bit. I use gedit/terminal the most, which need width
more than height w/ respect to a 19". Lastly, I found it a bit slow,
but I am sure that will change. If I had more screen I would like it,
but right now classic gnome + do is superior for me.

-O

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 1:17 PM, JD <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:
> I don't have XP anymore, except inside VMs. The tested hostOS is win7
> x64 with 32-bit clientOSes.
>
> The blog link explains how to load unity-2d, nothing special, just
> select it at the login session screen.
>
> On 05/05/2011 10:46 AM, Omar Chanouha wrote:
>> I have to use XP at work, so I run ubuntu in vbox on top of it,
>> everything is 32bit.
>>
>> I turned on 3d acceleration with full vram, but when I log into unity
>> the screen gets garbled, hard to explain but imagine a snowy color tv.
>>
>> I have the latest vbox guest additons and the latest vbox. Did you
>> need to do anything special?
>>
>> Also, how do you switch to 2D Unity?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -O
>>
>> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 6:45 AM, JD <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:
>>> Someone mentioned they were interested in any experience with Natty ...
>>>
>>> So I loaded up Natty last week under VirtualBox. I don't really use any
>>> OS directly on hardware any more - the OS running directly on the
>>> hardware is a hosting platform for virtual machines. I prefer
>>> "virtualized hardware" these days.  That causes issues when GPU
>>> acceleration is demanded by a GUI, like Natty. VirtualBox 3D accel is
>>> fairly new and definitely needs more time to mature, IMHO.
>>>
>>> Anyway, here's a poorly written blog entry about Natty:
>>> http://blog.jdpfu.com/2011/05/04/first-look-at-natty-narwhal-ubuntu-11-04-and-unity
>
> <snip>
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