The out-of-the-box performance of ubuntu on VB is not very good. It needs
some extra drivers without which unity is unbearably slow. With them, a
virtualized ubuntu desktop performs very decently even as primary working
platform.
The drivers (virtualbox-guest-dkms, virtualbox-guest-x11,
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 02:55:11PM +0530, staticd wrote:
The drivers (virtualbox-guest-dkms, virtualbox-guest-x11,
virtualbox-guest-utils) are in debian and ubuntu repos (universe) and total
to only 1.8MB.
What about dependencies? DKMS packages need quite a bit of supporting
infrastucture
On 20 December 2013 09:25, staticd staticd.growthecomm...@gmail.com wrote:
I posted this a while back but got crickets.
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/232004
I also have suggested the same thing - other distros include pre-built
kernel modules for their live media which means
Thanks jonathan
Having the binary drivers at least for the iso sounds doable (in my limited
understandind) as these drivers are GPL and not PUEL.
But I'll just check out what robie suggested anyway.. I hadn't thought of
the other deps.. will get back with results shortly.
Sachit
On Fri, Dec 20,
Hello,
On 20 December 2013 10:04, Robie Basak robie.ba...@ubuntu.com wrote:
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 02:55:11PM +0530, staticd wrote:
The drivers (virtualbox-guest-dkms, virtualbox-guest-x11,
virtualbox-guest-utils) are in debian and ubuntu repos (universe) and total
to only 1.8MB.
What
Dimitri John Ledkov [2013-12-20 12:11 +]:
Looks like virtualbox-guest-dkms package doesn't declare any
Modaliases, maybe it should be integrated with ubuntu-drivers, if
possible.
Indeed, then it would also automagically appear in the additional
drivers tab in software-properties.
On 20 December 2013 13:05, Martin Pitt martin.p...@ubuntu.com wrote:
Dimitri John Ledkov [2013-12-20 12:11 +]:
Looks like virtualbox-guest-dkms package doesn't declare any
Modaliases, maybe it should be integrated with ubuntu-drivers, if
possible.
Indeed, then it would also automagically
