Thanks for the link. My machine that I use to run vbox does not support hardware virtualization. So I am only able to run 32bit guests with low performance. Least now that I know.
On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Nio Wiklund <[email protected]> wrote: > Maybe this is your problem: > > Vbox works with 32-bit systems without virtualization enabled, but if > you (can) enable it in BIOS and select it in the settings of the virtual > machine, vbox will be faster with 32-bits and will start to work with > 64-bit systems (provided your host system has 64 bits). See this link > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2131037 > > Or maybe vbox is slow, because your host system is not really powerful > enough to run vbox, or because you have so little memory allocated, that > Xubuntu in vbox starts swapping. > > > On 2013-04-20 13:34, Istimsak Abdulbasir wrote: > > Maybe it is my system itself. But I notice when installing packages on > > xubuntu, the installation goes very slow, almost as if it is not > > installing at all. This happens when testing using vbox. If I test on > > bare metal, things work fine. I may have to do a little hardware > > upgrading in the future. > > > > > > > > > > On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 4:26 AM, Nio Wiklund <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > On 2013-04-20 05:38, Istimsak Abdulbasir wrote: > > > Has anybody experienced errors installing apps in a live ubuntu > > session > > > running in virtualbox? > > > > > > Istimsak Abdulbasir > > > > > > > > Specifically about Lubuntu Raring: > > > > I have installed several packages. But recently, I was asked to > install > > > > apport-collect > > > > to report a bug in Lubuntu desktop i386 (in vbox). But it wouldn't > > install properly, so I couldn't use it. > > > > Other packages install well. Synaptic and apt-get have been working > > without issues since I started with beta testing. Also Lubuntu > Software > > Center is working now. I notice no difference between vbox and hard > > metal sessions concerning installing apps. > > > > > >
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