Testing Xubuntu 13.04 on bare metal, and installed chromium. Using chromium to type this email. So it was my vbox not running on a virtualization supported system.
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 4:12 AM, Istimsak Abdulbasir <[email protected]>wrote: > 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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