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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