I have a MacBook Pro with a retina display and 8GB of RAM. I want to run graphical apps in an Ubuntu VM under VirtualBox 5. (Actually, the only graphical app I really care about is WebStorm.) So far, I have been able to get xfce4 to work, but apps look ugly (jaggedy text with a greenish cast, for instance), and performance is distinctly worse than native.
Does anyone have a complete example of a Vagrantfile that sets everything up optimally to run graphical apps in an Ubuntu (or other Linux) VM under VirtualBox 5? The number one thing I would like to solve is that I would like to get native resolution to work, and I have heard VirtualBox 5 makes this possible. I have tried manually checking the "Use Unscaled HiDPI Output" option in VirtualBox, but when I do that maximizing the VirtualBox window does not maximize the rendered view inside, which makes this option useless. Also, there seem to be a lot of different things that might need tuning for an optimum experience. Paravirtualization, memory, vram, guest services parameters, fonts, getting rid of the space-wasting Ubuntu taskbar, audio (not a priority for me, but could be important for others...), maybe JVM parameters (and I suspect I should be using HotSpot for the best performance), .... I have an idea how to do some of these things, but not all, and probably some are not helpful and other things again that I have not mentioned would be useful for me or others. -- This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in violation of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing list. GitHub Issues: https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/issues IRC: #vagrant on Freenode --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Vagrant" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vagrant-up/ec5fd1de-56da-422f-9c65-45e1844ddc52%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
