I'd highly suggest searching on Github for some of those terms like high dpi as there are many many Vagrant templates and I'm sure somebody has figured out how to make it look good. I don't own a Retina Mac but I would think having the vmtools installed is also important to get a better driver inside the VM.
On Friday, August 28, 2015 at 3:21:08 PM UTC-5, Grant wrote: > > 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/fc003254-6cc8-4a09-8462-81eb99f9ed3c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
