ubuntu vbox guest on mac

[Paul Mooring]

There's some decent advice in this thread, but I switched to a MacBook Pro
from Linux a little over a year ago and my experience has been now that
most desktop environments are terribŠ, I mean want 3d acceleration
virtualizing a desktop you want to use heavily is just a bad experience.

I set up a triple boot using rEFIt of OS X, Fedora and Win7 which worked
pretty well.  The decision I ended up making was to just use 1 desktop and
all the xbox and vmware fusion vms I use are cli/ssh only.
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Paul Mooring
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On 3/11/13 8:16 PM, "Michael Butash" <michael at butash.net> wrote:

>I'd second that - get something like gkrellm under mac that can show you
>composite graph stats of cpu, memory, disk and see what is pegging when
>you run.  Something will generally hit a limit if it's lagging.  Lack of
>memory will cause it to dip to swap, and then just spills into your disk
>io performance to kill vm's, and your host performance.
>
>I would presume apple doesn't use cheap/slow ssd's, but but might be
>worth looking up the model to see what kind of performance it's rated
>for.  I noticed a big diff going from sata2 to sata3 with upwards of
>500MB/s both read/write.
>
>Starting a job this week using a stupid windoze box again by corporate
>mandate even with ssd has reminded me what lag is like - could just be
>mac, or their driver layer @ the (bad) os as Lisa said.
>
>-mb
>
>
>On 03/11/2013 08:00 PM, Lisa Kachold wrote:
>> Add memory - also, get some read/write statistics on the SD card.  I
>> have noticed great lags in SD - not sure if this is due to driver(s)
>> youth or ?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 6:48 PM, Josh Coffman <joshcoffman at gmail.com
>> <mailto:joshcoffman at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi,
>>
>>        I want to move all my non-windows dev to an ubuntu (or
>>     suggestion) virtual box vm. I'm noticing a sluggish UI both on
>>     ubuntu and Mint with cinnamon when running on my macbook. It's a
>>     retina with ssd and plenty of ram. I thought it might be unity until
>>     I tried Mint. Anyone know trick to speed up a vbox on mac?
>>
>>     Thanks,
>>     Josh
>>
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