I got so fed up that I put crunch bang on here instead, and now I can run my vm's with both virtual box and vmware. On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 1:06 PM, Kevin Fries wrote: > I ditched the buntus also about 2 years ago. Had enough, and Unity just > sucks. Not loving what Gnome has been doing lately to Gnome Shell either. > So my latest is Arch, with KDE5 Plasma... KDE started to annoy me, but the > activities desktops and yaquake are really starting to make me so much more > productive. > > But, back to the VMs... > > My company issued me a Windows7 desktop, and in a moment of insanity... > gave me admin rights. I used to run Arch in a VM to do development work > in, then ssh'd to the servers. I discovered MobaXTerm, and it made the > entire experience tolerable. > > Eventually, they issued me a Windows7 VM, and the Windows on my desktop > just became redundant. So I pushed it to the side and installed Arch as > the primary booting OS. For virtualizing Linux processes (i.e. to try out > something without polluting my day to day machine) I use Docker > Containers. To run Windows processes, I have dedicated one of my four > desktops, on my default activity to Windows. It runs that VM instance IT > set up for me, full screen using rdesktop and SeamlessRDP. PERFECT! Now > my regular desktop, and VM, are seamlessly integrated. > > The most fun was when our desktop admin asked me one day to pull something > up on my desktop... I knew that meant in Windows, which is on desktop 1, > and I was on Desktop 4. CTRL->ALT->LEFT->UP and snap, I had the desktop > up... the screens flipped so quickly our a desktop admin almost got dizzy. > I think he is now afraid of my desktop... ha ha ha ha > > Good Luck, but to the OP, I would ditch Ubuntu until they get their s > together. > > Kevin > On May 14, 2015 1:33 PM, "Nathan England" wrote: > >> >> Your experience generally sums up every attempt I've made at making >> things work with any of the *buntu versions. I have spent enough time to >> get really frustrated with it and eventually go to something else. >> >> For a short time I was concerned because Fedora was too unstable with >> systemd, ubuntu just sucks for everything beyond running from a live disc >> (and even that half the time), and openSuSE while awesome would suddenly >> crap out after a few reboots. Never really figured that one out and was >> really disappointed. >> >> Finally with Fedora 21 things are stable again. F20 got better later in >> its life. >> >> >> >> >> On 2015-05-13 17:31, Michael Butash wrote: >> >>> Thanks for the comments from Stephen and James. >>> >>> This has unfortunately been a very frustrating experience, having >>> tried VirtualBox, KVM, and now even VMware Workstation, just try to >>> get something working, and each is fubar for some reason under ubuntu. >>> >>> Virtualbox always works well, but for some reason won't import the >>> disk (some kind of uuid issue reading the disk image). >>> KVM packages just seem broken under ubuntu, as does apparmor (as usual). >>> VMware Workstation/Player 11 does nothing but give me "permission >>> denied" when trying to make a vm as a user, then as root tells me >>> there is no space left with 40gb in the volume. >>> >>> I haven't seen this many f'd up package or app installs under ubuntu >>> in a while, though I expect it of VMware - they can't make linux >>> clients to save their life. KVM I was surprised to see it's as much a >>> basketcase under ubuntu as it was. Seems if people use it, they do so >>> with the rh variants, for a reason. >>> >>> All I wanted was a stupid F5 load-balancer virtual appliance to run to >>> lab, instead 3 days wasted. Ugh. >>> >>> Thanks again all. >>> >>> -mb >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- *Amy Nielsen*