Discover Vagrant and watch your happiness factor go through the roof. I don't do VMs any longer without it. Lately been coupling it with Docker to build apps for my Kubernetes cluster... swweeeeeeeet! Kevin On Jul 31, 2015 8:50 PM, "Amy Nielsen" wrote: > 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* > > --------------------------------------------------- > 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 >