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
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
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