Duh! and Huh?

[edwardedwards08]

I've been playing with Ubuntu via VB. I thought it was pretty cool, but wondered why it was so sluggish. DUH! I was running Ubuntu from the .ISO image, live, instead of installing Ubuntu.

So I installed it, and -- of course -- Ubuntu smoked. OpenOffice took seconds to open, not minutes. But when I eventually shutdown and later reopened, I was a live user again. HUH?

I was about to reinstall yet again, but then I stopped. Is that install somewhere already? And should I tell VB to use it instead of the .ISO

.MISOconfused.

[m@riposa]

In Settings->General->Advanced->Boot Order "Hard Disk" should be checked and the first entry.
And in Hard Disks->Primary Master the disk image you created when you used the Wizard to configure your machine the first time before you started it, should be chosen. It is usuallay located here: ~/Library/VirtualBox/VDI.
Using these options the VirtualMachine will boot this hard disk image and not the .iso file.

[edwardedwards08]

That worked like a charm. THANKS.