Ubuntu 10.10 Guest in VirtualBox 3.2.10

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Re: Ubuntu 10.10 Guest in VirtualBox 3.2.10

Post by Sasquatch »

You could try and remove compiz-gnome and get compiz-fusion instead. On my Xubuntu VM, there are no problems with it. You can also just leave compiz-gnome alone and run compiz from the terminal (or run application dialogue), which should not use the Gnome desktop effects but it's own system.
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Re: Ubuntu 10.10 Guest in VirtualBox 3.2.10

Post by Perryg »

Also look in the /var/log/xorg.0.log and see if the drm section failed and vboxvideo is running without it.
Or post the log here (as an attachment)
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Re: Ubuntu 10.10 Guest in VirtualBox 3.2.10

Post by W3bo »

Perryg wrote:Also look in the /var/log/xorg.0.log and see if the drm section failed and vboxvideo is running without it.
Or post the log here (as an attachment)
I've attached my Xorg.0.log file.

Also, I've got a problem: I can't get Shared Folders to work.

In VirtualBox I created a shared folder 'foobar' to my Windows profile directory, I then tried to mount it:

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david@vaioubu:~$ sudo mount -t vboxsf foobar ~/host
[sudo] password for david: 
/sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: No such file or directory

david@vaioubu:~$ sudo modprobe vboxvfs
FATAL: Module vboxvfs not found.

david@vaioubu:~$ sudo mount.vboxsf foobar /media/shared
mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: No such file or directory
Any ideas?
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Re: Ubuntu 10.10 Guest in VirtualBox 3.2.10

Post by Perryg »

Also, I've got a problem: I can't get Shared Folders to work.
In VirtualBox I created a shared folder 'foobar' to my Windows profile directory, I then tried to mount it:
Try mounting a folder that is not in a protected environment. Like C:\share

The log shows that the effects modules are loaded and running. At this point I don't know what to tell you. I have 10.10 working with all of this.
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Re: Ubuntu 10.10 Guest in VirtualBox 3.2.10

Post by W3bo »

I've been doing a bit of development in Eclipse, and the experience was very slow; there's like a 2-3 second lag between me pressing a button and the IDE then doing something.

I then noticed that the Ubuntu file manager reacted in a similar way, but not as bad; it's just really slow and laggy in response to mouse input.

I'm running it in Full-screen mode with VBox additions, Desktop Effects are disabled and I haven't made any changes to my X configuration.

Is this kind of performance to be expected, or is there something I'm overlooking?
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Re: Ubuntu 10.10 Guest in VirtualBox 3.2.10

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When you're working in windowed mode, do you get the same behaviour?
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Re: Ubuntu 10.10 Guest in VirtualBox 3.2.10

Post by W3bo »

Sasquatch wrote:When you're working in windowed mode, do you get the same behaviour?
Yes, in fact it's seemingly worse in Windowed mode rather than fullscreen.
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Re: Ubuntu 10.10 Guest in VirtualBox 3.2.10

Post by cyber01 »

Host Windows Vista, Guest Ubuntu 10.10 Server , Virtual Box 3.2.10.
How to configure the network so that both had a connection and through the NAT and the local Host-Guest? Make 2 network adapters? How to configure them in the Ubuntu Server 10.10
Sorry for my bad English
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Re: Ubuntu 10.10 Guest in VirtualBox 3.2.10

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cyber01 wrote:Host Windows Vista, Guest Ubuntu 10.10 Server , Virtual Box 3.2.10.
How to configure the network so that both had a connection and through the NAT and the local Host-Guest? Make 2 network adapters? How to configure them in the Ubuntu Server 10.10
Sorry for my bad English
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Re: Ubuntu 10.10 Guest in VirtualBox 3.2.10

Post by iamalittlepepper »

It means your VirtualBox Guest Additions has not been compiled properly.

You are missing dkms build-essential linux-headers-generic

I have posted some diagnostic steps here:

http://www.blog.10deam.com/2010/11/29/u ... rs-issues/

I have also submitted a patch so that the maintainers can add to the run script.

http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/7774#comment:1

david@vaioubu:~$ sudo mount -t vboxsf foobar ~/host
[sudo] password for david:
/sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: No such file or directory

david@vaioubu:~$ sudo modprobe vboxvfs
FATAL: Module vboxvfs not found.

david@vaioubu:~$ sudo mount.vboxsf foobar /media/shared
mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: No such file or directory
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