Ubuntu + Compiz + VirtualBox = MAGIC (+howto)

[squarechannel]

i like your video :)

just one question. if you are runing your VM *(seamless mode) on your already runing host OS, wouldn't it consume twice the RAM???? (linux + VM ) am i wrong? ... <--concerned because i only have 2 gb in ram :((

[P44man]

@squarechannel

Yes it will use RAM for the host OS (in this case Ubuntu) and the guest OS (windows). If you run windows apps under wine, you dont have this issue.

What you see in that video was done on a 2GB machine though. Ubuntu needs ~300 Mb, XP a similar amount. Leaves plenty for most apps.

[dismember57]

Hey could someone help me out i know how to burn data dvd and cd's and stuff liek that but i cannot find anythign on the ubuntu forums giving good advice on how to burn video dvd's that will play and a normal home dvd player can soemone help me out

[gfyhdhbyhgj]

I have an descent video card, i can run compiz on it (As HOST os), but at Innotek Vbox, no desktop works, i tried KDe,Gnome,Xfce, and all them crash, the only one who works is Arch+X11

[blahinthe]

Question:

I have two seperate harddrives. One has Windows XP and the other Ubuntu installed. Is there a way to set up virtual box to virtualize windows xp off my other harddrive?

[kevincadogan2310]

youtube likes too ruin all the fun.

[abekaj]

Hi mate! Cool setup! love it! gonna try this out! dose this work with the newest ubuntu 8 ?

[jally2k]

Hey : ) I just installed Ubuntu on my laptop, but can you tell me how to use the virtualBox?

[rbaleksandar]

Go to the web site of VirtualBox. There is a pritty big manual. ;)

[P4manP4man]

Not full screen, seamless mode. Almost the same except in seamless you can see (and use) the ubuntu desktop behind it. its like having a transparent wallpaper in the VM

[ANILKIRAL]

what is virtual box please reply

[P4manP4man]

Ever heard of Google?

[rhoghost]

linux users usualley help others, better than searching google u know....

[P4manP4man]

I might agree if it was something obscure or hard to find. But its the name of the app, you cant miss it on google and the virtual box page explains perfectly what it does, better than I can. And if he has no idea what virtualization is, then I doubt the video would interest him. "What is Linux" might be a valid question in a different context too, but not here.

[Frungi]

ANILKIRAL and rhoghost: Go find and read a guide titled How to Ask Questions the Smart Way. Id link to it, but YouTube is allergic to URLs.

[rhoghost]

its OK. im fine. don't worry about it.

[rinkavideos64]

@P4manP4man Everyone heard of it. Your comment is #LOL and #FTW .

[rinkavideos64]

@P4manP4man Everyone heard of it. #LOL

[rhoghost]

well, machan, its a thing that you can run another operating system, IN while u are using ur normal operating system(same time) just like playing a game while u are listening to music...

[drek507]

@ANILKIRAL hahahaha !! Lol :P

[lancededcena123]

@ANILKIRAL It is a program witch runs oprateing systems on it. you nead a copy of that oprateing system and you can make some changes (eg.change the ram) and you can install the os in their

[rhoghost]

how on earth did u managed to enable desktop effects in virtual box? does it have a supporting virtual graphic card?

[P4manP4man]

I didnt. Look more closely.

[igob8a]

Vegas is garbage but everything else in the video was WIN!

[royanonymous]

it's not windows, should be virtualbox 's seamless mode.

[DrunkencoderPayk]

Hehe, first thing what i thought was "where to get those wallpapers". But there are linked here :D Nice, thanx a lot! Now i gonna check out how you integrated the VM to the desktop ;)

Well done!

[TheJacolyte]

I think I just jizzed my shorts

[mindleak]

How well does it play games in the XP virtual box?

[bbaeyens]

3D games, not at all. There is no 3D acceleration in the VM. VirtualBox emulates some very old Cirrus Logic videocard, so that is what your game will see. Its not a solution for gaming.

[daneeehhhh]

pretty bad, just tryed, even by adding 128mb of video, the thing doesn't works with 3D

[dariusm5]

Right after I discovered Virtual Box, I started to contemplate whether to delete my XP partition completely, and only run Ubuntu. I will wait till my school year starts to see if XP deserves its own partition.

[pseudocaveman]

Whoa. That was awesome.

[jckzz]

This is incredible. How well does Windows run?

[CerebralGump]

Now you can run Windows XP on GNU/Linux, seamless like. The last barrier to GNU/Linux adoption has been removed. The days of saying things like, "unless you have some Windows only program that you absolutely depend on", are over. What we're looking at here is the end of the Windows monopoly. Sure Microsoft is still dominant, for now, but this kind of virtualization on GNU/Linux just screams, "Game Over". The back of the monopoly is broken, and things will never be the same. HUZZAH !

[arinlares]

I thought Wine was supposed to do that...

[CerebralGump]

AWESOME!!

[DesertStarr]

So let me grasp this properly... you have 3 viewports linux.... and 1 windows? Epic!

I hope that is the case... and if it is.... I need you to finish that tutorial like yesterday.... i will wipe off my desktop to this.

[juanfran2783]

Your wallpapers are awesome.

[sittingduhk]

good music choice

[romanoskar]

Hey P4man!

Have you tried the latest SVN of the OpenMovieEditor?

Of course it's nowhere near Vegas, but I think it's the most promising OS Video editor in terms of usability.

If you try it, please comment on it on their Forum. They need some feedback, and currently development is moving fast and they seem to be pretty motivated to turn it into something useful.

[P4manP4man]

Thanks for the tip, installing it now. I've tried a gazillion video editors under Linux, and I have not found something stable and useable enough to just replace Windows Moviemaker (never mind Vegas or Premiere). So I'm not holding my breath for this one either, but let's try anyhow :)

[nohardfeelings09]

I quite literally started to drool....

[c4p0ne]

What about using VMWare, which is supposedly 'superior' (even though it is commercial)?...

[romanoskar]

Depends on what you want to do. I find that virtualbox runs a tad faster and integrates better into the desktop. Plus it's in the repos, so you get all the updates and so forth.

I base that solely on personal experience.

[igob8a]

Nice vid.

I have to let you know that vegas is utter CRAP. Use Premiere, it's much better, especially on multicore CPUs.

No adobe didn't pay me to write this.

VEGAS IS CRAP

[P4manP4man]

To each their own. I disagree. I used Premiere and got so frustrated by its crashes, its inability to export to Divx or xvid, its glaring lack of features that requires 234 extra add ons. So I love Vegas. YMMV. As for multicore, it doesnt work in a VM anyhow. Virtualbox only virtualizes one core, so it would make no difference to me anyhow. Vegas seems a lot faster regardless.

[jingrong68]

I totally agree with you. Vegas is by far a more responsive and capable video editor. Only thing I could wish for is a storyboard editor.

[4a4ron]

Is that 3 ubuntu desktops and one windows?

[joe64716]

salute you sir.

[jefuchs2]

Very cool. Can you tell us your PC specs. CPU, RAM, etc.?

[P4manP4man]

Sure, but its not too meaningful. I used a Core2 Duo 2 GHz, 1.5GB Ram, Geforce 7900GS. Thing is, the really "hard" part for the machine was recording the 1440x900 session as movie in real time.

It was still smooth as butter though, so you really dont need anything high end for just running this. Only enough RAM for the windows VM I suppose.

OTOH, the FPS seems to have changed, the movie is played back faster than I recorded it. Photoshop starts up quickly in my VM, but not THAT quickly

[CChristiansenC]

How did you get the windows menubar at the bottom while still keeping the ubuntu one on top? And how did you switch between the programs at 1:17? Be a great help if you could tell me. Great video by the way.

[P4manP4man]

For the windows taskbar thing, check the link in the description of the video, it has a complete how-to.

the task switcher I used is one of the default Compiz Fusion plugins, called "shift switcher" (in "windows management). Default key combination is super + tab if it is enabled. Or just remap it to alt+tab.

[JarvidO]

WUT ABOOT TEH WINE?

Its teh bettr.

[P4manP4man]

Wine is great for many apps, even for some 3D games, but it doesn't work for lots of others. Sony Vegas and Adobe Photoshop dont work with it, or at least not well. So sometimes its just better to have a virtual windows machine, but certainly nothing stops you from using one or the other, or both. Linux is all about choice after all :)

[neohunter8]

Thats amazing. Very nice!