VirtualBox + Compiz Fusion + Seamless Mode

[timpster93]

they might be fast but that video is slow as frozen molasses 3-4 Frames per second haha

dont upload anymore slow ass videos please

[iGarthi]

Seamless? More like slideshow.

[oloroko]

fail

[receptor1974]

ЛОШОК

[GeekFiftyFive]

I've ran Google Android in virtual box on both my macbook and an old P4 just fine, thaen I tried it on a Celeron PC with 512 mb of ram (256 allocated to Android) I thought it would be fine, you know Android runs on Phones with similar specs, I was wrong, it took about 3 minutes to do anything (but then I suppose the CPU was only 900mhz so it probably came down to that)

[dellthinker]

The hardware specs on this machine sucks.

[MirkoPa93]

What software you used to make this video? THANKS :)

Mirko

[Xiloforce]

Can you make a lot of things working with your virtual box ????

[sclek2007]

You shouldn't be virtualizing if your computer is that slow.

[maw88ify]

I think 2 gig of RAM may speed it up a bit... it would cost 70 $ bucks ..

[Aquilastudio2]

dude get a better gfx card. I mean linux will run well on it but wouldnt be so shure about vbox with vista or 7.

[autonomic0]

Cool 4/5

[clean60r]

thanks Jimmypictures, actually it's something to do with Windows re-drawing the desktop on the host, i found a fix for this only a week ago.

[clean60r]

notice that Windows start menu is quite sluggish when activated it doesn't disappear on its own, that happens when enabling seemless mode while compiz is enabled. I've been working with this prblm with no success, anyone knows the fix plz let me know.

[WackoJaAckO]

Would have been better with music

[ComputerGeek000]

It would be better with a music track in the background.

[chaOsMastaGuru]

seamless emulation = win

[ZdenekProductions]

Agreed, chaOs

[bIueviper]

How did you make it almost full screen?

[nom9rouge]

My laptop with 512mb of ram can run this very well.

I'm running Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex along with A nLite stripped down version of windows with eXPerience hacks.

I give WinXP 128mb, and it runs fine.

so you dont need a big RAM to run this.

[hackstudent]

you must take extra ram

[Swatrecon]

yes, he takes 3 ram, twice daily

[mjnaik]

@swatrecon

LOL! XD yeah!

[pau1knopp]

nice vid. i was wondering how the heck to control which menu to use. tons of googling and no relief till i saw this video. good stuff.

[groopcd]

DarkMission, i have 2GB of ram, but usually i just allocate 256MB for XP.

[nuclearwinterinhell]

Is 256MB of RAM really enough for XP? Does it lag or anything?

[groopcd]

Ram always depends on the amount of work you are doing. If 256MB isnt enough you can always give more ram to the virtual machine. Very simples :)

[nuclearwinterinhell]

Hmm, though I had problems trying to install Windows using VirtualBox.

The Windows boot CD seems to respond very slowly, and I mean REALLY slowly. Before even setting up partitions, it just jams there. Any chances that it's a RAM problem?

[groopcd]

Try creating a iso of the windows xp cdrom, with dd if=/dev/cdrom of=xp.iso and installing using the iso. if its still slow something is very wrong with your configuration.

[nuclearwinterinhell]

I'll try just that. Thanks for the help! :)

[DemonNaoto]

@nuclearwinterinhell Its going to be slower if you install with the disc, but if you create an image file from the disc, it will be much faster! :D Use a program called IMGBurn. It works really well if you like to create ISO images or burn them!

[Zulkaroth]

@nuclearwinterinhell How fast is your cpu? I installed xp fine on a 2 GHz AMD Athlon 64, but I would guess that under 1 GHz you'd have serious lags. Also check how much ram you're giving it. Good luck!

[brpadington]

I give virtualbox 512 on my machine. i am Running ubuntu Hardy 64-bit with 3gig total memory.

[emoal1]

lol, hardy

[ShadowEater120880]

Yep, fully supported til April 2011 on the desktop. What's wrong with Hardy?

[labishoujo]

@nuclearwinterinhell Try 512 Ram 256 does work but it will play video slow and will crash a lot. When I say crash I mean Windows not VirtualBox.

[jarblewarble]

I tried running Ubuntu on Windows XP using VirtualBox, but it was really slow because my computer's about 5 years old.

[DarkMission91]

very nice!!!! how big is your ram to run big program like vitual box???

[mattj2887]

My Windows Task bar always ends up over the top of the Ubuntu task bar when in Seamless mode, how do you stop this from happening like in your video, so the Windows task bar is above the Linux task bar. Thanks

[katmannsson]

Hey mattj2887 the soloution is always leave a little space on the left or right of every open windows so you can see the desktop (unless you are running with windows host) and just click on the desktop and the linux bar will return, if you are useing windows as host (main) then set the task bar to auto hide, hope this helped

[mattj2887]

If you look at the video at 3:20 the windows taskbar is above the linux one. When I have seamless mode on, the windows taskbar is in front of the linux bar, as in, I cannot see it.

[katmannsson]

just click on the linux desktop

[garyedwardjohnston]

i thought there was a known issue with this????

ive been trying to run in seamless mode with visual effects (compiz) turned on for a while now. all i get are bugs.

any suggestions?

[vahnx1337]

I can't run seamless mode with compiz on either. =( It just glitches out too much.

[P4manP4man]

I works fairly well here. You just have to make sure there is always a (visible) window open in your VM. And you may have to toggle between seamless and windowed mode twice (rctrl +L I think) to bring VB back to where its supposed. I got no complains otherwise. Seach for youtube for:

Ubuntu + Compiz + VirtualBox = MAGIC (+howto)

And you'll find my video + link to a complete howto. Might help.

[PlanSuccessOnline]

i thought there was a known issue with doing this?

i thought vissual effects in ubuntu needed to be turned off for xp to run properly in seamless mode using compix?

any suggestions would be appreciated

[silviomnt]

Why windows in virtualbox is so slow? It should be faster!

[groopcd]

It's not slow, it's the capturing video software that can't grab the entire FPS. Hence the slowness :) Try is yourself, you might be pleasantly surprised.

[silviomnt]

I know, if it wasn't so, it was a strage thing! Virtualbox is better than vmware 'cause virtualbox the kernel is patched

[ItsMeFlippy]

whats the name of the nice style?

[MasterFire84]

Question, why run Windows inside Ubuntu? Seems to me that running both at the same time just takes huge amounts of RAM... And have you tried playing a game in this way?

[groopcd]

The question should be - why not? :D

I almost never use it anyway, just to run some photoshop CS2 filters when/if they don't work with gimp+pspi (runs photoshop plugins through wine inside gimp), or to test some sites for compatibility with IE7. Since 3d support isn't working (YET!!) games are a no go for now.

Anyway, windows is usually safer running inside is little box and letting linux do what is does best, running the show!

[MasterFire84]

I'd like to see that 3D support then :)