Running Ubuntu in a VM, I've been unable to update to 13.04 due to them dropping...

fein · on July 7, 2013

I install 13.04 server, lay xorg over it, then install fluxbox.

With chrome running about 40 tabs, pgadmin open, and the WM up I'm using about 2gb ram.

Chrome closes and I drop to about 300M. This is a single core althon 64, 3gb ddr1 ram, 70gb ATA HD, AGP Radeon 9600 that I built around 8 years ago.

mmgutz · on July 8, 2013

If you're not too attached to Unity, try Lubuntu or Xubuntu. Both work rather well in a VirtualBox. The last Ubuntu that worked lightning fast in a VM was 11.04.

I moved on to Crunchbang. It's noticeably faster than even Lubuntu in a VM. I don't think even the older Ubuntu's were this fast. I dedicate 32M of video to Crunchbang and have had no problems.

e12e · on July 7, 2013

Any particular reason you need to run the X display on the vm, rather than forward it?

Last I checked Xming worked reasonably well from windows (with putty doing X11 forwarding) - and OS X still has an X server?

(Now if you're doing GUI-testing across systems, I guess running "everything" in the VM makes more sense...).

fdr_cs · on July 7, 2013

why dont you install another WM? I do use a ubuntu vm for coding at work, bit I use i3 instead of unity.