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Compiz Fusion in Ubuntu Inside a Virtual Machine

4 Responses (Add) | Tuesday, May 5th, 2009 at 10:58pm


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Do you Ubuntu? If not, what’s your excuse? You don’t have to run it as your primary operating system, but all the cool kids are using it! Linux is sorta like ice cream – there are a ton of different flavors! It doesn’t even matter which distro you choose… go with what tastes right to you.

Ubuntu is certainly maturing over time. The latest release has mixed reviews, but are mostly positive. Each generation is more stable, and easier to use. I’ve talked about Linux in the past, especially when it comes to things you can only get inside of Linux… such as Compiz Fusion.

Since Ubuntu is open-source, you may want to give back to that community someday. Who knows? You could be the coder who comes up with the next great advance! But I know that most of you are regular users like I am, and that’s ok!

Now, if you want to run Ubuntu on your desktop, you might want to use virtual machine software. Can you guess which one I’m using? There’s a lot of software out there that can allow you to run an operating system inside of a piece of software. Everyone knows what I’m running now, right? If you were going to guess Parallels or VMWare, you would be incorrect… even though I have coupons for both of them.

What I’m using is VirtualBox from Sun. The same people that brought you Java have now brought you open-source virtualization technology for your desktop. So I’m running an open-source operating system inside of an open-source virtual machine!

Sun has enabled 3D acceleration inside of VirtualBox! So Compiz Fusion is even MORE amazing. It’s insanely smooth – and amazingly cool! I’ve never seen Compiz Fusion running inside a virtual machine before. Not only does it run inside of VirtualBox… it runs very well!

It’s fun to run an operating system like this. Give it a shot… it doesn’t cost you a thing!

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General Mills

May 6th, 2009
at 6:08am

Wow! That is sooo cool! Looks like there is less reason to run ubuntu on native hardware now since compiz fusion run in a VM. Wonder whats next in VM technology.

Dust

May 10th, 2009
at 6:01am

i tried yesterday, one word:”awesome”
i didnt even expect to be able to run compiz fusion native on my hardware, i have a macbook with x3100…
you know what? it run , and run “out of box”
now i want just do some benchmark for different version of linux..maybe gOS will be the next.

regards

superriku11

October 19th, 2009
at 2:31pm

Can someone please help me with enabling compiz-fusion on a MacBook 4,1 with a Intel GMA X3100 Integrated graphics card using Ubuntu 9.10 Beta and VirtualBox 3.0.8. I have installed Guest Additions, enabled 3D Acceleration, upped the Video Memory to 64 MB but it still says that Desktop effects could not be enabled.

Moniker

November 5th, 2009
at 8:17am

After reading this I decided to give it a shot as a replacement to a dual boot configuration. To save others a whole lot of disappointment and effort there is a bug in Virtualbox 3.0 and above with desktop effects in Ubuntu (and it seems many other distros). Seems 2.x works fine.

Open ticket at Virtualbox:
http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/4653

i want my day back :)

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