Comments on: Compiz Fusion in Ubuntu Inside a Virtual Machine

By: Moniker

Moniker — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:17:16 +0000

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 :)

By: superriku11

superriku11 — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:31:50 +0000

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.

By: Dust

Dust — Sun, 10 May 2009 14:01:30 +0000

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

By: General Mills

General Mills — Wed, 06 May 2009 14:08:21 +0000

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.