On Sun, Dec 24, 2017 at 5:06 AM, Rusi Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote: > And this time (for the first time?) I saw that majority of the class were > running Linux (usually but not always Ubuntu) on a VM on a Windows — > typically Windows-10 > > This made those machines markedly sluggish.
I wonder if some of those students are using a strange VM. I use Ubuntu as a guest in a virtual machine professionally at work, on a Windows 10 host laptop. I use the free VirtualBox manager, and the VirtualBox Ubuntu guest plugins. Ubuntu is running as smooth as is expected from the bare metal. I run it in full screen on one monitor, and the rest of the people in the office were impressed when their octave scripts ran faster in the virtual machine than on the Windows host. Make sure that your students 1) Enable hardware virtualization on the computers - this may have to be enabled in BIOS. 2) Use VirtualBox - it's a free download and (most) of it is open source. 3) After installing Ubuntu, make sure they install the Guest Additions, https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VirtualBox/GuestAdditions There may be other options I can't remember now, I don't have everything at hand.
