On 10 November 2012 11:30, Alix Pexton <alix.dot.pex...@gmail.dot.com> wrote: > On 10/11/2012 10:14, Jacob Carlborg wrote: >> >> I just wanted you all to know that running Ubuntu 12.10 as a guest in >> VirtualBox is completely broken. I update by guest system from 12.04 to >> 12.10 and it's so slow it's not usable. This is a known issue: >> >> https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/11107 >> >> That issue contains a pre-release of VirtualBox, I tried that on Mac OS >> X and it broken the Ubuntu guest even more. No title bar on the windows >> or any window frame actually. >> > > What a coincidence, I just installed VirtualBox and was looking for advice > on what distro of linux to install... > > All I want to be able to do with my VM is be able to build GDC for my RasPi > (via all the hoops that are necessary to get cross compilation working), not > bothered about any GUI stuff or bells/whistles, suggestions for a good > distro to go with are welcome! > > A...
You don't necessarily need a cross compiler to do the job. Set-up a raspbian chroot instead! There's some rough instructions here. http://superpiadventures.wordpress.com/2012/07/16/development-environment/ You are also able to debug programs through qemu, though there's a hurdle you have to jump through. http://tinkering-is-fun.blogspot.co.uk/2009/12/debugging-non-native-programs-with-qemu.html Regards, Iain. -- Iain Buclaw *(p < e ? p++ : p) = (c & 0x0f) + '0';
