Re: [OT] Ubuntu 12.10 guest in VirtualBox completely broken

2012-11-10 Thread Alix Pexton
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 is

Re: [OT] Ubuntu 12.10 guest in VirtualBox completely broken

2012-11-10 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2012-11-10 12:30, Alix Pexton wrote: 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 wor

Re: [OT] Ubuntu 12.10 guest in VirtualBox completely broken

2012-11-10 Thread Ellery Newcomer
On 11/10/2012 04:11 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2012-11-10 12:30, Alix Pexton wrote: 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

Re: [OT] Ubuntu 12.10 guest in VirtualBox completely broken

2012-11-10 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2012-11-10 17:14, Ellery Newcomer wrote: Ubuntu 12.10/gnome classic works well enough; just turn off compiz. I tried mint and ran into trouble while compiling llvm. make gobbled memory for a while, and then the desktop restarted itself (I guess?). All my windows: gone. I don't know if I can

Re: [OT] Ubuntu 12.10 guest in VirtualBox completely broken

2012-11-10 Thread David Nadlinger
On Saturday, 10 November 2012 at 11:30:31 UTC, Alix Pexton wrote: 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 distr

Re: [OT] Ubuntu 12.10 guest in VirtualBox completely broken

2012-11-10 Thread Iain Buclaw
On 10 November 2012 11:30, Alix Pexton 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 kno

Re: [OT] Ubuntu 12.10 guest in VirtualBox completely broken

2012-11-11 Thread Alix Pexton
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 j

Re: [OT] Ubuntu 12.10 guest in VirtualBox completely broken

2012-11-11 Thread Alix Pexton
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

Re: [OT] Ubuntu 12.10 guest in VirtualBox completely broken

2012-11-11 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2012-11-10 17:14, Ellery Newcomer wrote: Ubuntu 12.10/gnome classic works well enough; just turn off compiz. I tried mint and ran into trouble while compiling llvm. make gobbled memory for a while, and then the desktop restarted itself (I guess?). All my windows: gone. I manage to turn of c

Re: [OT] Ubuntu 12.10 guest in VirtualBox completely broken

2012-11-11 Thread Iain Buclaw
On 11 November 2012 10:43, Alix Pexton wrote: > >> >> 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 a

Re: [OT] Ubuntu 12.10 guest in VirtualBox completely broken

2012-11-11 Thread David Nadlinger
On Sunday, 11 November 2012 at 11:22:52 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote: Your milage may vary depending on what hardware you have. Personally I find it 3-4 times quicker to build (considering it takes about 24+ hours to built gdc on a RasPi device). 6–8 hours to build?! I sure love building LDC on m

Re: [OT] Ubuntu 12.10 guest in VirtualBox completely broken

2012-11-11 Thread Iain Buclaw
On 11 November 2012 13:18, David Nadlinger wrote: > On Sunday, 11 November 2012 at 11:22:52 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote: >> >> Your milage may vary depending on what hardware you have. Personally >> I find it 3-4 times quicker to build (considering it takes about 24+ >> hours to built gdc on a RasPi

Re: [OT] Ubuntu 12.10 guest in VirtualBox completely broken

2012-11-11 Thread Alix Pexton
What's been done is a chroot system has been set-up with ARM binaries, instead of i386 or x86_64. qemu-debootstrap installs an executable qemu-arm-static inside this chroot, so when you try to run any ARM binaries, qemu kicks in and acts as an emulator. To compile, simply following the same in

Re: [OT] Ubuntu 12.10 guest in VirtualBox completely broken

2012-11-11 Thread Iain Buclaw
On 11 November 2012 15:13, Alix Pexton wrote: > >> What's been done is a chroot system has been set-up with ARM binaries, >> instead of i386 or x86_64. qemu-debootstrap installs an executable >> qemu-arm-static inside this chroot, so when you try to run any ARM >> binaries, qemu kicks in and acts

Re: [OT] Ubuntu 12.10 guest in VirtualBox completely broken

2012-11-11 Thread Ellery Newcomer
On 11/11/2012 02:50 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2012-11-10 17:14, Ellery Newcomer wrote: Ubuntu 12.10/gnome classic works well enough; just turn off compiz. I tried mint and ran into trouble while compiling llvm. make gobbled memory for a while, and then the desktop restarted itself (I guess?)

Re: [OT] Ubuntu 12.10 guest in VirtualBox completely broken

2012-11-11 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2012-11-12 00:14, Ellery Newcomer wrote: Ouch. Looks like what I should have said is gnome classic (no effects), and I guess compizconfig didn't actually turn anything off. Also, I'm working from a clean install, so that might account for behavior difference. I start to think I have to rein

Re: [OT] Ubuntu 12.10 guest in VirtualBox completely broken

2012-11-12 Thread Alix Pexton
Don't think that would be the case for you. It works just fine, just make sure you are using the correct configure --target flag. On my third time running through the instructions I felt like I was on the right track until I got to the part about running ./setup-gcc.sh $HOME/gcc-4.7-4.7.1

Re: [OT] Ubuntu 12.10 guest in VirtualBox completely broken

2012-11-13 Thread Alix Pexton
On 12/11/2012 20:27, Alix Pexton wrote: ./update-gcc.sh which I have tried to run, but I only got the help message or an error depending on if I add "--setup" or not >< should setup-gcc be present? if not, what is the correct way to call update-gcc? OK, ibuclaw helped me over that hurdle ove

Re: [OT] Ubuntu 12.10 guest in VirtualBox completely broken

2012-11-13 Thread Iain Buclaw
On 13 November 2012 13:09, Alix Pexton wrote: > On 12/11/2012 20:27, Alix Pexton wrote: >> >> ./update-gcc.sh >> >> which I have tried to run, but I only got the help message or an error >> depending on if I add "--setup" or not >< >> >> should setup-gcc be present? if not, what is the correct way

Re: [OT] Ubuntu 12.10 guest in VirtualBox completely broken

2012-11-13 Thread Alix Pexton
On 13/11/2012 15:31, Iain Buclaw wrote: On 13 November 2012 13:09, Alix Pexton wrote: On 12/11/2012 20:27, Alix Pexton wrote: ./update-gcc.sh which I have tried to run, but I only got the help message or an error depending on if I add "--setup" or not >< should setup-gcc be present? if not,

Re: [OT] Ubuntu 12.10 guest in VirtualBox completely broken

2012-11-13 Thread Iain Buclaw
On 13 November 2012 19:09, Alix Pexton wrote: > On 13/11/2012 15:31, Iain Buclaw wrote: >> >> On 13 November 2012 13:09, Alix Pexton >> wrote: >>> >>> On 12/11/2012 20:27, Alix Pexton wrote: ./update-gcc.sh which I have tried to run, but I only got the help message or an

Re: [OT] Ubuntu 12.10 guest in VirtualBox completely broken

2012-11-14 Thread Alix Pexton
On 13/11/2012 21:15, Iain Buclaw wrote: But really, you got network on Raspi? Tarball up the binaries and scp across the wire. You know the RasPi is networked, I gave you login details for it >< Its still building atm, do I do the tarballing after the make-install stage? I'll read the scp

Re: [OT] Ubuntu 12.10 guest in VirtualBox completely broken

2012-11-14 Thread Iain Buclaw
On 14 November 2012 09:46, Alix Pexton wrote: > On 13/11/2012 21:15, Iain Buclaw wrote: > >> But really, you got network on Raspi? Tarball up the binaries and scp >> across the wire. >> >> > > You know the RasPi is networked, I gave you login details for it >< > > Its still building atm, do I do

Re: [OT] Ubuntu 12.10 guest in VirtualBox completely broken

2012-11-14 Thread Alix Pexton
On 14/11/2012 10:49, Iain Buclaw wrote: You know how to cp, you know how to ssh? You should know how to scp. ;) Assume I know nothing, its much safer, and probalbly quicker in the long run ^^ A...