Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Running Elementary in a VirtualBox VM [tutorial]

2013-06-23 Thread Sergey Shnatsel Davidoff
Unfortunately VirtualBox is not a great choice because of its really, really poor GPU passthrough drivers that can cause all sorts of random issues, including crashes: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=OTk5Mw Running Luna in virtual machines is not a great idea in general because

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Running Elementary in a VirtualBox VM [tutorial]

2013-06-23 Thread Craig Weber
I'm not claiming running it in a VM is ideal; however, it's often necessary (a lot of people want to try an OS before installing it on hardware; others don't want to commit to beta software). In short, hardware installation is simply out of the question for a lot of people. If you'd like to