relopvelo.blogg.se - Vm player for ubuntu

So the following is what I learned – I’ve split this into two posts – the second describes my trials and tribulations trying to convert an existing virtualbox guest to VMWare format.

must be fairly simple to setup & configureģD Graphics acceleration is the killer feature here for me – without having to use a full bare metal solution, VMWare Player seemed to me to be the only viable solution (at least at the moment).

easy to move my mouse cursor from Guest to Host without having to use key combinations to release the cursor.

ability to share folders with my host easily – I do my developing in Guests but I share data files stored on my Host.

3D Graphics acceleration – I dont want my guest to behave like a slug.

So what other virtualisation software could I use on my Ubuntu 14.04 host? My basic requirements were straightforward: Every new version it seems brings new problems. I’ve had numerous X-windows crashes & failures to suspend to resume.

I had been an avid VirtualBox user but I’ve become increasingly disenchanted with VirtualBox unstable nature. Over the recent weeks I’ve been using VMWare Player to play, experiment and develop in various operating systems & various versions of Ubuntu.