I tried Ubuntu 12 Windows Installer a few weeks ago. It is really
meant for people Dave is referring to, but there are some serious
caveats.
Pros: It installs like any other Windows program on a Windows machine
and takes care of dual boot automatically. Basically, virtual machine
and Ubuntu 12 are integrated AND the VM uses the real hardware
(graphics, network, etc.), which is generally not the case with VBox
or VMware.
Cons: The maximum size of the VM is 30 GB, but the real problem is
that file I/O is fairly slow and often makes the VM seem to freeze.
The reason, I believe, is that the VM actually uses NTFS via
mount-ntfs, which constantly drains the CPU resources. I haven't
tried it yet, but using /dev/shm for file I/O might solve this problem
if there is enough physical memory available.
Istvan
Quoting case <case.biomaps.rutgers.edu>:
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012, ?? wrote:
>
>> It still doesn't work after adding "-nomtkpp" flag. And I
>> decide to give the installation in Cygwin up.
>
> Does anyone on the list have experience with using VirtualBox on windows
> to install a linux guest? I don't mean some computer wizard who might
> qualify to be in the Walker group, but some ordinary person who just
> follows directions and doesn't want to (or know how to) Google too many
> error messages. I'm wondering if we should make that a primary (or
> alternate) recommended pathway for Windows users. [Not giving up on
> Cygwin, but allowing people an option.]
>
> There used to be a "portable Ubuntu" that installed itself as a regular
> Windows application (basically behaving like a bundled VirtualBox), but that
> seems to have disappeard. Modifying a windows machine to dual-boot Linux
> is pretty straightforward, but I hate dual-boots and would hesitate to
> recommend that to others. (Again, the target audience here is not
> someone who
> runs GenToo and has 6 different versions of gcc installed.)
>
> Suggestions are welcome...I haven't had access to a windows machine to try
> things out on for a coon's age. (I do have a virtual box with Windows XP
> running, so I can test cygwin; but not having to support that option might be
> a plus.)
>
> ...thx...dac
>
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