Re: VirtualBox and test releases

2012-02-24 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Message: 6 Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:25:24 -0500 From: Claude Jones To: For testing and quality assurance of Fedora releases Subject: Re: VirtualBox and test releases Message-ID:<4f480e54.50...@tehogeeservices.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed On 2/24/201

Re: VirtualBox and test releases

2012-02-24 Thread Claude Jones
On 2/24/2012 4:23 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: Although the interface is slow, I haven't had the same multi-minute delays you speak of. Also, I've found that to build guest additions all you need is: $ yum install gcc kernel-headers kernel-devel make dkms > this is pretty useless I hope you figur

Re: VirtualBox and test releases

2012-02-24 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Claude Jones wrote: > ... > Then I followed Andre's suggestion and after a lot of fiddling and having to > install gcc and its dependencies and other stuff, I finally got the GL > module to build successfully; that's where I'm rebooting from now...so, > let's see w

Re: VirtualBox and test releases

2012-02-24 Thread Claude Jones
On 2/24/2012 11:03 AM, Claude Jones wrote: On 2/24/2012 1:34 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: As ajax says, check if you're getting software rendering of GNOME Shell, which is likely to be slow: if so you can force fallback mode from a VT, much faster than trying to get through the control center, wit

Re: VirtualBox and test releases

2012-02-24 Thread Claude Jones
On 2/24/2012 1:34 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: As ajax says, check if you're getting software rendering of GNOME Shell, which is likely to be slow: if so you can force fallback mode from a VT, much faster than trying to get through the control center, with this command: gsettings set org.gnome.des

Re: VirtualBox and test releases

2012-02-23 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 16:00 -0500, Claude Jones wrote: > I'm trying to test Fedora 17 RC4 in a Virtual Box environment. I had > problems doing this with F16 as well. It is up and running, but > tortuously slow. I noticed that it complained when I was installing the > guest additions about the 'e

Re: VirtualBox and test releases

2012-02-23 Thread Claude Jones
On 2/23/2012 5:21 PM, Andre Robatino wrote: Claude Jones tehogeeservices.com> writes: Thanks for your reply. I'm not sure I understand it. Are you saying that I should open a terminal and issue that 'export' command, then run the installation of guest additions again? Yes. If you're building

VirtualBox and test releases

2012-02-23 Thread Andre Robatino
Claude Jones tehogeeservices.com> writes: > Thanks for your reply. I'm not sure I understand it. Are you saying that > I should open a terminal and issue that 'export' command, then run the > installation of guest additions again? Yes. If you're building Guest Additions in F17 or Rawhide and d

Re: VirtualBox and test releases

2012-02-23 Thread Adam Jackson
On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 16:00 -0500, Claude Jones wrote: > I'm trying to test Fedora 17 RC4 in a Virtual Box environment. I had > problems doing this with F16 as well. It is up and running, but > tortuously slow. I noticed that it complained when I was installing the > guest additions about the 'e

Re: VirtualBox and test releases

2012-02-23 Thread Claude Jones
On 2/23/2012 4:12 PM, Andre Robatino wrote: Claude Jones tehogeeservices.com> writes: I'm trying to test Fedora 17 RC4 in a Virtual Box environment. I had problems doing this with F16 as well. It is up and running, but tortuously slow. I noticed that it complained when I was installing the gu

VirtualBox and test releases

2012-02-23 Thread Andre Robatino
Claude Jones tehogeeservices.com> writes: > I'm trying to test Fedora 17 RC4 in a Virtual Box environment. I had > problems doing this with F16 as well. It is up and running, but > tortuously slow. I noticed that it complained when I was installing the > guest additions about the 'experimental

VirtualBox and test releases

2012-02-23 Thread Claude Jones
I'm trying to test Fedora 17 RC4 in a Virtual Box environment. I had problems doing this with F16 as well. It is up and running, but tortuously slow. I noticed that it complained when I was installing the guest additions about the 'experimental x' version. Every aspect of what I do is slow; boo