Ubuntu VM / Win32

[pschramm]

Wondering if anyone has tried Boxee / running from within a Ubuntu VMWare image within a Windows box?

thanks-

patrick

[Thom 98]

Probably not gonna work due to the missing 3D-acceleration. Boxee needs a fair amount of graphics power and a VM won't be able to handle it, I think. However you might try it. After all, it only takes a few minutes to set up a VM and install a copy of Ubuntu.

[agentlame]

yeah... i'm sure it would crash and burn... but if you do try, please post back your results

[StevenR]

yeah... i'm sure it would crash and burn... but if you do try, please post back your results

I tried it with a Ubuntu 7.10 VMWare image, and indeed it did crash and burn. A corrupted version of the Boxee logo appeared briefly and then Ubuntu restarted.

[Jaric]

I've actually got it working right now with a VMWare 6.5 Ubuntu 8.10 image. It launches and runs but it's laggy as hell. I had to switch to using the arrow keys because the mouse was unreliable and playing video is pretty much impossibly. I'm running Vista Ultimate on my PC currently,

Figured I'd give this a try before wiping one of my old PCs and installing Ubuntu and Boxee on there.

[mavgink]

you could try to install ubuntu inside windows as an application using wubi..

If it fails... remove it using add/remove programs in your control panel.

[agentlame]

you could try to install ubuntu inside windows as an application using wubi..

If it fails... remove it using add/remove programs in your control panel.

+1

linux really isn't as scary as it once was. there are a few no-risk options out there, and wubi is a great one.

[gmerin]

Host OS: Vista Ultimate
VMWare 6.5
ubuntu 8.04 i386 (x64 was just too much trouble to rebuild and reorganize all the libraries)

-poof

./run-boxee-desktop
27/11/08 19:39:38#DEBUG#bxbgprocess.cpp:142(Start)#bg process initialized. 1 worker threads created.
27/11/08 19:39:38#DEBUG#bxcurl.cpp:63(Initialize)#curl initialized. version <7.18.0>

Running Boxee test...
Cannot get root display. Is X11 running and is your DISPLAY variable set?
Boxee: asked to stop
Boxee: already stopped
BXBGProcess, Resolver Audio Processor, asked to stop, this = 0x903f660
BXBGProcess, Resolver Video Processor, asked to stop, this = 0x903f5f4
BXBGProcess, , asked to stop, this = 0x903f11c
BXBGProcess, Application Messenger, asked to stop, this = 0x8faab0c
BXBGProcess, Application Messenger, asked to stop, this = 0x8faab0c

=======================| DirectFB 1.0.1 |=======================
(c) 2001-2007 The DirectFB Organization (directfb.org)
(c) 2000-2004 Convergence (integrated media) GmbH
------------------------------------------------------------

(*) DirectFB/Core: Single Application Core. (2008-04-08 15:15)
(!) Direct/Util: opening '/dev/fb0' and '/dev/fb/0' failed
--> No such file or directory
(!) DirectFB/FBDev: Error opening framebuffer device!
(!) DirectFB/FBDev: Use 'fbdev' option or set FRAMEBUFFER environment variable.
(!) DirectFB/Core: Could not initialize 'system' core!
--> Initialization error!
SDL init error: %

[agentlame]

Host OS: Vista Ultimate
VMWare 6.5
ubuntu 8.04 i386 (x64 was just too much trouble to rebuild and reorganize all the libraries)

-poof

sounds about right... the graphics support boxee needs just isn't there, in a vm. :(

[levelup2]

Thanks for all your post

[kgilchrist]

Yeah, I just fired it up within an Ubuntu VM.
Mouse movement staggers a lot !

Running on a 6600 quad-core Vista Premium host in VM Workstation 6.5, I gave 1 GB ram and 2 cores to the VM.


Direct 3D acceleration in vmware only works for an Windows XP guest OS so SOL on this one.
Might try and dual-boot an older machine but couldn't bothered at the moment.