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by RegEx 4895 days ago
I don't see any advantage to running the install native. I've actually had more issues in native installs than through VMs.

As a side note, if anyone is interested in running an Ubuntu desktop VM, I highly recommend Lubuntu. It's extremely lightweight and fast, it's perfect for VMs.
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phaus 4895 days ago
How do you configure your VM once you install it? I seem to have a lot of performance issues unless I get a pre-configured VMWare image. The only image I've ever gotten to run as fast as a native install is the Official Backtrack VMware .iso.

I've installed several distributions, including Lubuntu, along with the VMware tools, but I always get really poor performance when I try to set up my own VMs.

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RegEx 4895 days ago
2 processor cores and 2G of memory is all mine needs to perform well. Perhaps my level of "fast enough" is much slower than yours, but my VM doesn't feel any slower than the host.
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phaus 4895 days ago
I have a 2nd gen i7 and 16gb on the host. I think I tried everything up to 8 cores and 4 gb, but it still seems like everything is slow.

So you don't do anything special to optimize it?

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RegEx 4895 days ago
No, nothing at all. I have an ivy bridge i5, 8GB 1600, and two old nvidia geforce 8600 under sli. Perhaps the people at /r/techsupport could help. Full screen in my VM feels just like booting into Ubuntu - no lag at all.
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