Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1188 mails)

[Carl Hartung <opensuse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 05:54:32 +0000 (UTC)
Jim Henderson <hendersj@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> The only option I have to recover is to logout and log back in.  When
> it bombs out, I get the "Oh no, somthing happened!" screen and there
> really aren't any other options.
>
> I do wish it was more graceful in that recovery.

Thanks for the more detailed description. I definitely can't afford
to toy with behavior like that outside a test VM or spare box right
now.

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> I've thought about changing from using VirtualBox's GUI to launching
> the VMs in the background and using a remote desktop.  I know that
> can be done (because I played with that a little bit when I started
> built my first VBox VM - an 11.4 VM to run Pan in because it doesn't
> run properly on G3 yet).
>
> I hadn't considered just running the VM automatically, though.  The 
> laptop certainly has the horsepower to do that.

It adds a small but noticeable delay to my shutdowns and time-to-desktop
here (2 GHz dual core) but it's pretty negligible.

> One of the things I use the WinXP VM for is watching Netflix
> streaming, though, and I'm not sure that would work well with an RDP
> solution.  But running Framemaker? Yeah, that'd work. :)

That would be an interesting experiment. Too bad my VMs are 'headless'
by design or I'd try it.

Thanks again for humoring my curiosity ;-)
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