On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 01:58:34 +0000 (UTC) Jim Henderson <hendersj@gmail.com> wrote:
I like GNOME3. It has some problems (one that bugs me a lot is when shell crashes and I can't recover my running apps - having that happen with VirtualBox running is NOT a good time), but on balance, I like it because it *feels* minimalistic.
I realize this is a bit of a tangent, but I'd like to learn more about the GNOME 3 "shell" crashes you're experiencing (I'm on oS 11.4 GNOME 2 atm.) I mean, what exactly is it taking out? How do you recover? Related: Do you think you would be similarly affected if your VMs were starting and stopping gracefully, in the background, as services? I'm concluding from what you've written here that you're managing your VMs from your desktop using the VirtualBox desktop GUI. I really wanted the VMs to start and stop independently of my desktop and for this to happen transparently in the background. To my joy, I discovered openSUSE has this functionality built-in. I now have this in my System Services (Run Level Editor): vboxadd 2,3,5 VirtualBox Linux Additions Kernel modules vboxdrv 2,3,5 VirtualBox Linux Kernel Module vboxes 3,5 Autostart Virtual Box(sic) VMs regards, Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org