Monday, 25 April 2016

Ubuntu 16.04 as Virtualbox Guest on Windows

I've been playing with the many flavours of Ubuntu 16.04 to see which might be suitable for deploying applications over a free to use RDP or X2GO solution. I've tried the following:

  • Ubuntu
  • Kubuntu
  • Xubuntu
  • Lubuntu
  • Ubuntu Gnome
  • Ubuntu Mate
Part of this testing is on Virtualbox as a guest under Windows 10, and I've found the correct selection of extra packages I need to give full display functionality as a guest without errors.
I used the following command:
  • sudo apt install virtualbox-guest-utils virtualbox-guest-dkms dkms linux-headers-generic build-essential
Ubuntu is out as it's display manager doesn't work well with the RDP server, so looks like Lubuntu, Xubuntu, Ubuntu Mate or maybe Ubuntu Gnome fail-back might be usable.

1 comment:

  1. I think this can be refined to:
    sudo apt install virtualbox-guest-utils virtualbox-guest-dkms dkms

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