zim2dive
December 22nd, 2008, 03:58 PM
for the past few weeks I have been playing with a dual-boot PC and my 1st install of Ubuntu 8.10, trying to make it my HTPC...
Its been an uphill struggle (needed newer nVidia drivers, and newer alsa drivers to get sound, still tackling the wireless drivers issue) and now have run in to the roadblock of what appears to be dismal Flash performance. I also wanted this machine to serve as a mail/web/ssh host for me so that I could move that structure off my Mac which is currently running squirrelmail and a bunch of cgi scripts I've written.
While anything MS is my OS of last resort, I'm now contemplating running Vista as the host OS and Ubuntu as a guest OS inside Virtualbox.. I'm wondering what the downsides to that would be.. ie. I can do all my HTPC in Vista (ick) (can still use VLC, mplayer, etc) and get usable Flash performance that way (for internet TV/video) (I'm getting maybe 1-2 fps in full-screen Flash, using the latest Adobe x86_64 plugin on a 2.7GHz AMD box with 3G ram.. that's not even close to being acceptable)
I'd just need to be able to expose the ports in to Ubuntu and have it running apache2, cronjobs, etc. I would then not need to run any graphic intensive apps in Ubuntu (I'm not a Myth user, at least not at this time)
The release notes for VB 2.1 make it sound as it the networking is now much simpler than it was before (I have some minimal experience using Parallels to run Windows inside OS X)
Not sure which way to go, only know that my current setup doesn't appear as if it can meet my needs (unless a VDPAU version of Flash magically appears) and looking for alternatives.
thanks for any feedback,
Mike
Its been an uphill struggle (needed newer nVidia drivers, and newer alsa drivers to get sound, still tackling the wireless drivers issue) and now have run in to the roadblock of what appears to be dismal Flash performance. I also wanted this machine to serve as a mail/web/ssh host for me so that I could move that structure off my Mac which is currently running squirrelmail and a bunch of cgi scripts I've written.
While anything MS is my OS of last resort, I'm now contemplating running Vista as the host OS and Ubuntu as a guest OS inside Virtualbox.. I'm wondering what the downsides to that would be.. ie. I can do all my HTPC in Vista (ick) (can still use VLC, mplayer, etc) and get usable Flash performance that way (for internet TV/video) (I'm getting maybe 1-2 fps in full-screen Flash, using the latest Adobe x86_64 plugin on a 2.7GHz AMD box with 3G ram.. that's not even close to being acceptable)
I'd just need to be able to expose the ports in to Ubuntu and have it running apache2, cronjobs, etc. I would then not need to run any graphic intensive apps in Ubuntu (I'm not a Myth user, at least not at this time)
The release notes for VB 2.1 make it sound as it the networking is now much simpler than it was before (I have some minimal experience using Parallels to run Windows inside OS X)
Not sure which way to go, only know that my current setup doesn't appear as if it can meet my needs (unless a VDPAU version of Flash magically appears) and looking for alternatives.
thanks for any feedback,
Mike