If performance or 3D capability matters I'd therfore recommend a dual boot installation. I have both of them at hand to decide this from case to case.ĭue to restrictions from a virtualized OS you will never have the performance you have from an installation on bare metal. We can see that it depends much on the use case when a live system or a full install may be better. Some hard disk space needed for the VM image.In case our software has additional dependencies, or we need additional applications for debugging we may not want to load them each time we install the application but rather have an upgraded or customized guest OS for testing purposes. Testing software on a customized guest OS Installation of additional librariers or software are volatile.No acess to features from guest additions (i.e.The guest OS is not upgraded, therefore bugs will not have been fixed.This installation will not be available after a reboot of our VM (but of course it will survive a snapshot). In this case we may just boot a live session where we install our application for testing. We may not want to take the time, and we may not have the hard disk space for a full installation. Occasional testing of softwares in different Ubuntu versions Let me outline two exemplary cases of running Ubuntu in Virtual Box:

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