VirtualMachine Friendliness

[Axarva]

Describe the bug
The configuration does not seem to work at all in a vm environment.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
Install the configs on a linux virtual machine.

Expected behavior
The configuration to work properly.

Screenshots
None.

Desktop:

• OS: Any [Bug confirmed for ArchLinux, suspected on other distributions]

Additional context
None.

[stefanasandei]

I installed this on an Arch vm but everything is very laggy, I can't even type. I'm using vmware. My virtual machine specs are 4 cores with 16gb of ram.

[Axarva]

I wish I could fiddle around with virtualmachines currently, but other personal issues demand my attention at the moment. If anyone could look into this for now, it'd be of great help.

[bhugoo]

I also having troubles using a vm. Same situation as @NikolaTesla13, I can open the terminal (takes about forever though) but can't type anything. How can I navigate around and edit files when it logs in directly when I enter username and password?

[iSparsh]

can you try pressing ctrl + alt + f4? it opens a tty screen. Maybe fiddle around from there?

[bhugoo]

Yea it does, I gotta log in again though and it just opens the desktop again, this time totally empty. However I guess this is me being new to linux and not anything related to this project.

[iSparsh]

its gonna be a little difficult, but try if you can open your .xinitrc file. if you can just paste the contents over on pastebin and comment again here..
General points:-
remove these lines from .xinitrc if they exist

if [ -z "${DISPLAY}" ] && [ "${XDG_VTNR}" -eq 1 ]; then
  exec startx
fi

if you don't you may wanna check your xsession or xprofile files.

[Axarva]

If you're using startx, could you also make sure that the only contents in your ~/.xinitrc is /usr/bin/xmonad ?

[Kellegram]

I have some theories, will investigate a few things first tho before making any claims, will be back on that.

[Kellegram]

Edit: So I did more investigation and it seems like the issues with performance and freezes have a lot of different reasons. I have issues with VMs on my motherboard so I do not know of the actual performance, I would love if people could test this optimised config on theirs: #47

VirtualBox is really bad, especially its 3D acceleration, without which blur simply does not perform well, many things in picom don't. Picom needs good drivers and acceleration, so in general I would not expect this config to ever run well in a VM, perhaps with a different compositor?

[Nikhil-John]

@Axarva I have the same problem. After asking for the paru installation where I give yes, it shows failed at build(), aborting and then stops completely. I'm running Arch on Virtual Box.
Is this a problem with Virtual Box?
Will appreciate any fixes..
Thanks

[Kellegram]

@Axarva I have the same problem. After asking for the paru installation where I give yes, it shows failed at build(), aborting and then stops completely. I'm running Arch on Virtual Box.
Is this a problem with Virtual Box?
Will appreciate any fixes..
Thanks

Are you able to show more of the error? This is too vague. I installed this setup on VirtualBox multiple times and it doesn't fail to build, however in general VirtualBox is garbage, especially the 3D Acceleration is non-existent so expect picom to cause lags, you need to use the picom.conf in VM folder that I made for it to be in any way usable.