[09:46] <om26er> Hello! Is it possible to run unity8 session in a VM ? I am doing some debugging and need to log into unity8 session to do the testing, I would rather save time if it was possible to run unity8 in VM
[09:46] <om26er> duflu: do you know ?
[10:01] <dednick> om26er: i seem to remember that there's an issue with graphics driver running mir with vmware.
[10:11] <duflu> om26er: Sorry I was on a call....
[10:12] <duflu> om26er: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mir/+bug/1118903/comments/42
[10:12] <ubot5`> Ubuntu bug 1118903 in mir (Ubuntu) "[enhancement] Mir lacks a software rendering backend (and doesn't work in virtual machines)" [High,Triaged]
[10:13] <om26er> duflu: hmm, I wonder if I could run unity in another tty ?
[10:13] <anpok> om26er: kvm with qxl as graphics card mode, and spice for the displaying widget would work..
[10:13] <duflu> I don't know the state of VMware. VMware themselves added support a couple of years ago. I hope it has not bitrotted but don't know
[10:14] <duflu> om26er: It should be possible. We test Mir running different servers on different VTs. Only LightDM etc is restricting that
[10:14] <anpok> om26er: the only restriction here is that the display border guestures do not work well since xenial or wily
[10:14]  * duflu -> EOD
[10:15] <om26er> anpok: I did run unity8 in kvm a while ago but that was unity8-session snap thing, where everything was crashing
[10:15] <greyback> om26er: I had unity8 working in vmware player a few months back
[10:15] <greyback> I don't think I did anything special
[10:16] <anpok> hm i am regularly running it with virt-manager - but yes it will crash on startup if you do not select qxl
[10:16] <anpok> this is a limitation we will lift soon..
[10:16] <anpok> and vbox ought to work then too
[16:47] <mterry> @unity can I get a review for https://code.launchpad.net/~mterry/unity8/snap-root2/+merge/307981 ?
[16:47] <mterry> Relatively simple, and is needed for our u8-in-snap effort
[16:50] <mzanetti> mterry, ok, testing it now
[16:50] <mterry> thx!
[17:09] <greyback_> dednick: hey, I've a bunch of qtubuntu branches up for review, could you spare some time for them at some stage?
[17:09] <dednick> greyback_: howdy. sure can.
[17:09] <greyback_> thanks. No urgency, they're just sitting there
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