How to fix Oracle VirtualBox Ubuntu 11.04 Unity Hardware Requirement Issue

Oracle VirtualBox VM boot Screen

Unity is the new desktop package which is included in Ubuntu 11.04. How ever this makes small problem to VirtualBox testers for Ubuntu. It gives small error contains hardware is not support and Unity is kept disabled.

Unity Hardware Required Error

To enable Unity back, a very small setting change has to be done. That is increasing Video Memory to about 64MB where the default value for Ubuntu virtual machine is 12MB. Also enable the 3D accelaration.

Display Setting for Ubuntu 11.04

Then Unity works smoothly.

Ubuntu 11.04 with Unity in VirtualBox

How ever my favorite feature in Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) is, it allows install Adobe flash player, Java run time and Gstreamer pluggins automatically by putting a small tick mark in installation process.

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