X11 painfully slow with ubuntu-xenial-16.04-cloudimg

[Keith Roberts]

I have installed the ubuntu-xenial-16.04-cloudimg using vagrant, ready to move from ubuntu-1401-LTS when it reaches EOL in April 2017.

The details are:

Mac OS X 10.9.4 + 8GB RAM

$ vagrant version
Installed Version: 1.7.4
Latest Version: 1.8.5

VirtualBox 5.0.26 r108824

Vagrant Box: ubuntu-xenial-16.04-cloudimg

Desktop:
Package: xfce4
Version: 4.12.2
Priority: optional
Section: universe/x11

I have also enabled the graphical GUI in the Vagrantfile, with:

  # Display the VirtualBox GUI when booting the machine
  # We need this to get an X11 desktop to run Firefox etc.

  config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
    vb.gui = true
    vb.memory = "2048"
  end

My problem is this:

When I tried to enter the username and password to login to the GUI, the gdm3 default desktop manager was painfully slow, so I eventually switched to using wdm, which works fine.

Description: WINGs Display Manager - an xdm replacement with a WindowMaker look
 This is an xdm replacement based on the WINGs widget set. WINGs is the
 NeXT-like widget set used by WindowMaker and some other programs. wdm
 provides a nice and versatile login panel along with xdm functionality.

I can login to the desktop now OK, but the navigating the desktop is extremely slow. I click on the Applications tab, and about 40-60 seconds later I get a drop-down window.

I can ssh into the ubuntu-xenial-16.04-cloudimg image OK, and have also installed Docker there, and building docker images from the command line works fine.

So it just appears to be a problem with using the graphical desktop that is so slow.

I can use xfce desktop fine from the ubuntu-1401-LTS vagrant box.

That is version:

ubuntu-1401-LTS_default_1445876795176_20168

Is there a non-cloud vagrant box I can use for ubuntu-xenial 16.04 please?

Kind Regards,

Keith

[Dan Watkins (oddbloke)]

We don't intend to provide a desktop Vagrant box, so I've moved this bug to Ubuntu as it's a more general desktop/VM issue.

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) reached end-of-standard-support on April 29, 2021.
Further to comment #1 closing as 'Invalid' as no comments for almost eight years.