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era (era) wrote : Booting a virtualbox instance redraws the window many times

Binary package hint: virtualbox-ose

While booting a client image, Virtualbox appears to basically destroy its main window and draw a new one something like half a dozen times. This is annoying a disruptive when you are attempting to get some other work done while booting an image.

I frequently click "start" and switch to a different workspace in order to do some other work while the image starts, but because of this behavior, it will not stay on the workspace where I started it, either.

vnix$ apt-cache policy virtualbox-ose
virtualbox-ose:
  Installed: 2.0.4-dfsg-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.0.4-dfsg-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.0.4-dfsg-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://fi.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

vnix$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10