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http://askubuntu.com – I've been using VirtualBox for a really, really long time and enjoyed it but now I need to run Unity3D and this seemingly simple task turned out to be too much for humble graphical abilities of VirtualBox. The thing is virtual box allows only up to 128mb of video memory (I've tried various tricks described over Internet to make it work with 256mb but with no luck) which is not enough for even IDE of Unity3D to start (it kind of starts but only kind of). Also with direct3d support enabled virtual box crashes when I try to do something in Unity and without it Unity3D IDE looks completely unus (HowTos)

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For the most part I am getting sick going back and forth to just work on games, funny thing is my game is 2D and partial 3D (for the world, remember FF6? except better rendering) If you have alternatives that would be great otherwise I need to stick to unity.

Anyone have luck with Unity and Ubuntu?

My virtualbox used to work, but now it is for some reason completely FUBAR: every time I try to start a VM, it crashes my host Ubuntu 12.04.1 system, I can't even bring it to reboot with the Magic SysRq key.