When I select 'OK' I get a menu for a few options, book recommended 'reconfigure graphics.' When I try this, I get a menu of two options: You will need to configure these yourself.' Then there is an OK button way down at the bottom. Your screen, graphics card, and input device settings could not be detected correctly. After choosing the recovery mode, I get the recovery mode options, and can arrow down to what the book suggests 'Run in fail safe graphic mode.' Once I select this option, I get a black screen with a large white dialogue box, at the top it says 'The system is running in low-graphics mode. So I tried doing a safe boot holding shift - I get to the first screen (GRUB) loads fine, and I choose recovery mode. I bought a beginning Ubuntu book, and it recommends trying to manually configure graphics if this happens.

With VMware workstation 7 (patched), I complete the install of Ubuntu, it reboots, purple desktop briefly flashes then it drops to command line. With installing Ubuntu desktop in VBox, I'm getting this result: Graphics card is an Intel HD 3000 with AMD Radeon 7670M. I have a new HP Envy 4t-1000 with 16GB RAM, and 32 GB SSD caching with 500gb spindle hard drive. I need to keep my Windows OS as main on my machine for work, so I'm trying to virtualize Ubuntu 12.4.1 without luck (many attempts). My primary goal is to learn Linux and Apache/PHP development.

Brand new to Linux, getting frustrated trying to get an environment up with Ubuntu.

Vmware workstation pro 14 vs virtualbox