Unfortunately VirtualBox is currently incompatible with Mir, the only VM that can run Unity8 is KVM/QEMU and possibly VMWare Player at the moment, AFAICT.
** Also affects: mir Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: virtualbox Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: unity8 (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete ** Summary changed: - Unity 8 does not start in Virtual Box + Mir does not start in VirtualBox -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to unity8 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1632968 Title: Mir does not start in VirtualBox Status in Mir: New Status in Virtualbox: New Status in unity8 package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: If I want to start Unity 8 in my virtual box /VM Yakketi, Unity does not start at all, it goes straight back to the start screen To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mir/+bug/1632968/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp