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• new commercial features:
• edit Android ID and Device ID (IMEI/MEID number) values from Genymotion;
• a new "pixel perfect" mode was added - in this mode, each pixel of the device will be displayed using only one pixel of your monitor;
• factory reset;
• clone virtual devices;
• new features for all users:
• Genymotion now supports copy/paste from the host to the virtual device, or from the virtual device to the host using Android built-in copy/paste feature;
• virtual device CPU number and memory size can now be modified from the device settings;
• bug fixes:
• you can now resume virtual devices download;
• when downloading a virtual device, Genymotion could crash if a timeout occurred. This issue is now fixed;
• the window size of the virtual device is now correctly resized to fit the host screen when rotating;
• when uninstalling Genymotion on Linux, the directory specified on installation was deleted, sometimes deleting non-Genymotion files. Genymotion now uses its own directory to fix the problem.

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Ubuntu Touch Emulator seems to be based on the Android Emulator

Install Ubuntu Touch Emulator

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-emulator

sudo ubuntu-emulator create myinstance
ubuntu-emulator run myinstance

The first time you're running the emulator, the boot will take a while. When it finishes booting, a shell with Ubuntu Touch will start, asking you to enter the username and password:

Both the username and password are "phablet" (without the quotes). After this, it will take yet another few minutes and Unity 8 with Mir should be loaded in the Ubuntu Touch Emulator.

Ubuntu Touch Emulator

Y PPA Manager

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:failsdownloadsteam/y-ppa-manager
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install y-ppa-manager

Xfce DockBarX plugin

The Xfce DockBarX plugin (which allows DockBarX to be used as a panel applet for Xfce) was updated with just one bug fix / work-around but which is pretty important as it should get the applet to work properly on many systems where it would only work if it was started after logging in (didn't work after a logout/login).

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dockbar-main/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends xfce4-dockbarx-plugin

• Added Android 4.3 virtual devices;
• Indie or Business license only: new remote control widget which allows you to control the accelerometer and multi-touch gestures in your application directly from any real device;
• Indie or Business license only: new screencast widget which allows you to take screenshots or screencasts from any Genymotion virtual device;
• drag&drop support (this requires ADB to be correctly set up in the Genymotion settings):
• if you drag&drop an APK from your computer to the virtual device, it will be installed and launched automatically;
• ZIP packages containing /system directory tree will be deployed automatically;
• the virtual device creation window now lets you filter devices by Android version, device name; also, a search bar has been added;
• Android 2.3 (yes, 2.3!) virtual device available as a preview with this release;
• a slideshow describing some Genymotion features and tips is now displayed while waiting for your virtual device to be installed;
• it's now possible to change the folder where Genymotion virtual devices are stored;
• two toolbars are now available in Genymotion: one for the Genymotion widgets and one for Android actions;
• CyanogenMod Filemanager has replaced Astro as the file manager used in Genymotion virtual devices;
• more

APK installation using drag&drop in Genymotion 2.0

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• Text drawing in Direct2D.
• Support for the new thread pool API.
• Toolbar state saving.
• Beginnings of an implementation for proper HID support.
• Support for file objects in device drivers.
• Various bug fixes.

How to : Install Wine 1.7.47 on Ubuntu / Linux Mint via PPA

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppasudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get install wine1.7 winetricks

sudo apt-get remove wine1.7 winetricks

sudo apt-get remove winerm -rf $HOME/.winerm -f $HOME/.config/menus/applications-merged/wine*rm -rf $HOME/.local/share/applications/winerm -f $HOME/.local/share/desktop-directories/wine*rm -f $HOME/.local/share/icons/????_*.xpm 

• VMM: added support for guest crash report MSRs with Hyper-V paravirtualization
• VMM: fixed an issue causing artifically high load averages on Linux hosts
• VMM: fixed a kernel panic with thread-context hooks caused by incompatible changes made to Linux 4.2 kernels
• VMM: fixed a saved state issue with VT-x/AMD-V disabled
• VMM: fixed VERR_SUPDRV_TSC_DELTA_MEASUREMENT_FAILED Guru Meditations on certain AMD CPUs
• VMM: fixed a crash while creating a guest core dumps via the VM debug facility (5.0 regression)
• VMM: This release has AVX2 passthrough disabled on every host and AVX passthrough disabled for 64-bit VMs on 32-bit hosts.
• GUI: fixed rare hang and crash on VM shutdown/poweroff
• GUI: X11: fixed few crashes caused by the Qt alien widgets feature
• GUI: X11: fixed various mini-toolbar geometry quirks like positioning, z-order, transiency issues on certain window managers
• GUI: X11: fixed mini-toolbar minimize button issue under certain window managers
• GUI: VM menu actions availability should now be properly updated on full-screen/seamless/scaled mode switches
• GUI: disk encryption password validation should be performed when user confirmed the password, not after each entered symbol
• GUI: do not change the VM/group selection in the VM Manager to the newly created VM if it was created by another client (e.g. VBoxManage)
• GUI: Mac OS X: do not treat ‘almost maximized’ VM windows as ‘maximized’, watch for the strict window geometry instead
• GUI: improve the quality in scaled mode under some circumstances
• VBoxManage: do not deny changing the network adapter type at VM runtime
• VRDP: allow Windows 10 RDP clients
• Audio: fix a possible crash on VM process termination
• Storage: improved raw disk access on OS X by unmounting any accessed volume before first use and prevent any mount attempt by the host
• 3D: basic support for saving/restoring display lists
• Drag and drop: fixed guest to host transfers on OS X hosts
• Drag and drop: fixed memory leak on Windows guests
• Shared Folders: fixed a problem with accessing CIFS shares
• Shared Folders: improved path conversion between hosts and guests with different path separators
• API: skip resetting of immutable media when the VM in saved state is started
• API: fixed method for setting medium IDs which used zero (invalid) UUIDs instead random (valid) UUIDs if no UUIDs were passed
• API: for Windows host fix detection of API client crashes which have a session open
• OVF: properly export all VBox features including the setting for paravirtualization
• Mac OS X hosts: El Capitan USB fixes
• Windows hosts: fixed crash when opening Windows dialogs from the VM process on Windows 10
• Windows hosts: fixed host-only adapter creation issues on Windows 10
• Windows hosts: fixed audio on Windows 10
• Linux hosts: more fixes for activated SMAP on Linux 3.19 and newer
• Linux hosts: check then name space before attaching to a host network interface
• Linux Additions: Linux 4.2 fixes
• Linux Additions: improved the performance of stat() to speed up certain file operations on shared folders
• Windows Additions: fixed a potential crash in the WDDM driver with Windows 10
• Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.17
• X11 Additions: various seamless mode fixes, including invisible windows under LXDE.

How to install VirtualBox 5.0.2 on Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid and Ubuntu 14.04 Trasty Tahr ;

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian vivid contrib" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list'
wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-5.0

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian trusty contrib" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list'
wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-5.0

• Nested mode is currently disabled (unity-system-compositor) as it crashes Unity8 (seems to be an issue with latest Mir from lp:mir/devel, as it also happens on ARM);
• Gallery-App doesn't work properly, probably because it's still trying to use libGL.so.

Ubuntu Touch x86 Emulator video

How to install Ubuntu Touch x86 Emulator in Ubuntu

• in Ubuntu 14.04 running on my laptop: I was able to install and run it without any issues;
• in Ubuntu 12.04 running in Virtualbox (so double virtualization...): the emulator was installed successfully and it worked, but there were some vertical stripes rendered on top of the Ubuntu Touch x86 emulator, which made it unusable. This might be because of VirtualBox though.

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:phablet-team/tools
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-emulator

sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo ubuntu-emulator create UbuntuTouch --arch=i386

A while back, Canonical released an experimental Ubuntu Touch emulator running Unity 8 and Mir. Back then, there were a few bugs, including a nasty one on 64bit that could break the system and since they were fixed, I though I'd write an article on how to properly install and use the Ubuntu Touch Emulator in Ubuntu 14.04, 13.10 and 12.04.

Install Ubuntu Touch Emulator in Ubuntu 14.04, 13.10 and 12.04

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:phablet-team/tools
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-emulator

sudo apt-get upgrade

Creating and running instances

sudo ubuntu-emulator create UbuntuTouch --channel=ubuntu-touch/utopic-proposed

sudo ubuntu-emulator create UbuntuTouch --arch=i386 --channel=ubuntu-touch/utopic-proposed

Error while converting ~/.local/share/ubuntu-emulator/UbuntuTouch/system.img: Unknown option 'compat'
qemu-img: Invalid options for file format 'qcow2'.

ubuntu-emulator run UbuntuTouch

The first time you run the emulator, the boot process will take quite a while. When it finishes booting, a shell with Ubuntu Touch will start, asking you to enter the username and password:

Ubuntu Touch Emulator with a 0.7 scale on my 1920x1080 monitor.

ubuntu-emulator run --scale 0.5 UbuntuTouch

• the downloaded images are stored under ~/.cache/ubuntuimages
• the images are stored under ~/.local/share/ubuntu-emulator

Deleting instances

sudo ubuntu-emulator destroy UbuntuTouch

ubuntu-emulator list

Creating / restoring snapshots

ubuntu-emulator snapshot --create=SNAPSHOT1 UbuntuTouch

ubuntu-emulator snapshot --revert=SNAPSHOT1 UbuntuTouch