Warn about VMs

[danirabbit]

Stolen from deepin. They throw a warning screen if you’re installing on a VM about performance etc. Probably a good idea

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[jepotter1-archive]

@danrabbit But don’t VM users already understand the issues involved?

[Philip-Scott]

Honestly it doesn't hurt to remind them. I'd even go as far as showing a first boot dialog or something due to the amount of people and reviewers that reported bugs based on issues from running it on a VM

[danirabbit]

@JWinnie I would say no, nearly never. Very regularly you'll see videos on YouTube where people don't understand that the issues they're encountering are due to having no hardware acceleration, etc

[jepotter1-archive]

Okay, I agree. I, too, tried running elementary inside of a VM and I failed.

Maybe like this:

You are running elementary inside of a virtual machine.

elementary is not designed to be run this way, and you may encounter issues.

[SubhadeepJasu]

Its been a regular trend among youtubers to review OSs on VMs and complain about problems that would other wise not occur in a regular installation. Most performance related issues. I have used this OS both on VM and on my main laptop, and the difference is huge.