Virtualization

[Jason D. Clinton]

Others have addressed KDE 4 so I'll skip that.

As for virtualization, I would recommend KVM which is the accelerated
code-base of QEmu. For example, you would modprobe -i intel-kvm and then run
the same syntax as the earlier posted who used qemu. It requires that your
processor has VT support.

As for Xen, kernel developers seem to agree that Xen will never be merged in
to mainline because its patches are far too intrusive and manipulative.
That, and I've read a number of blogs about bizzare hardware issues. In the
web hosting space it makes a lot more sense--the desktop space is just too
video and audio driver-ladden.

On 1/8/08, Jack <quiet_celt at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Not being much of an Xen user, I thought I'd ask the
> list for input. I've been wanting to test out some
> newer applications and whatnot, but don't want to
> shake things up on my existing platform. I've
> considered multi-partitioning and multi-booting, but
> that would be disruptive in a multiuser set up as
> mine. I frequently have multiple X Sessions with
> different users running, so rebooting isn't a good
> solution. I've been wanting to load KDE4 and start
> experimenting on it and deciding when to roll it out
> to my "production" system. So I thought Xen or another
> virtual machine app might be a good choice. Does
> anyone currently run Xen, or are there others who have
> an opinion on how I can have a KDE4 desktop and other
> newest release software and latest kernel running on
> on of my X Sessions, and still have the stable
> production code on other's desktops? Separation of
> code is important here, but I want to be able to
> access the common /home and /root directories.
>
> Brian
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