Sugar in a VM

[Jack]

Cool, that's pretty much what I was looking for. I wouldn't have come up with the metacity part. The other parts I've done before. 

Thanks,
Jack

--- On Tue, 12/1/09, Jason D. Clinton <me at jasonclinton.com> wrote:

> From: Jason D. Clinton 
> 
> On that subject, has anyone ever launched a VM directly
> from X? Or do I need to plan on making it something that
> runs after she logs into her KDE/Gnome session? So far
> I've only run VMs from inside of KDE. Although I
> don't see why I couldn't do it from a VT shell.
> 
> 
> You need to create a new session .desktop file and place it
> in /usr/share/xsessions (potentially the FHS
> /usr/local/share/xsessions may work). Copy an existing one
> and point Exec= to your own script.
> 
> 
> You script needs the following minimum contents:
> metacity &
> vm-kvm-what-command -fullscreen
> 
> You need a window manager to handle dialogs and metacity is
> the only sane way to go for this. It has only gconf and and
> glib as dependencies.
>