Others have addressed KDE 4 so I'll skip that.<br><br>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.
<br><br>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.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/8/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jack</b> <<a href="mailto:quiet_celt@yahoo.com">quiet_celt@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Not being much of an Xen user, I thought I'd ask the<br>list for input. I've been wanting to test out some<br>newer applications and whatnot, but don't want to<br>shake things up on my existing platform. I've
<br>considered multi-partitioning and multi-booting, but<br>that would be disruptive in a multiuser set up as<br>mine. I frequently have multiple X Sessions with<br>different users running, so rebooting isn't a good<br>
solution. I've been wanting to load KDE4 and start<br>experimenting on it and deciding when to roll it out<br>to my "production" system. So I thought Xen or another<br>virtual machine app might be a good choice. Does
<br>anyone currently run Xen, or are there others who have<br>an opinion on how I can have a KDE4 desktop and other<br>newest release software and latest kernel running on<br>on of my X Sessions, and still have the stable
<br>production code on other's desktops? Separation of<br>code is important here, but I want to be able to<br>access the common /home and /root directories.<br><br>Brian<br>_______________________________________________
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