<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Jack <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:quiet_celt@yahoo.com">quiet_celt@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>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.<br>
<br>You script needs the following minimum contents:<br>metacity &<br>vm-kvm-what-command -fullscreen<br><br>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.<br>
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