Has anyone run Sugar in a VM? I'm thinking about giving my daughter a VM session, and having it run Sugar? I understand it's very kid friendly.
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.
Jack
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Jack quiet_celt@yahoo.com wrote:
Has anyone run Sugar in a VM? I'm thinking about giving my daughter a VM session, and having it run Sugar? I understand it's very kid friendly.
Only once, long ago. It's more "never used a Windows/Mac/KDE/Gnome based computer" than kid friendly, ie. it's design for fast learners with very little to no experience with traditional desktops. if your kid is at all PC savy already, he/she may "get" a well themed XFCE install better than Sugar.
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.
Should just be a matter of changing the greeter script from launching KDE to launching the wine-kvm/xen/virtual-box guest.
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Jack quiet_celt@yahoo.com wrote:
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.
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@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.
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