On Wednesday 09 January 2008, Jack wrote:
Yes, chroot might be an option, although I've never run an XServer in it before.
Neither have I. Usually I just run the X server on the main system while having the clients (KDE et al) in the chroot.
Running from CD isn't an option, remember I have to leave logged in users up while I'm doing my testing on the same machine. I would have thought though that this is a perfect scenario for virtual machines.
Yeah, that's why I said Qemu, which is a virtual machine. Just run 'qemu -cdrom SomeLiveCD.iso' and you're good to go.