--- Luke -Jr [email protected] wrote:
On Tuesday 08 January 2008, Jack wrote:
I've been wanting to load KDE4 and start
experimenting on it and deciding
when to roll it out to my "production" system.
I don't think anyone is seriously considering KDE4 in production until at least 4.1
No but I want to be comfortable with it before I get to that point.
So I thought Xen or another virtual machine app
might be a good choice.
Or just install KDE4 alongside 3 and run it on a seperate X server. Failing that, a chroot should work nicely.
I'm really looking for solutions that allow me to truly keep the codebases separate. I don't want KDE4 and other apps installed in the same environment as my stable codebase. Is there something wrong with installing and running Xen and other virtual machines? Yes, chroot might be an option, although I've never run an XServer in it before. 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. And while on the subject of VMs, is it possible to load Xen, and then do a restore of say Windows XP Pro into a virtual machine? It would be nice to free up that partition and do away with dual booting. Not that the machine has been booted into XP ever, but it's there taking up space, jic.
Thanks for your input, Brian