Others have addressed KDE 4 so I'll skip that.
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.
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.
On 1/8/08, Jack [email protected] wrote:
Not being much of an Xen user, I thought I'd ask the list for input. I've been wanting to test out some newer applications and whatnot, but don't want to shake things up on my existing platform. I've considered multi-partitioning and multi-booting, but that would be disruptive in a multiuser set up as mine. I frequently have multiple X Sessions with different users running, so rebooting isn't a good solution. I've been wanting to load KDE4 and start experimenting on it and deciding when to roll it out to my "production" system. So I thought Xen or another virtual machine app might be a good choice. Does anyone currently run Xen, or are there others who have an opinion on how I can have a KDE4 desktop and other newest release software and latest kernel running on on of my X Sessions, and still have the stable production code on other's desktops? Separation of code is important here, but I want to be able to access the common /home and /root directories.
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