rbw wrote:
So I'm using KDE until I evolve up the desktop chain (I'm really going to love XEN...) and run apps made to use the Gnome libs...
Xen doesn't virtualize the video hardware, as far as I can tell. I haven't been able to get a "real" console to any of my VMs. The console you do get is a pseudoserial console to which the xm app can attach. And even then, this pseudoserial console doesn't properly deal with ncurses, et al, so it's increasingly less useful than it could have been.
After a bit of reading it appears as though you can dedicate the video hardware to a specific domain (vs. always in the dom0 -- i guess a necessity if you want to run winblows), but you definitely can't share it or virtualize it for use between all the domains. :( Waaa!
VMware is probably more of what you want in this case, as it actually does virtualize the video adapter. In VMware server, at least, this video is markedly slow, but it works.
We'll see what happens. Perhaps Xen will mature to where it can provide a virtual framebuffer for all domains. That'd be nice.
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