On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Negative <negativebinomial at gmail.com> wrote: >> Not sure what that means. Freenx would at least keep the sesson >> active when you disconnect. >> > > I was trying to say, but not very well, that when qemu-kvm is running a > guest and X is running, whether it's on the local video hardware or not, I > get a kernel panic. > > So now I've found I can run X without problems and I can run qemu-kvm > without problems, but I cannot run both at the same time. 'X' should be split cleanly into client and server programs where in X-speak the server serves the display and keyboard and programs are the clients. An X client program should not be touching any hardware directly. But, virtualization stuff might try to cheat. If you don't need the local console, you might try loading VMware ESXi first, then run all your other OS's as guests under that - you do need a windows box to run as the console when making changes or installing things, though. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com