Negative wrote: > On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 11:00 AM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: >> Les Mikesell wrote: >> > On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Negative <negativebinomial at gmail.com> >> > wrote: >> <snip> >> >> 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. >> >> Actually, if you do that, you can log into ESX1 - it's actually a >> modified RHEL 3, I think. It's the remote admin GUI that you need >> WinDoze for. >> > VMware's a possibility. Would I need to remove the kvm package? Do I have > to keep libvirtd off? You could. > > I still wonder what is causing this. I couldn't find any mention of a > similar problem, including on my desktop in my office, where I have a very > similar setup, with four kvm guests, two Fedora, one Centos 6 and one > Windows XP. It keeps coming back to sounding like a hardware problem, maybe the video card. mark