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. mark