Is Linux 3.13, the worst kernel version, ever? YES! It is... So, why Trust come with it? WHY!?

[Tom H]

On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Martinx - ジェームズ
<thiagocmartinsc at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5 August 2014 13:00, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 9:45 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I am not saying there's anything wrong with KVM -- it's a fine tool,
>>> for its purpose. However, if you're a desktop user and you want to try
>>> out different distros, or run a single Windows app that you need (e.g.
>>> IE or Silverlight), then KVM is really not much help at all.
>>>
>>> And personally, I don't want or need it, whereas I do need to evaluate
>>> distros quite regularly -- e.g. for this:
>>>
>>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/26/xbuntu_round_up/
>>>
>>> I used VirtualBox /extensively/ for that, but KVM wouldn't have helped
>>> me.
>>
>> I've never tried to use Unity or Gnome Shell with KVM but I'll take
>> your word that it wouldn't work because of missing OpenGL support.
>> However Gnome has a GUI frontend for KVM called Boxes. I've never used
>> it but its networking options are limited to basic slirp natting,
>> which is only useful for a non-server, so they might/must have made
>> Gnome Shell available via Boxes (with spice or vnc graphics?),
>> especially given how keen they are to prmotoe their own stuff.
>
> Tom, I'm using Gnome 3.10 (Ubuntu 14.04) as a KVM Virtual Machine,
> flawlessly. But I'm using SPICE VDI as a "virtual video voard (QXL)", the
> only thing I did to improve Gnome guest video performance, was adding the
> following line to /etc/X11/xorg.cong (`Xorg -configure` within guest):
>
> Option "ENABLE_SURFACES" "False"
>
> To "Section "Device"" of my qxl Driver...

As I'd speculated, Gnome Shell's working in kvm with spice - and it
might not work with the default sdl graphics.