Re: [orca-list] How you can help

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

I think you hit the nail on the head regarding VMs, I don't know that my 
hardware supports virtualisation (I think I have seen essages appearing 
regarding that). My desktop is a 2.4GHz pentium 4, and the laptop, may 
be that does support virtualisation (don't know at all) but the HD is 
too small to have multiple systems installed (40GB split between linux 
and windows, its a bit tight). Saying about that, its the one nice thing 
about boot environments on opensolaris, it only saves the differences. I 
am unsure how possible it would be to set up freebsd with boot 
environments, I have never had success at installing freebsd in the 
first place. I believe something like BEs could be done on other 
systems, the only thing is how the various components are integrated to 
make it easy to work with.

Michael Whapples
On 03/03/2010 03:23 PM, trev saunders gmail com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> One question would be how to go about creating such an environment?
> OpenSolaris has that nice feature of boot environments which I imagine
> really fit well. However as I mentioned in the past I have a problem
> with the hardware support in the latest builds (on the laptop X refuses
> to start, on my desktop my better soundcard isn't supported (that's a
> must) although I believe some extrra drivers may come but they are still
> limited compared to options for Linux). Hardware support is possibly one
> of the biggest barriers for opensolaris, compared to Linux opensolaris
> has a long way to go for supporting most computers.
>
> You might be able to make freeBSD and xfs work the same you would for solarus.
>
> An alternative may
> be virtual machines, but I have to say I never got them working well,
> they seem to run so slow on my systems I can't see them being practical.
> Has anyone tips for using VMs?
>
> I've found kvm using hardware virtualization to be usably fast for this sort of work.  one thing you might 
> want to fiddle with is allowing the vm more than kvm's default of 128M of ram which is probably to little for 
> gnome.
>
> Any other suggestions I have missed?
>
> It might be possible to run gnome and orca in a chroot that has a different version from the default, but 
> I've never tried.
>
> HTH
> Trev
>