Am Donnerstag 17 Januar 2008 schrieb Raúl Sánchez Siles: > El Martes, 15 de Enero de 2008, Martin Steigerwald escribió: > > Am Dienstag 15 Januar 2008 schrieb Hendrik Sattler: > > > Hi, > > > > Hi Hendrik, > > > > > some people here obviously already tried it. I cannot (only one > > > system without a CD writer) and have some questions: > > > > > > First: is it possible to try it in something like VirtualBox? > > > > I have it in virtualbox. Works pretty nice. You can't fully test > > compositing easily at least with OpenGL tough, it won't obviously not > > hardware accelerated. > > I think the closer way to the real thing(TM) for using kde4 and > keeping your kde3 installation untouched is creating a chroot. Well it > is not as close as running a whole kde4 installation or a kde4 livecd > but it allows you to test it thouroughfully and this includes opengl > effects. > > This is the way I chose, I created an unstable chroot and configured > the kde3 kdm to run on display :1, while kde4 kdm will run on :0. This > is because I can only run one xorg instance with opengl acceleration. Sounds interesting. Especially as I can test KDE 4 with OpenGL then. And bind mount my home directory into KDE4 chroot, rsync ~/.kde to ~/.kde4 to see what KDE4 makes out of my KDE 3 configuration ;). Not without backup of cause. -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7
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