On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 11:33:12AM +0000, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > On Sat, 2010-12-25 at 11:56 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Le samedi 25 décembre 2010 à 10:40 +0000, Emmanuele Bassi a écrit : > > > > Well, none of the currently available virtualization solution does it > > > > correctly. Now what? > > > > > > incorrect: GL passthrough in QEMU allows to run the MeeGo netbook user > > > experience, which is based on Mutter and Clutter, exactly like > > > gnome-shell: > > > > > > http://wiki.meego.com/MeeGo_SDK_with_QEMU#Setup_QEMU-based_MeeGo_Emulator > > > > Given how GLX is designed (in short: giant root security hole), that > > basically means giving root access on the host to any user on the guest. > > and, as I said in the rest of my email, virtualization is only > interesting for testing/evaluation and development purposes.
Which affects live CDs and images people use to evaluate GNOME 3. Not being able to preview GNOME 3 in a VM might possibly hinder adoption a lot. I've also seen lots of people running virtualized GNOME desktops as VMs under Windows in production. Cheers, -- Guido _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
