Master or 4.7 under VirtualBox/KVM

[Michael Jansen]

On Sunday 31 July 2011 13:32:49 Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> On Sunday 31 July 2011 12:58:05 Michael Jansen wrote:
> > Hi @all
> > 
> > I am currently trying to setup a compiled from sources master on opensuse
> > in a vm. I first tried kvm and then virtualbox.
> > 
> > In both cases i got the same problem. The vms work as expected with the
> > opensuse 11.4 provided kde 4.6 (a bit sluggish but they work) and with any
> > other DE.
> > 
> > The minute i login into my self compiled trunk (kdesupport and kde-core
> > modules from sources, qt 4.7.1 from distro) the systems hangs. X11 eats up
> > my 2 GB allocated mem in seconds and soon the session crashes (kvm) or
> > does not respond in any way (virtualbox).
> > 
> > Did we manage to break kde under virtual machines? Or is the problem here?
> > 
> > Has someone a recent kde running in a vm?
> 
> Have you tried a failsafe login?
> 
> I had tested project-neon in a virtualbox (4.1) some days ago but had to
> ensure that compositing is not active or X11 ended in an endless restart
> loop.

Failsafe did not change anything. Same result.

I btw. suspect compositing too. How can i make sure compositing is disabled 
before logging in? Or was failsafe enough?

Mike