Sorry Bart; I know the difference between Bart and Brad, I apologize especially considering all the help you have given me. On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 16:43 -0500, William Case wrote: [snip] > > > > If you have a modern CPU, you should get a kernel that supports KVM and > > run another distro inside a virtual machine. You can then hack up the > > virtualized kernel and not worry about breaking things. > > Ah! That's what I want. My cpu is an AMD Athlon 64 x 2 Dual-Core. > > > > See http://kvm.qumranet.com/ for more info. Feel free to ask if you > > want some help on KVM. > > I may need help to get started. Since I don't need a new partition, my > project for today and tomorrow is to get F8 installed, updates > downloaded and my desktop rearranged. I will add git and kvm. Do you > have other tools to recommend for downloading while I am at it? > > Kinda of stupid comment on my part. Fedora 8 _64 doesn't seem to have a special kernel for supporting virtualization and people on the Fedora mailing list are discussing virtual kernels all the time. I will start with assuming that no special flavour of the kernel is necessary. There are vm programs that people seem to be using. [snip] > -- Regards Bill