I was playing around with using KVM because I have used Xen and I was wondering about KVM. I have headless servers which I use to play around with this stuff and they don't have X installed on them. So I tried the standard method and that doesn't work because KVM automatically assumes that it should run SDL. The alternative is to run VNC. The version of KVM that ships with Gutsy is broken and does not properly handle VNC, therefore you have to get the latest from the repository and compile it yourself. Afterwards run the system.

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