[maemo-developers] Multiple instances of Maemo

[From: Graham Cobb]

On Thursday 04 June 2009 20:11:41 Qole wrote:
> I've asked a similar question before. It seems that maemo-launcher can only
> have one instance running at a time, so that effectively limits the number
> of Hildon desktops that can be running to one as well.

The answer is to run each one in a separate virtual machine environment.  This 
is also useful for keeping scratchbox instances separate for doing things 
like compilations against different SDK versions at the same time (scratchbox 
insists that only one target is running on a single machine at a time).

This can be done using full virtualisation environments like VMware or Qemu.  
Or it can be done using user-mode-linux to run a separate linux instance.  
What I don't know is if it can be done just using chroot's to separate the 
environments -- if so, that would be much faster (although there are other 
disadvantages like having to run as root).

Of course, setting up multiple virtual machines might be overkill for what you 
are trying to achieve. And it may be too slow.

Graham