Abuse? A headless vm running in the background is hardly a major drain on resources... You'll have to partition off a slice of RAM (half a gig to a gig should s

Abuse? A headless vm running in the background is hardly a major drain on resources... You'll have to partition off a slice of RAM (half a gig to a gig should suffice), and the CPU will have a little more work to do, but realistically there won't be a significant performance difference. The magic here is SSH and X forwarding, which basically runs the non-graphical side of the application in the vm and the graphical side in the X client. Here's an example of X forwarding an application remotely: http://buu700.com/xforward http://buu700.com/xforward If you decide to use this approach, let me know if you need any help with anything.