Linux: How to statically link against system libs?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Nick Sabalausky" <a at a.a> wrote in message 
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> The only problem I'm having now (aside from the fact that I haven't 
> attempted to deal with the other shared host server yet - the debian one 
> from the horrible ipower company), is that CentOS 4.2 (or maybe it's just 
> KDE) runs so slow in a VM that it frequently doesn't recognize when I let 
> go of a key and so then it goes off doing crazy shit. :/  Or it'll swap my 
> key presses if I type too fast. At one point I had a hell of a time just 
> getting it to let me type in "cd dmd" correctly. (I don't think it's 
> entirely because of my computer though. XP runs just fine in a VM for me, 
> even with only 192MB RAM allocated to it instead of the 512MB given to 
> CentOS 4.2) So I'm going to try putting CentOS 4.9 in a VM and replacing 
> KDE with XFCE. And I'll also have VirtualBox enable 3D accel and see if 
> maybe then the "VirtualBox Guest Additions" package will be able to use 
> OpenGL.
>

It turns out the problem is rooted in the fact that 2.6 kernel uses 1,000Hz 
for...umm...something or other...whereas the 2.4 kernel only used 100Hz. 
Seems that's caused a lot of big performance problems in VMs. Apperently 
this was sorted out in one of the CentOS 5.x point releases, but CentOS 4 
needs to use a specially-built kernel. Which, of course, I don't have a 
f'ing clue how to do. I did find some pre-made "VM-ified CentOS" VMs here: 
http://people.centos.org/tru/vmware/  I got the 
"centos-4-20100321/CentOS-4_desktop.i386.zip" one, and it seems to work 
except that X doesn't run because it complains it can't find any screens (or 
something like that). Not a clue on how to fix that, but the text-mode 
commandline + VirtualBox's shared folder's should hopefully be enough for me 
to at least get by.