[OpenIndiana-discuss] Xvnc in a zone

[Hans J. Albertsson]

It should work in principle, using Xvnc and/or Xephyr in lieu of xnest. 
It doesn't, and the main problem seems to be that gdm professes to 
depend on dbus, and dbus refuses to install in an NGZ. I suppose that's 
reasonable.

I suppose one might be able to fake the dbus presence, exactly how 
depends on what that dependency really entails. And I haven't had the 
time to check, no more. Or can gdm be configured to not bother with dbus??



On 2013-03-24 16:13, Michael Stapleton wrote:
> On Solaris 10, I used to configure my zones to run xnest as the X server
> with the display directed back to the global zone. xhosts in the global
> zone was configured to allow the zones access.
> It worked like a charm.
>
> I even had a linux branded zone I used for google earth. In that case I
> used zlogin to run google earth, and in the zone the DISPLAY was set to
> the global zone.
>
> I have not tried any of this recently, but you could look in that
> direction.
>
>
> Mike
>
>
>
> On Sat, 2013-03-23 at 11:23 +0100, Hans J. Albertsson wrote:
>
>> Is there some simple way to get Xvnc working from within a non-global zone??
>>
>> I e I'd like to sit logged in to the global zone as always, and be able
>> to run a vnc session to an ngz in a window. It can be a very small
>> desktop, what I'm after is the visual feedback of "You're in a twisty
>> little non-global zone" afforded by the x desktop inside a fairly large
>> window.
>>
>> Being able to start a gnome session in the ngz from a laptop might also
>> be neat.
>>
>>
>> First attempt (to just copy the working Xvnc installation from a
>> separate server's GZ) failed with references to dbus.
>>
>> I suppose one could run a ssh -X zone xterm (or other client), but I
>> just wanted to try the full X thing.
>>
>> Things I find on the internet and particularly Oracle blogs are a wee
>> bit unclear, probably leaving out some crucial package that people
>> working at Oracle always install w/o thinking. They do seem to say that
>> it can be done.
>>
>> Things are complicated a bit by the server with the NGZ's I'm running
>> also being a SunRay server for 3-4 clients.
>>
>>
>>
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