[OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana Intro questions

[Lonnie Cumberland]

Thanks All,

You have some great information here and I'll dig more into this to see
what may, or may not, be possible.

John, you are correct in that the idea, if at all possible, was to run the
X-Server inside a container/vm and keep the core IllumOS/OpenIndiana to the
absolute minimum in side as well but that may not be achievable.

I did find that VNC has DirectVNC for working with the framebuffer (
http://drinkmilk.github.io/directvnc/) and am exploring it more now.

More than like, I will have to run some type of native X-Server and then
remote into the VM's with VNC or FreeRDP, etc... I was just hoping for a
better solution that this pathway.

I'll also look more into OpenIndiana and OmniOS as well.

Cheers and thanks again for the help,
Lonnie

On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 1:31 PM, John D Groenveld <jdg117 at elvis.arl.psu.edu>
wrote:

> In message <C6915875-235D-4376-A49C-D68D9137DF90 at a.sc05.rmdlvry002.com>,
> Gary G
> endel writes:
> > x-windows support from that.  (I've run apps like xterm etc. from a
> remote des
> >ktop).  Unlike OpenIndiana, native desktop functionality is limited.
>
> I think the OP also wants to run the X server in a container with
> the IO devices passed to it from the global zone.
> I vaguely recall this wish list in an OI or Omnios forum.
>
> Another similar use-case is passing the framebuffer from host
> to VBox or KVM guest to run games and other graphics intensive
> applications.
>
> John
> groenveld at acm.org
>
>
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