Setting up Xorg in a jail
G. Felter
freebsd at zrizx.com
Wed May 25 18:44:12 PDT 2005
On Wed, 25 May 2005 17:56:36 -0700, darren david wrote
> Hi all-
>
> So I've got designs on running Windows Server 2003 in VMWare 3 in a
> jail as a way to have a SQL Server machine to develop against
> without having to keep another machine running. I want to jail it
> for security reasons, but maybe that's just overkill... regardless,
> I'm trying to set up Xorg inside the jail so i can manage all the
> VMWare bits, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to
> configure Xorg inside the jail, since it's technically headless and
> i only have ssh access to it. Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks, as always,
> Darren David
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I'm not sure if we are on the same page but I have a couple of jails that I
installed xorg and tightvnc. I then use the default twm (tabbed window
manager) to bring up the applications I want to use by vnc'ing to the jail. I
don't know if it is useful but it was fun to set up. Hope this helps.
G
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