Setting up Xorg in a jail

darren david darren at 3x3x3.org
Thu May 26 12:48:43 PDT 2005



G. Felter wrote:
> 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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Cool. I'm going to give that a shot.

FWIW, did you have to do anything with your Xorg.conf file? Obviously, 
running "Xorg -configure" in the jail fails since there's no display.

thanks,
darren


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