[Lxc-users] GUI container

[Matto Fransen]

Hi,

On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 10:21:49PM -0800, Nirmal Guhan wrote:
 
> Has anyone tried running a GUI app (firefox for instance) inside a
> container or as an application container? Just want to know if this
> requires any special steps before I tread that path. Am using Fedora
> 12 for both host and container.
> 

It is no problem to run GUI apps in a container.
I have set up one of my containers as an X-server. From an
old laptop I do "X -query <ip-number> and run the window-manager
that is installed on the container.

You can use ssh -X to log in into the container and start
your X-app.

Have fun,

Matto
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