[Lxc-users] GUI container

[Trent W. Buck]

Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano at free.fr> writes:

> On 12/10/2010 07:21 AM, Nirmal Guhan wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Please let me know.
>
> What I am use to do is to start the container and then:
>
>   ssh -X mycontainer firefox

If the traffic is only going over the loopback interface, you could
simply leave the traffic unencrypted.  Where "dom0" and "domU" resolve
to the host OS and container respectively, something like

    dom0$ xhost + domU
    domU$ DISPLAY=dom0:0 xlogo