[Lxc-users] GUI container

[Nirmal Guhan]

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Nirmal Guhan <vavatutu at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Christoph Willing <c.willing at uq.edu.au> wrote:
>>
>> On 11/12/2010, at 1:04 AM, Matto Fransen wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>
>> Most of my containers are without X (run level 3). When I have one that
>> needs a X environment I start an Xvfb with a simple window manager (mwm)
>> using a boot script. When I need gui type access to it, I run x11vnc in the
>> container and access that environment from anywhere with vncviewer.
>>
>>
>> chris
>>
>>
>> Christoph Willing                       +61 7 3365 8316
>> QCIF Access Grid Manager
>> University of Queensland
>>
>>
>
> Do I need to start container with X (level 5?). I tried these steps :
> 1. Start container in level 3.
> 2.  lxc-console into container
> 3. Run Xvfb (that returned error as)
> #Xvfb :0 -screen 0 1024x768x16 -ac &
> SELinux: Invalid object class mapping, disabling SELinux support.
> (EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so failed
> (/usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such
> file or directory)
> (EE) GLX: could not load software renderer
> 4. Run mwm
> # mwm
> Error: Can't open display: 0.0
> I have set display to 0.0
>
> If I start Xvfb with no options I still get the above errors.
>
> Any idea on what I am missing?
>
> Thanks,
> Nirmal
>
Worked after setting the display to "ipaddress:0". BTW, a naive
question. Is it possible to start the container itself in level 5 as I
do for host so I don't have to use vnc stuff ?
--Nirmal