[Lxc-users] GUI container

[Matto Fransen]

Hi,

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 01:20:15AM -0800, Nirmal Guhan wrote:
> >> I have set up an short howto on setting up an xserver in an lxc linux container,
> >> see
> >> http://box.matto.nl/lxcxserver.html

[ .. ] 

> > Am trying these steps and installed X, xdm, xterm and blackbox in the
> > lxc container (which is fedora 12). Restarted my container and I see
> > that xdm service is running. 

Ah, great :)

> > However a "Xnest :1 -query <container
> > ip>" from my workstation shows up just a black window. On the
> > container log file, I see
> > (WW) xf86OpenConsole: setpgid failed: Operation not permitted
> > (WW) xf86OpenConsole: setsid failed: Operation not permitted
> > Fatal server error:
> > xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open virtual console 8 (No such file or directory)
> >
> > Do you have any clues? selinux is disabled in my system. Also though I
> > installed blackbox in my container, not sure how that will be used
> > since xdm does not have references to it. Can you clarify please?

I have no recent experience with fedora, I will try to set up a
fedora container this weekend and look into it.

Cheers,

Matto