Re: [vserver] Guests using X with X Server on Host

From: Oliver Welter <mail_at_oliwel.de>
Date: Thu 31 Jan 2008 - 10:21:27 GMT
Message-ID: <47A1A127.8070105@oliwel.de>

Hi Mio,

ok bit than I need a way to pipe the output from xvfb to the hosts X
server...is there a way to do ?

Oliver

Mio Nilsson wrote:
> Oliver Welter wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I want to use vserver to run a set of application-servers as guests.
>> Unfortunately the app is controlled via a GUI, so I need a X Server
>> inside the guests from time to time to look at the apps...
>>
>> The box is remote and currently hosts only one app, the customer uses
>> vnc to connect to the box, which he wants to keep for commodity reasons.
>>
>> Is there a nicer way than running one X server inside every guest?
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Oliver
>>
> Well, there's always Xvfb - which is a virtual framebuffer that works
> like an X-server. You can find information about it here:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xvfb
>

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