<div>Denis,</div>
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<div>You can not run X on a DomU as the guest has no video hardware available, but you can do the following:</div>
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<div>run "Xvnc :0" on DomU, this will start an X server that uses a pseudo-frame buffer as video-hardware and serves that framebuffer via vnc protocol.</div>
<div>now run "gnome-session" on DomU to start the whole gnome desktop infraestructure on the guest OS (as gdm will do)</div>
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<div>Now, from dom0 that is the only one with a physical screen attached at, launch vncviewer and connect to domU-ip-address:0, this will show the remote virtual desktop.</div>
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<div>hope this helps.</div>
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<div>Raul.</div>
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<div>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: Denis Forveille <<a href="mailto:denis.forveille@gmail.com">denis.forveille@gmail.com</a>><br>To: <a href="mailto:fedora-xen@redhat.com">fedora-xen@redhat.com</a>
<br>Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 21:09:33 -0400<br>Subject: [Fedora-xen] Gnome desktop in domU? (aka xorg and startx problems in domU)<br><font size="-1"><font face="Verdana">I'm experimenting with xen on FC5 (as domU and dom0).
<br></font></font><font size="-1"><font face="Verdana"><br>The idea is to have a machine running dom0 with 4 guests, one of the guest would be my workstation/desktop (with gnome running), the others guests would be application/file/utilities servers.
<br></font></font><br><font size="-1"><font face="Verdana">I would like to perform something like:<br>- logon to the domU via ssh, from dom0 for example (</font></font><font size="-1"><font face="Verdana">I also have tried it with "xm console domU" from dom0, the result is the same)
</font></font><br><font size="-1"><font face="Verdana">- run "startx" : that should bring the standard logon screen<br>- after login, use the gnome desktop as from a standard standalone workstation<br><br>But this does not work: startx does not start (first because the
xorg.conf is not created. I've tried to run "X -configuration" to create xorg.conf, but the command fails also to create the xorg.conf file)<br>BTW, on dom0 "startx" and the gnome desktop run perfectly
<br><br>Q: <br>- Is it possible to configure X and run "startx" in a domU (I've read somewhere on the net that this is not possible...). If so how to do it?<br></font></font><font size="-1"><font face="Verdana">
- What is the best way to get a full gnome desktop workstation that would run in domU like a standalone workstation?<br></font></font><font size="-1"><font face="Verdana"><br>I've tried the "vnc" solution, it works great but have limitations (at least for me). and would greatly prefer what I described previsoulsy:
<br>(I don't know how to get the logon screen with vnc, the screen resolution can not be easily choosen/changed, the desktop to be somewhat "slower" than the "local" desktop)<br><br>Thanks in advance for any advice or pointer.
<br><br>(</font></font><font size="-1"><font face="Verdana">I'm not really a newbee with linux, but I'm far from an expert...</font></font>)<br><br>--<br> </div>