From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 26 01:44:12 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3918C16A41F for ; Thu, 26 May 2005 01:44:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@zrizx.com) Received: from killer.zrizx.com (killer.zrizx.com [65.98.81.94]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E582D43D48 for ; Thu, 26 May 2005 01:44:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@zrizx.com) Received: from absolutelycrap.com (killer [65.98.81.94]) by killer.zrizx.com (8.13.4/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j4Q1q89Q092044; Wed, 25 May 2005 21:52:08 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from freebsd@zrizx.com) From: "G. Felter" To: darren david Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 02:52:08 +0100 Message-Id: <20050526015022.M93912@absolutelycrap.com> In-Reply-To: <42951EC4.50301@3x3x3.org> References: <42951EC4.50301@3x3x3.org> X-Mailer: Open WebMail 2.51 20050228 X-OriginatingIP: 24.195.184.164 (admin) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.51 on 65.98.81.94 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting up Xorg in a jail X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 01:44:12 -0000 On Wed, 25 May 2005 17:56:36 -0700, darren david wrote > Hi all- > > So I've got designs on running Windows Server 2003 in VMWare 3 in a > jail as a way to have a SQL Server machine to develop against > without having to keep another machine running. I want to jail it > for security reasons, but maybe that's just overkill... regardless, > I'm trying to set up Xorg inside the jail so i can manage all the > VMWare bits, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to > configure Xorg inside the jail, since it's technically headless and > i only have ssh access to it. Any thoughts? > > Thanks, as always, > Darren David > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" I'm not sure if we are on the same page but I have a couple of jails that I installed xorg and tightvnc. I then use the default twm (tabbed window manager) to bring up the applications I want to use by vnc'ing to the jail. I don't know if it is useful but it was fun to set up. Hope this helps. G