Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 12:48:53 -0700 From: darren david <darren@3x3x3.org> To: "G. Felter" <freebsd@zrizx.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting up Xorg in a jail Message-ID: <42962825.7020802@3x3x3.org> In-Reply-To: <20050526015022.M93912@absolutelycrap.com> References: <42951EC4.50301@3x3x3.org> <20050526015022.M93912@absolutelycrap.com>
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G. Felter wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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" > > !DSPAM:42952a63631901062018743! > Cool. I'm going to give that a shot. FWIW, did you have to do anything with your Xorg.conf file? Obviously, running "Xorg -configure" in the jail fails since there's no display. thanks, darren
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