From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 26 19:48:43 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 A80B616A41C for ; Thu, 26 May 2005 19:48:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from darren@3x3x3.org) Received: from yak.fluid.com (yak.fluid.com [63.76.105.204]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DF3743D1D for ; Thu, 26 May 2005 19:48:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from darren@3x3x3.org) Received: from boomstick.fluid.com ([63.76.105.102]) by yak.fluid.com with esmtp (Exim 4.44 #1) id 1DbOIU-0003UK-2k; Thu, 26 May 2005 12:45:38 -0700 Message-ID: <42962825.7020802@3x3x3.org> Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 12:48:53 -0700 From: darren david User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "G. Felter" References: <42951EC4.50301@3x3x3.org> <20050526015022.M93912@absolutelycrap.com> In-Reply-To: <20050526015022.M93912@absolutelycrap.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 19:48:43 -0000 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