Re: [Xen-users] RE: Getting X Working in domU's

[Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I was looking to start an xserver on it so that I could display it on tty8
> or tty9, for example.  I guess I could go into my domU's console (or
> through ssh) and export DISPLAY to my dom0.  That would probably be a
> workaround.  But It would be nice to change tty's to 8 and be on one domU,
> tty9 for a different domU, etc..

The current solution is to use an existing network-aware display system.  X 
would work fine as you describe, VNC also works pretty well and NX should 
perform quite nicely.

In the medium term, we're likely to get a virtual framebuffer device so that 
the domUs display system doesn't need to be network-aware.

The virtual console switching solution you describe has also been discussed 
and may be implemented at some stage.

Long term, a virtual 3D device (high performance 3D graphics from a domU, in a 
window under dom0) is something we'd like to see.

Cheers,
Mark

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> What are you actually aiming to do?  Give a real physical monitor to the
> domU
> (i.e. dual head with a different head for each domain?) or just get a
> graphical interface to the domU is a window in dom0?
>
> Cheers,
> Mark
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> On Thursday 21 April 2005 13:37, Joe.Hoot@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > I haven't heard anyting on this in a couple of days so I thought I'd try
> > one more post to see if anyone has a response:
> >
> > I know that there have been mixed confirmations about getting X working
> > within domU's.  But for those who have actually got it working, I would
>
> be
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> > interested in finding out your experiences.  Currently, when I try to
>
> run
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> > Xorg -configure or startx, it complains about   xf86OpenConsole: Cannot
> > open /dev/tty0 (No such file or directory).   My domU is currently
>
> running
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> > Fedora Core 3.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Joe
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