Re: [Xen-users] Xwindows or Freenx in a guest domain

[Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Yup running Xen 3.0, unfortunately I never used 2.0, oh well not a big
> deal. I guess what I was really trying to do is get sound working in the
> guest, could I expect to do that without needed the pci devises
> explicitly available with that option?

I'd suggest (for now) you forward sound using NX (if you can make that work) 
or remote artsd / esd / gstreamer / whatever.

I've taken a look at doing a proper Xen virtual sound device - don't think 
it'd be that hard and would work transparently for all applications.

Cheers,
Mark

> Regards,
>
> Jamie Moore
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Williamson [mailto:mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 7:05 PM
> To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Jamie Moore; Fajar A. Nugraha
> Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Xwindows or Freenx in a guest domain
>
> > On another note, any idea what the guest domain doesn't see any of the
> > PCI devices? DO I need to provide a param in the guest config file for
> > them or something, I couldn't find anything on it in the help but I
>
> did
>
> > see an obscure email saying something to the effect of
> >
> > pci = ...
>
> What version of Xen?  If it's Xen 3.0 you can't (yet) give domUs control
> of
> PCI devices, so not seeing any PCI devices is perfectly normal.
> Eventually
> we'll re-implement the abillity to give different guests control of
> different
> PCI devices, and the "pci =" config option will return once more :-)
>
> Cheers,
> Mark
>
> > Regards,
> >
> > Jamie
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Fajar A.
> > Nugraha
> > Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 6:19 PM
> > To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Xwindows or Freenx in a guest domain
> >
> > Jamie Moore wrote:
> > > First time posting, sorry if this is a lame question but has anyone
> > > been able to get Xwindows or something like freenx working in a
>
> guest
>
> > > Xen domain? I am able to run and connect to freenx fine on the host
> > > machine as without problems, and I can install fine into the Xen
>
> guest
>
> > > but as soon as I try and connect I get the following error (in the
> > > NoMachine client):
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > > mktemp: cannot create temp file /tmp/nxserver_tmp.nhHqc3592:
> > > Permission denied
> >
> > I suggest you start with that. /tmp should be world-writable. I'm
> > guessing you didn't preserve permissions and owner while creating
> > dom-U's filesystem. "cp -a" or "tar" or "rsync -a"  should do the
>
> trick.

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