Hi everybody! Firing this one off in as many places as I can :)
I'm trying to appliance-ify a CentOS 7 VM. This looks like it may be a lost art as boxgrinder is dead and no one has talked about virtual appliances in years as best I can tell. Anyway, the first challenge there is to just spawn a control console on tty1, which systemd actually makes somehow easier. So that's done. I can spawn a program on tty1, I can even do all kinds of cool things with selinux contexts, environment, users, etc. One problem though, 16 color terminal. I really want at least 256 colors, you know, for the marketing dept. #hudsuckerproxy The "classic" way I think of of fixing that is to wrap whatever in fbterm. Which isn't available anymore, but no big, it compiles, packages and installs cleanly. It won't run, of course, because there's no /dev/fb0 and there also doesn't appear to be any modules you can load which will create it. Well, scratch that, the centos-xen repo contains kernels that have the vga16fb module compiled in which will create /dev/fb0, but that's a useless /dev/fb0 that only supports 16 colors. There might be a way to load vmwgfx or some such in a way that creates it, but I haven't found that yet. Oh, and of course all of this is complicated by the fact that I'm trying to hit all of VirtualBox, Fusion, Workstation and ESXi - each of which seem to have subtly different display adapters. Which might be a future problem... except it all works fine in EL6/CentOS6. So basically I'm now deep into a cavern and there's a yak here. Does anyone know how to shave it / how you are supposed to do this today? Cheers, --Nick _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
