Does it NEED to be a framebuffer, or could you do a classic "startx" and run whatever program in a kiosk mode?
On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 12:56 PM, Nick Cammorato <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- "Today, vegetables... Tomorrow, the world!"
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