Technically, no, it doesn't have to be a framebuffer. kbterm needs one to work, but if given the choice between the 16 color limitation and the overhead of X or even wayland - I'd live with 16 colors. Just from a time management standpoint - a decent config TUI proto I can swing - X I'd still be spinning up on in a month or doing something really hackish with like spawning an xterm which launches the confconsole. :(
On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 6:04 PM, Matt Simmons <[email protected]> wrote: > 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!" _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
