Hi Ludo, I've tried 'guix run' for a little bit and I think it has a lot of potential! One of the problems with guix environment containers is that it can take quite a while to build. 'guix run' could solve that.
Adding Xpra to 'guix run' and/or 'guix environment' in some way could definitely be handy for isolation purposes. For the most part it would just consist of starting up a Xpra socket and exposing that to the container, then maybe automatically attaching to it. I've pushed a change to Xpra to start Xvfb with '-nolisten local'. This disables abstract sockets for the Xorg server that gets started with Xpra. As a result, using the commands below, you should be isolated even on the same network namespace. I can also write something for the Guix documentation, though i'm not sure if that's considered out-of-scope. On Fri, 16 Feb 2018 17:55:46 +0100 l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: > Hello Rutger, > > Rutger Helling <rhell...@mykolab.com> skribis: > > > Here's a small tip for how you can create graphically isolated > > containers with Guix and Xpra. > > > > First we create a Xpra server, with no clipboard access. > > $ xpra start --clipboard=no :200 > > > > Next we switch to an empty tmp directory, and start a Guix > > container that has access to the X200 socket only. $ cd tmp > > $ guix environment -C --ad-hoc coreutils gedit > > --expose=/home/$USER/.Xauthority --expose=/tmp/.X11-unix/X200 -- > > env DISPLAY=:200 XAUTHORITY=/home/$USER/.Xauthority gedit > > > > On a different terminal (or over SSH) you can now access the Xpra > > server. $ xpra attach :200 > > Nice trick! > > Did you see the discussion at > <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2018-01/msg00056.html>? > > This is something we could directly add to ‘guix run’ or similar. > > Ludo’.
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