On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Christoph Willing <c.will...@uq.edu.au> wrote: > > On 11/12/2010, at 1:04 AM, Matto Fransen wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 10:21:49PM -0800, Nirmal Guhan wrote: >> >>> Has anyone tried running a GUI app (firefox for instance) inside a >>> container or as an application container? Just want to know if this >>> requires any special steps before I tread that path. Am using Fedora >>> 12 for both host and container. >>> >> >> It is no problem to run GUI apps in a container. >> I have set up one of my containers as an X-server. From an >> old laptop I do "X -query <ip-number> and run the window-manager >> that is installed on the container. >> >> You can use ssh -X to log in into the container and start >> your X-app. > > > Most of my containers are without X (run level 3). When I have one that > needs a X environment I start an Xvfb with a simple window manager (mwm) > using a boot script. When I need gui type access to it, I run x11vnc in the > container and access that environment from anywhere with vncviewer. > > > chris > > > Christoph Willing +61 7 3365 8316 > QCIF Access Grid Manager > University of Queensland > >
Thanks for all the replies. I will try and let this forum know how it goes. Thanks, Nirmal ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Oracle to DB2 Conversion Guide: Learn learn about native support for PL/SQL, new data types, scalar functions, improved concurrency, built-in packages, OCI, SQL*Plus, data movement tools, best practices and more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Lxc-users mailing list Lxc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxc-users
