Re: [lxc-users] LXC with X, specifically KDE v. VM

2014-05-06 Thread TuxRaiderPen
On Tuesday, May 06, 2014 04:04:33 Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: The easiest way would be to treat the container like any other remote host. I'm not familiar with kmail, so I assume it can be started standalone without having to start the full kde desktop? If yes, then the easiest way is to

Re: [lxc-users] LXC with X, specifically KDE v. VM

2014-05-06 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 7:16 PM, TuxRaiderPen tuxraider...@wpascanner.comwrote: On Tuesday, May 06, 2014 04:49:06 Dirk Geschke wrote: Any views, opinions, comments in re that LXC might be better, worse, even v. a VM??? Just curious, as I probably am going the LXC route, as it gives me

Re: [lxc-users] LXC with X, specifically KDE v. VM

2014-05-06 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Mon, 2014-05-05 at 23:40 -0400, TuxRaiderPen wrote: I am in a situation where I am looking to possibly use LXC as a way to run ONE specific program that needs an X desktop. What I am comparing is LXC v. my normal method a VM. What I would use is NX on the server (container) and Remmina

Re: [lxc-users] LXC with X, specifically KDE v. VM

2014-05-06 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 8:40 PM, Michael H. Warfield m...@wittsend.comwrote: One gotcha. I haven't tried this in the last year or so but, at one point, NX was broken on Ubuntu due to dependency failures in some multimedia packages and libraries that I was never able to resolve at the time.

Re: [lxc-users] LXC with X, specifically KDE v. VM

2014-05-06 Thread Serge Hallyn
Quoting Fajar A. Nugraha (l...@fajar.net): On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 8:40 PM, Michael H. Warfield m...@wittsend.comwrote: One gotcha. I haven't tried this in the last year or so but, at one point, NX was broken on Ubuntu due to dependency failures in some multimedia packages and libraries

Re: [lxc-users] LXC with X, specifically KDE v. VM

2014-05-06 Thread brian mullan
Fajar and others have given you some answers that all work. I've done what you are wanting to do using multiple methods. - x2go works great and is easy to install. server side (lxc container for you): - sudo add-apt-repository ppa:x2go/stable - sudo apt-get update - sudo