Hello

On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 02:08:23PM +0200, Torsten Becker wrote:
> Hello List,
> 
> I try to run a complete workstation in a vserver including a x-server.
> This is no problem since I do not try to use the hardware acceleration 
> with the nvidia kernel module.
> I have set several capabilities for the vserver:
> 
> CAP_CHOWN
> CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH
> CAP_FOWNER
> CAP_FSETID
> CAP_KILL
> CAP_SETGID
> CAP_SETUID
> CAP_SETPCAP
> CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE
> CAP_NET_BROADCAST
> CAP_NET_RAW
> CAP_SYS_MODULE
> CAP_SYS_RAWIO
> CAP_SYS_CHROOT
> CAP_SYS_PTRACE
> CAP_SYS_PACCT
> CAP_MKNOD
> CAP_LEASE
> 
> I copied the device files from the host to the vserver. If I use the 
> "nv" driver for xfree all is well. But if I try to use "nvidia" xfree fails
> with the error "unable to load kernel module". This is clear for me.
> Then I tried to figure out which device is used with the "nv" driver. I 
> tried to copa the device file /dev/nvidia0-4 from the host to 
> /dev/video0-4 in the vserver.
> But the 3d-accel does not function...
> 
> Does anyone have a hint for me, how I can manage this? Or is it impossible?
> I use this configuration to deploy the workstations to a pool of pc's. 
> Therefor the security between host and vserver is not first goal.

What I did when I set up such a system (about 1.5 years ago) on a 2.4 kernel
I did just like you did. What I also did was to load the kernel module on the
host system (not in the vserver). It worked like a charm. However it was some
time ago and on 2.4 kernel.

Regards,

// Ola

> Greets, Torsten
> 
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