-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Package: tasksel Version: 3.09 Severity: wishlist
It would be very nice to have support for installing virtual desktop systems based upon lxc. The idea is to setup thin clients on the users' desktops (Windows or Linux) and a pool of powerful lxc servers running Debian, providing virtual desktop systems including kde, gnome, xfce, etc. The system could be based upon vnc, rdp or xdmcp/xlib. Currently the tasksel meta packages depend upon a _lot_ of packages relying upon the presence of hardware (real or virtual): udev, XWindow drivers, audio support, packages for defining keyboard layouts or console fonts, etc. These packages get into trouble on kernel-based virtualization. They try to bypass libc to access the kernel and get some kind of "permission denied". If you are lucky then they just don't work at run time, but usually they fail in the postinst script. This is fatal. Regards Harri -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk/Ef+gACgkQUTlbRTxpHjee5QCffc5qS2NMEBX09O/TPOG/u6vo nfoAni7FKpB7nhRVtvCFMrd6L9FqKloZ =LS4X -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fc47fed.4050...@afaics.de
