On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 05:46:48PM +0100, Paul de Weerd wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 12:37:04PM -0400, Z Ero wrote:
> | This should be possible, correct? I understand that vmd does not
> | currently support VGA output inside the VM but but I should be able to
> | run a headless Linux instance in a VM image hosted on OpenBSD vmm and
> | then pipe the graphical output over the virtual network interface to a
> | display on the OpenBSD host system. For example if I want to run the
> | Linux version of Mathematica this way that should be possible,
> | correct? Does anybody know of a configuration tutorial in this area?
> 
> After setting up the VM, you could ssh(1) in with the -X or -Y option
> to enable X11 forwarding.  See http://man.openbsd.org/ssh#X  Then
> running a program that speaks X will work.  At least, it does for me
> (but then I run only OpenBSD vm's under OpenBSD).
> 
> Make sure to configure sshd in your VM to allow for forwarded X11.
> See the section X11Forwarding in sshd_config(5) over at
> http://man.openbsd.org/sshd_config#X11Forwarding
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd
> 
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Although this works, I've found the performance to be less than stellar. YMMV.

-ml

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