Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Xvnc in a zone

2013-03-24 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2013-03-24 22:18, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: The optimum solution is for me not to have to zlogin or ssh into the zone and start vncserver, but be able to login remotely into the zone from anywhere within a trusted lan. So I'd like to try to get that working nicely, just as I have Xvnc working

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Xvnc in a zone

2013-03-24 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
The optimum solution is for me not to have to zlogin or ssh into the zone and start vncserver, but be able to login remotely into the zone from anywhere within a trusted lan. So I'd like to try to get that working nicely, just as I have Xvnc working well for remote login to the global zone of

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Xvnc in a zone

2013-03-24 Thread Peter Tribble
On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 8:19 PM, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: > It should work in principle, using Xvnc and/or Xephyr in lieu of xnest. It > doesn't, and the main problem seems to be that gdm professes to depend on > dbus, and dbus refuses to install in an NGZ. I suppose that's reasonable. > > I supp

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Xvnc in a zone

2013-03-24 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
It should work in principle, using Xvnc and/or Xephyr in lieu of xnest. It doesn't, and the main problem seems to be that gdm professes to depend on dbus, and dbus refuses to install in an NGZ. I suppose that's reasonable. I suppose one might be able to fake the dbus presence, exactly how dep

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Xvnc in a zone

2013-03-24 Thread Michael Stapleton
On Solaris 10, I used to configure my zones to run xnest as the X server with the display directed back to the global zone. xhosts in the global zone was configured to allow the zones access. It worked like a charm. I even had a linux branded zone I used for google earth. In that case I used zlog

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Xvnc in a zone

2013-03-23 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
Hmm. I suppose that is the only way. Except I have this nagging feeling it can be done otherwise. The dbus package CAN be installed in zones, but some people seem to advise against it. Or that's what I believe. On 2013-03-23 11:39, Jim Klimov wrote: On 2013-03-23 11:23, Hans J. Albertsson w

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Xvnc in a zone

2013-03-23 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2013-03-23 11:23, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: Is there some simple way to get Xvnc working from within a non-global zone?? I am certain it is possible, but my positive experience would be of limited help - for historical reasons we're more accustomed to a homebrewn build of TightVNC with a res

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Xvnc in a zone

2013-03-23 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
Is there some simple way to get Xvnc working from within a non-global zone?? I e I'd like to sit logged in to the global zone as always, and be able to run a vnc session to an ngz in a window. It can be a very small desktop, what I'm after is the visual feedback of "You're in a twisty little n