* On 2017-10-24 at 23:19 BST, Lonnie Cumberland wrote:

> Long story short, I think that I would like to take a copy of SmartOS and
> see about adding a very small XServer and just one X-application to the
> global zone.
> 
> With this in mind, I was wondering if anyone has done something similar, or
> might be able to offer some guidance as I am really coming from the
> Windows/Linux world and my Solaris background is very limited.

It's possible but will require you to build your own version of
SmartOS.  Off the top of my head you'll need to include at least the
xsvc driver, as well as pre-populating the required users.  It's not
particularly difficult, but will require quite a bit of trial and
error until you have everything necessary baked into your image.

For what it's worth I use Tribblix as my test distribution for the
illumos pkgsrc packages, it's a nice small distribution that generally
gets out of the way and lets me focus on testing our packages to
ensure they work across illumos distributions.  My test usually
involves installing a full set of Xorg and some desktop environment
which works fine so that is certainly one alternative option.

Cheers,

-- 
Jonathan Perkin  -  Joyent, Inc.  -  www.joyent.com


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