I get another chance to be impressed with vmx, the graphics is more capable than I would have dreamed!
So, question: I've built a container (and from there a cpio, used with the sidecore command) with Xorg in it and nothing else. I'm trying to start Xorg in a vmx guest, but it's the usual x11 server dance of "ah ah ah! you didn't say the magic word!" -- has anyone gotten Xorg to work in a linux environment with a vm guest and what does your Xorg.conf look like? thanks On Mon, Jun 16, 2025 at 5:48 AM David Arnold <[email protected]> wrote: > On 6/15/25 17:35, sirjofri via 9fans wrote: > > I read a bit through Wayland and it seems like we could take a Wayland > implementation (like weston) and adjust it to output to devdraw instead of > using Linux DMA or vulkan or whatever. That adjusted Weston could run > inside the Linux vm. That way, the bridge could be easily synchronized with > future software updates, and it comes with the X compatibility layer. Plus, > it is a native Linux program running in a Linux environment, so it should > be easy to compile it without changes. > > > > Of course, we'd have to also bridge the inputs, but I think that should > be doable. Looking at the architecture, Wayland also forwards the inputs to > the client, so the Wayland compositor would be the only component between > the Linux program and our plan 9 world. > > > > At least, that seems to be a way to have graphical Linux programs like > Firefox on plan 9 without developing and maintaining a full X server or > Wayland compositor. > > Not my work, but this was mentioned on the plan9port list, and might be > relevant: > > https://github.com/9fans/plan9port/compare/master...eaburns:plan9port:wayland > > d > ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Td71c087b037b58f9-Mdf4c232bcc8575cf4e16c727 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
