yeah. i still think this is a good idea. it's a pain to have to
configure networking for a zone if all you want to do is run an
X application. unfortunatly all my free time is accounted for.
also, from my understanding, with this arc case approved:
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/caselog/2007/500/
we'd be able to get fully native application performance from an
application that is running within a zone and remote displayed via
such a tunnel to the global zone.
ed
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 11:08:46AM -0400, Nils Nieuwejaar wrote:
> We've talked about adding an X forwarding option to zlogin, which would be
> similar to 'ssh -X'. (by 'talked' I mean 'talked about informally over
> lunch', not 'prepared an effort estimate and business case.').
>
> It does seem like a useful feature, but we haven't had the cycles to really
> dig into it.
>
> Nils
>
> On Fri 10/05/07 at 17:02 PM, me at tomservo.cc wrote:
> > Here's an idea that is worth to be considered and realized:
> >
> > Implementing the necessary code infrastructure to enable sort of an X
> > server proxy, that more or less allows applications inside the (branded)
> > zone to use the X server in the global zone directly (UNIX sockets,
> > mmaps or whatever else is actually used), without DISPLAY or forwarding
> > over ssh which sends data over via TCP across CrossBow (rather expensive).
> >
> > Reasons for this are performance related. If application developers are
> > going to jump (back) onto the *nix bandwagon, which the signs slowly
> > start looking like, they're going to be targeting Linux first, and only
> > maybe Solaris depending on its success with Indiana and/or based on how
> > much Sun pays them.
> >
> > If the amount of commercial Linux applications will be growing, it'll
> > becomes expensive for Sun to sponsor ports, too. It would cost less to
> > pay developers to implement the necessary infrastructure. In an
> > optimistic view, Solaris would get access to a whole lot of more of
> > applications, again helping the popularity of Solaris as a platform for
> > commercial packages (initially with BrandZ crutches). And if that
> > happens, developers might consider the idea of doing direct ports,
> > either because they can (I suppose at some point, Solaris will be up to
> > the point, where it is equivalent to Linux on library level, so that
> > things can just compile) or to use specific Solaris functionality.
> >
> > Applications in question are the types that need high bandwidth, e.g.
> > OpenGL applications (that includes games), video applications (sending
> > uncompressed video frames over ssh), image editors (Photoshop Linux?
> > Like ever :), to name a few examples.
> >
> > This would also allow sandboxing graphics heavy application into zones,
> > for whatever reason this might be necessary. Thing that would come into
> > my mind would be application mobility using zones.
> >
> > -mg
> >
>
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