On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Julian Hall wrote:
> One feature that I (and I suspect others) would find extremely useful would
> be to allow the GUI to detach and attach to running processes. This would
> be acheived, I guess, by using some kind of GUI server module, as a
> replacement to the standard X11 ui module.
[snip]
> This would be (very) useful for setting up virtual server systems...
>
> Any comments/ideas?
One of the things which annoyed me about VMWare was that you had to
launch it from X. If we have a way of running a VM without any GUI,
then it would probably be useful to connect to it later and see what
the console looks like.
I think that a lot of the functionality you're asking for could be
implemented already using VNC, but it's still probably useful. I
wouldn't think that it's too much work hacking the GUI plugin (in
whatever form it may end up in) to support detaching/re-attaching.
Personally, I'd be more interested in a text-only (still VGA?)
interface.
Chris
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