I think Brandon is onto something. I'm doing a very similar thing right now. I have the lightest WM I can still use on Fedora with some fairly heavy VMs in it. I'm using VirtualBox, but VMWare is probably a more enterprise-level, solid choice. VirtualBox on top of LXDE (or TWM, or whatever) and then the VMs inside it should work if your workstation has sufficient RAM. These days, it's hard to have less than 8GB, which is plenty for the scenario you are describing. But yeah, your specialty hardware will tend to get abstracted away from the guest OS, so I wouldn't be trying to play games on it or anything.
Scott Morris [email protected] *"A jack of all trades and master of none is oftentimes better than master of one."* On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 6:41 PM, Brandon Gillespie <[email protected]> wrote: > A container of any type will be difficult because they don't virtualize > devices -- if you want to put your graphics device into the container, the > host level system cannot use it. > > Your best bet is to probably just use a virtualization stack, like vmware. > > -Brandon > > > > On 01/16/2018 03:56 PM, [email protected] wrote: > >> it looks like that i might be forced to use a system running centos 7 for >> my regular workstation. centos is not exactly known for keeping things up >> to date and i've been use to using a debian based distro for years. the >> idea that has crossed my mind is running my x server, DE, and such from a >> chroot or container. has anyone tried something similar to this? if so, how >> did you do it? i spent some time doing some web searches and didn't really >> come up with anything that i considered a useful solution. thoughts? >> >> mike >> >> /* >> PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net >> Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug >> Don't fear the penguin. >> */ >> > > > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
