I've run GUI programs (firefox, libreoffice) in containers, but never a DE. But judging from the number of desktops with 100k+ pulls on hub.docker.com, I'm guessing people do it.
And I would think running a DE in a container and using VNC or rdp in Centos to get to it would be quicker and less resource intensive than running it in a VM. Still not game-worthy, but I hate Virtual Box and VMWare, and I can only sort of tolerate virt-manager. Barry On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 7:25 PM, Scott Morris <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
