Oh yeah! You can also do it that way, lol. In this case it just runs as
a virtual desktop and you remote into it. You will not be using native
graphics capabilities at that point, however. If that works for you
then run with it :)
I run my primary desktops in VM's with vmware for years (workstation or
fusion) and it performs stellar, giving me both 3d high end graphics and
flexibility. I have used virtual box and I avoid it like the plague.
Spending $60 on vmware is well worth the money, imho. I've also used
paralells... and I now use vmware :) Although it isn't as bad as
virtual box, it isn't as good as vmware either.
-Brandon
On 01/16/2018 08:22 PM, Barry Roberts wrote:
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]
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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
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