On 1/13/15 13:44 , J Marc Edwards wrote: > [JME] So the KVM Ubuntu desktop is running on a VNC port on the SmartOS KVM > zone. It seems that I should be able to log into the KVM console and then > perform a "startx" with it recognizing that the display for the console will > respond to the GNOME desktop. The X-windows concept of the DISPLAY > environment variable seems to get lost here in the zones. What am I missing > here?
I think there's a bit of a fundamental misunderstanding of what's going on here and what vmadm console does. What you desire is not currently possible. vmadm console for a KVM instance does not magically redirect the VGA or serial console to the device, you can logically think of it as running socat to attach to a serial console, which is emphatically not a VGA console. There is no way to assign the hosts video device and console to a zone such that it can be used to start an X11 session. Even more so, a hardware virtualized guest has an entire set of virtualized hardware that it uses for its VGA console. It's disjoint entirely from the hosts video resources. You should conceptually think of a zone as a remote host. Robert ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
