I do not understand the need here, any application such as wireshark,
firefox ... can be run graphically with ony a ssh and xforwarding, why
exactly would we need a link to the real hardware?


Le lundi 28 décembre 2009 à 14:47 +0700, Antoine Martin a écrit :
> Anselm Lingnau wrote:
> > Rodrigo Baroni wrote:
> > 
> >>   Does anybody knows if is doable to run X in uml (not Xnest or similars) ?
> > 
> > The problem with this idea is that a »real« X server expects to talk to 
> > graphics hardware of some description. VMware & co. solve this problem by 
> > actually emulating the registers etc. of a suitable graphics chip, but UML 
> > doesn't really deal in hardware; all it does is to present a Linux system 
> > call 
> > interface.
> > 
> > I suspect the nearest thing to a »real« X server on UML would be something 
> > like Xvnc, which gives you a desktop-type X session that you can connect to 
> > using a VNC client.
> Adding framebuffer support to UML shouldn't be that hard.
> 
> There was a patch which did that (never worked for me), you could then
> run X with the fbdev driver.
> 
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