Re: [Xen-users] Getting GUI to work with Xen PVMs

[Priya <pbhat@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Javier,

Thanks for replying! I tried installing x11-apps (for 'xeyer') and xterm but get the same 'segmentation fault,�dpkg: error processing x11-common (--configure)' in both cases:

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root@xen13:~# sudo apt-get install x11-apps

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree � � ��

Reading state information... Done

The following extra packages will be installed:

��cpp cpp-4.2 defoma file fontconfig-config libexpat1 libfontconfig1

��libfreetype6 libgdbm3 libice6 libmagic1 libpng12-0 libsm6 libx11-6

��libx11-data libxau6 libxaw7 libxcb-xlib0 libxcb1 libxcursor1 libxdmcp6

��libxext6 libxfixes3 libxft2 libxkbfile1 libxmu6 libxmuu1 libxpm4 libxrender1

��libxt6 perl perl-modules ttf-dejavu ttf-dejavu-core ttf-dejavu-extra ucf

Suggested packages:

��cpp-doc gcc-4.2-locales defoma-doc dfontmgr psfontmgr x-ttcidfont-conf

��libfreetype6-dev libterm-readline-gnu-perl libterm-readline-perl-perl

��mesa-utils

Recommended packages:

��libft-perl perl-doc

The following NEW packages will be installed:

��cpp cpp-4.2 defoma file fontconfig-config libexpat1 libfontconfig1

��libfreetype6 libgdbm3 libice6 libmagic1 libpng12-0 libsm6 libx11-6

��libx11-data libxau6 libxaw7 libxcb-xlib0 libxcb1 libxcursor1 libxdmcp6

��libxext6 libxfixes3 libxft2 libxkbfile1 libxmu6 libxmuu1 libxpm4 libxrender1

��libxt6 perl perl-modules ttf-dejavu ttf-dejavu-core ttf-dejavu-extra ucf

��x11-apps

0 upgraded, 37 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

7 not fully installed or removed.

Need to get 777kB/16.0MB of archives.

After this operation, 49.7MB of additional disk space will be used.

Do you want to continue [Y/n]?�

Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-3ubuntu0.3 [189kB]

Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main libxcursor1 1:1.1.9-1 [24.2kB]

Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main libxmuu1 2:1.0.4-1 [13.4kB]

Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main x11-apps 7.3+1 [551kB]

Fetched 777kB in 1s (495kB/s)

Extracting templates from packages: 100%

Preconfiguring packages ...

Setting up x11-common (1:7.3+10ubuntu10.2) ...

Segmentation fault

dpkg: error processing x11-common (--configure):

�subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 139

Errors were encountered while processing:

�x11-common

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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It is possible that my machine is lacking some basic files, even though I have performed an update/upgrade.�

Can someone provide pointers as to why I am unable to install any software on my PVM?

As far as 3d OpenGL animation is concerned, I would prefer something like 'glxgears' but its not important. Thanks you for all your suggestions. Once I am able to install software on my PVM, I will test with all of them and see what works best.

Thanks again!

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Javier Guerra Giraldez <javier@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Priya <pbhat@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> All,
>
> I am working with Xen 3.0 (I think, though can someone please tell me how I
> could verify this!)
> I want to install a couple of PVM which I could access with a X-terminal. (I
> don't know if I am using the correct terminology here, so I will elaborate:
> I want to start my PVM, ssh to them using the -X option [ssh -X user@pvm_ip]
> from another machine, and be able to run a command like "glxgears", so that
> a pop up window showing the gears-animation shows up and the console prints
> the FPS information).

glxgears is a demo of OpenGL. if you don't need 3d, use another test,
like 'xeyes', or even 'xterm'.

if you do need openGL but don't mind it being (very) slow, search
about mesa3d. it's a software-only implementation of OpenGL but �i'm
not sure it works over a network.

if you _do_ need hardware accelerated 3d, search about vmgl; but i
don't know how complete is it already, or even if it's really usable.

another option is Virtualbox....


--
Javier

--

Priya Bhat

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