Re: [Xen-users] Very Basic Question

[Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I haven't been able to start the GUI on my DomUs up til now. As far as I
> could figure out, the live CD DomUs run a VNC server to which the Dom0
> connects to.

Yep.  The demo CD runs "vncserver" automatically in a domain, which creates a 
virtual X display you can connect to using VNC.

> I spent some hours connecting the DomU to a Dom0-X-server (according to my
> opinion this should also be feasible) but it failed on some
> X-authorization-stuff... The DomU received a rejection from the
> Dom0-X-server. In other words, the communication seemed to work but the
> authorizations were not set properly.

Have you tried using SSH with X forwarding?  Just SSH to a domain using "ssh 
-X domain", then run an X application.  It should appear in a window, just 
like it would if you were SSH-ing to a real machine.

> This might not be exactly what you wanted to know... all I can say is that
> X/Gnome/KDE is possible - and I also would be pleased if somebody could
> name a HOWTO or anything else which could help here.

VNC, Xnest and FreeNX are also good things to look at.  SSH with X forwarding 
is probably the simplest.

Cheers,
Mark

>
> Thanks!
>
> Cz.
>
> On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 09:31:12 +0200, Stewart Outram
>
> <stewart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I appreciate that this is a very basic question ....
> >
> > I have installed Xen and managed to create a few Domains running Debian
> > and Gentoo. In both cases I then attempted to create a Desktop
> > environment by installing X but hit some problems.
> >
> > Searching through the archives it seems that an X environment is not yet
> > supported within a Domain, and hence I guess the setting up of
> > Gnome/KDE ?
> >
> > If this is the case are people currently using the Domains purely as
> > command line interfaces?
> >
> > Looking at the various images there seemed to be a Desktop environment
> > supported in some way.
> >
> > Stewart
> >
> >
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