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Re: [Xen-users] Newbie: How to run Xwindows in the guest OS

To: Srinivasan S <ssrini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Newbie: How to run Xwindows in the guest OS
From: "John A. Sullivan III" <jsullivan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 07:51:32 -0400
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On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 06:15 +0000, Srinivasan S wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I got Fedora Core 4 to boot via the Xen kernel.  Then I configured the
> guest os config files as recommended in the examples on teh Xen
> documentation.  Then tried loading Ubuntu via the guest OS.  Ubuntu
> boots and stops at login prompt and I am able to login to tty1.  I
> tried with Suse 10 and same result (run level in both configs was set
> to 5)   
> 
> Question:  How do I get X to run in the guest operating systems ie.
> Suse or Ubuntu ?
> 
> System: P4/512MB RAM/256 is used by Xen on FC4 and the balance is for
> the guest OS
> 
<snip>
I do not believe you can run an XConsole directly.  When we have needed
an XConsole, we have installed VNCServer on the domU and accessed
graphical applications that way.  However, I would assume you can find a
way to run a terminal based installation or, better yet, drop down a
preconfigured file system and simply edit the pertinent files (since the
device drivers are all virtualized).  Hope this helps - John

PS - I am also pretty new so someone else may have much better ideas :-)
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