[systemd-devel] possible to run systemd-nspawn in a nested Xorg server?

[Lennart Poettering]

On Wed, 25.06.14 19:18, Kai Krakow (hurikhan77 at gmail.com) wrote:

> 
> Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net> schrieb:
> 
> >> I wonder if it is possible to spawn systemd nspawn containers in a way
> >> that the login manager and GUI start up in a nested Xorg server so that I
> >> can run the container system in a window. I don't need the boot process
> >> in that window, just Xorg, when started, should open a nested Xorg window
> >> in my host system.
> > 
> > Well, a container in many regards is just a networked host like any
> > other. Depending on your login manager you can totally use it to manage
> > remote displays. And yes, one of those remote machines might by an xnest
> > running on your host.
> 
> I just hoped there was already some standard way to do it. I will figure it 
> out on my own then and report back. No problem. ;-)
>  
> > How to set that up is probably something to discuss with the login
> > manager guys though...
> 
> I'm currently a little bit confused what you mean by login manager... If you 
> mean something like lightdm: I'm using that. But I don't want to switch back 
> to my login manager to open a remote session into the container. I just want 
> to run it from CLI from within my KDE session.

Yeah, I was refering to gdm, kdm, lightdm.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat