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From: Herbert Poetzl (herbert_at_13thfloor.at)
Date: Fri 19 Dec 2003 - 21:31:23 GMT


On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 01:20:35PM -0800, Liam Helmer wrote:
> Basically having a desktop box that's running inside a vserver context
> -> server and client. I have nefarious purposes for this... I've already
> got it running inside a chroot with grsecurity, and that works fine.
> I've even redirected hotplug messages, so USB cameras , printers and
> such work, and I'm going to work on automounter support. There's some
> functionality differences though with linux-vserver that I'd be
> interested in testing out, however, so I'm curious if it's been done.
>
> The only oddities with X, AFAIK is its writing directly to memory, which
> is, naturally, a big security hole. It also seems to create a device for
> it's graphics card on startup, which may be an issue.

hmm, sounds interesting, keep us up to date
and don't hesitate to ask, if you don't know
why XY doesn't work with vserver ...

best,
Herbert

> Cheers,
> Liam
>
> On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 12:04, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 11:14:47AM -0800, Liam Helmer wrote:
> > > Anyone attempted getting XFree86 working inside a vserver? Anyone
> > > succeeded? I can't see why this shouldn't work, so I'm curious if it's
> > > been tried.
> >
> > to do what exactly?
> >
> > best,
> > Herbert
> >
> > > l8r,
> > > Liam
> > >
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