Xen users - Apr 2007 - What do you run in Dom0 (Xen3, 64bit) for graphics console?

Hi,

What do xen3 users run in Dom0 for graphics output?

I am trying to find software configuration for completely X-less
(framebuffer only) Dom0 graphics console. I am trying to use DirectFB
1.0.0 with drectvnc. The latter seems to have some issues with 64bits
(which is forgiveable considering when it was last released) plus both
DirectFB and directvnc do not seem to be very unicode-aware (the
latter can definitely be fixed with some amount of programming which I
am about to be doing now).

I expect to use Xvnc (from TightVNC) in guest VMs (not sure about its
unicode capabilities but suspect that if correct keysyms are sent by
vnc viewer, it should have the same effect as correct xmodmap or xkb
with regular X server).

What other configurations are used? Has anybody tried an X server for
a framebuffer device (XFBDEV) in dom0 and xdm in domU? What is
XFBDEV''s memory footprint, can it be run as non-root (if user is given
proper fb access groups like video), etc?

Thanks.

-- 
Dimitry Golubovsky

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com 
> [mailto:xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com] On Behalf Of 
> Dimitry Golubovsky
> Sent: 27 April 2007 15:41
> To: xen-users@lists.xensource.com
> Subject: [Xen-users] What do you run in Dom0 (Xen3, 64bit) 
> for graphics console?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> What do xen3 users run in Dom0 for graphics output?
> 
> I am trying to find software configuration for completely X-less
> (framebuffer only) Dom0 graphics console. I am trying to use DirectFB
> 1.0.0 with drectvnc. The latter seems to have some issues with 64bits
> (which is forgiveable considering when it was last released) plus both
> DirectFB and directvnc do not seem to be very unicode-aware (the
> latter can definitely be fixed with some amount of programming which I
> am about to be doing now).
I''ve sucessfully used Dom0 in graphics-less mode using remote X
capabilities (although my current setup uses a default FC4 build with
the normal default Gnome-setup). I just use "ssh -X" for my graphics
needs and just use the "ssh" terminal for any Dom0 work. 

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Mats



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Petersson, Mats wrote:
>  
>
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com 
>> [mailto:xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com] On Behalf Of 
>> Dimitry Golubovsky
>> Sent: 27 April 2007 15:41
>> To: xen-users@lists.xensource.com
>> Subject: [Xen-users] What do you run in Dom0 (Xen3, 64bit) 
>> for graphics console?
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> What do xen3 users run in Dom0 for graphics output?
>>
>> I am trying to find software configuration for completely X-less
>> (framebuffer only) Dom0 graphics console. I am trying to use DirectFB
>> 1.0.0 with drectvnc. The latter seems to have some issues with 64bits
>> (which is forgiveable considering when it was last released) plus both
>> DirectFB and directvnc do not seem to be very unicode-aware (the
>> latter can definitely be fixed with some amount of programming which I
>> am about to be doing now).
>>     
>
> I''ve sucessfully used Dom0 in graphics-less mode using remote X
> capabilities (although my current setup uses a default FC4 build with
> the normal default Gnome-setup). I just use "ssh -X" for my
graphics
> needs and just use the "ssh" terminal for any Dom0 work. 
>
> --
> Mats
>
>
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Do you had a real framebuffer (direct accessible through e.g. c 
programs) in the dom0?

Philipp

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