On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 02:18:19PM +0200, Romberg Christo wrote: > "I've tried the same setup with OpenVZ, but without a lot > of troubles, so I switched to Vserver" > I meant "WITH a lot of troubles...", of course.. hehe ... > My goal is to set up a couple of kiosk-computers to be used in some > public environments.. I'd like to have one host/guest per computer.. > directing the end user to the guest system on boot. I do not want to > use CHROOT due to security issues, and these computers are obsolete - > none of them have VT processors, so KVM is not an option in this case. > I've tried the same setup with OpenVZ, but without a lot of troubles, > so I switched to Vserver > It seems that all other hardware is working inside the container..even > the sound. > > you probably need to copy any devices the userspace > > driver part (from xorg) uses when setting up the > > graphics card into the guest > Where should these devices be located in the filesystem? your best chance is to start X (Xorg) with strace -fF (maybe add -o Xorg_trace) and to check this trace for 'open' and 'mmap' calls (later maybe even for 'stat') ... everything Xorg opens or mmaps which even remotely looks like a device might be relevant. > Sorry for asking dumb question - not much of a pro on Linux systems :-P no problem, you'll become a pro soon :) best, Herbert [rest zapped]