[Users] X11 and vncserver under VPS

[Kir Kolyshkin]

Eric,

First, when submitting a bug report or a problem description please 
always try to be as specific as possible. In this case it would be 
helpful if you tell exactly the packages you have installed, the 
commands you use to do that etc.

Second, the problem is xorg-x11 requires kernel-drm thus kernel is about 
to be installed but it conflicts with our 'dev' package. If you have 
used vzyum or yum it just bails out telling there is a conflict.

Anyway, to solve the problem some trick is needed. The trick is to have 
a package installed which claims it provides kernel-drm = 4.3.0 so 
xorg-x11 dependencies will be satisfied. So I have an updated version of 
dummy package (which is created just for those tricks) that does just 
that; it is attached.

What you need to do with it is:
1. Place it to /vz/template/fedora-core/4/i386/vz-addons/ directory.
2. cd to that directory and run createrepo as root (if you do not have 
createrepo installed you can take rpm from 
http://linux.duke.edu/projects/metadata/generate/)
3. Update template cache by running vzpkgcache (check that this very 
version of dummy package is put into cache), then create a new VPS and 
go on from there (vzyum VPSID install xorg-x11 vnc-server).

Restoring your existing VPS would be a bit more complex...

Eric L. Sammons wrote:

>First, let me start by stating I am fairly new to OpenVZ.  Now, last night I 
>tried to use the pre packaged template for Fedora-core-4-default, which worked 
>fine, then I attempted to install vncserver + X11.  These installs all seemed 
>to work fine, I did notice that a new fedora kernel was installed.  Well, at 
>some point I decided to vzctl restart <vpsid> and it seemed the image started, 
>but I could not access it via ssh or vzctl enter.  When hardware 0 reboots it 
>shows OpenVZ starts, but that VPS 101 fails to start.
>
>So any idea how I might set up X11 under a VPS?  Also, along the same note, is 
>there a good reference on how to build my own template?
>
>Thanks!
>
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Kir Kolyshkin <kir at sw.ru>  ICQ 7551596