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I had an interesting thought this afternoon.
What are the chances of starting X straight into Virtualbox without a real WM?
I'm thinking of a situation in which someone could log into a machine from Slim, gdm, or even using startx from a prompt and enter directly into a Virtual machine. Those around me who have no interest in even hearing the work Linux would not need to dual boot my machine. I feel much safer not giving that other OS access to my machine outside of a sandbox and this would ease the Linux anxiety of my spouse.
I've never heard of this being done. Has anyone else?
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I think there's no reason it won't be possible. The first time she presses the right control key will be disorientating though.
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You could be running some hypervisor and pick one of the guest OSes from Slim / gdm etc.
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I use slim and have a line in my xinitrc for my debian-mint vm. Configure slim.conf accordingly and it works great.
My .xinitrc:
DEFAULT_SESSION=awesome
case $1 in
awesome) exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch awesome ;;
urxvt) exec urxvt -geometry 179x52 ;;
mintvm) exec `VirtualBox --startvm 'Linux Mint'` ;;
*) exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch $DEFAULT_SESSION ;;
esac
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I use slim and have a line in my xinitrc for my debian-mint vm. Configure slim.conf accordingly and it works great.
My .xinitrc:
DEFAULT_SESSION=awesome case $1 in awesome) exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch awesome ;; urxvt) exec urxvt -geometry 179x52 ;; mintvm) exec `VirtualBox --startvm 'Linux Mint'` ;; *) exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch $DEFAULT_SESSION ;; esac
That is exactly what I had in mind. I just needed some help with the incantation :-)
You could be running some hypervisor and pick one of the guest OSes from Slim / gdm etc.
Hypervisor. There is a serious hole in my knowledge. I'm aware of it, I know it would help in my $DAYJOB, and I've promised myself to learn about it -- someday. Maybe that someday is here.
I think there's no reason it won't be possible. The first time she presses the right control key will be disorientating though.
Good point! Maybe I should make the host key a bit more obscure.
Thanks Guys.
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