Re: Debian desktop support for virtualisation

[Jaime Ochoa Malagón <chptma@gmail.com>]

Some time ago...

http://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64-howto.html

In general there is no need of it any more...

Good luck

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd appreciate any input from the Debian desktop (gnome, kde) and
> amd64 folks regarding supporting easy integration of support for
> running desktop/X applications in a chroot environment, particularly
> for running 32-bit programs in a chroot on 64-bit systems.
>
> schroot is commonly used for this task, and I'm adding a "desktop"
> configuration profile, which I'd like to work "out of the box" to
> allow desktop applications to run inside a chroot.  More detail
> is given below, and in the full bug report.
>
> Basically, I'd like to add whatever pieces are needed from the
> host system, be it bind mounting filesystems, making sure
> the needed services are accessible, copying over configuration
> etc.  Anything that makes using a chroot more transparent and
> accessible to users is on the cards.  If anyone has already
> added customisations to schroot to make this work, sharing your
> configuration details would also be useful.
>
>
> Thanks!
> Roger
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 12:15:42AM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
>> Over the last couple of nights, I've added support for "profiles"
>> to schroot, and one of these is a "desktop" profile.  Currently,
>> this is the fstab for this profile on Linux:
>>
>> # fstab: static file system information for chroots.
>> # Note that the mount point will be prefixed by the chroot path
>> # (CHROOT_PATH)
>> #
>> # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
>> /proc           /proc           none    rw,rbind        0       0
>> /sysfs          /sysfs          none    rw,rbind        0       0
>> /dev            /dev            none    rw,rbind        0       0
>> /home           /home           none    rw,bind         0       0
>> /tmp            /tmp            none    rw,bind         0       0
>> /var/run        /var/run        none    rw,bind         0       0
>>
>> I opted to bind mount the whole of /var/run to get other stuff
>> like dbus sockets.  However, doing this more selectively might
>> reduce the change of nasty problems such as things in the
>> chroot interfering with services on the host.
>>
>> Do you think there are any other things that need binding into the
>> chroot under e.g. /var that we've missed?
>>
>> The same applies to files copied in with "copyfiles"--is there anything
>> else here we should add?  Currently this is just resolv.conf, but any
>> other stuff needed by X or other things in the user's session could be
>> copied here.
>
> Regards,
> Roger
>
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