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Posts on ‘December 20th, 2008’

Access your global zone X11 server from a local zone, without TCP/IP!

I’ve stumbled over some ARC case enabling labelled zones in OpenSolaris (from Trusted Extensions) to access the X11 server in the global zone “natively” using Unix domain sockets instead of TCP/IP or other jokes. It seems that mounting the X11 socket with the loopback filesystem driver into your zone does the job quite well and [...]