Xvnc [PSARC/2007/545 - Fasttrack timeout 10/9/2007]

Gary Winiger gww at eng.sun.com
Wed Oct 3 08:01:27 PDT 2007


> > 	Does Xvnc also run on XSun?  If not, do we still care?
> 
> Xvnc is it's own Xserver, so it doesn't run on top of Xorg or Xsun,
> but instead of them, for situations where you never display to local
> graphics devices but only to a VNC viewer (such as in a local zone,
> Xen domain, or headless server machine).

	OK, thanks.

> > 	The Xvnc man page talks about XFree86 server.  How do these
> > 	sections relate to Solaris X servers?
> 
> The section about " and with a VNC-enabled XFree86 server via Options	entries 
> in the XF86Config file." should be deleted from the man page
> since we are not shipping the loadable module for XFree86/Xorg servers
> in this project.   That's the only XFree86 reference I see.

	Yup.  It was confusing to me -- but then I'm easily confused....

> > 	The Xvnc man page discusses use under inetd.  Will this project
> > 	ship SMF manifests for use with Solaris inetd?
> > 	Is inetd operation supported on Solaris?
> > 	How will the admin know from the materials in this case?
> 
> I know of no reason not to allow inetd operation, but have not included
> an inetd-based SMF manifest at this time.

	Will this project include an inetd ready SMF manifest?

Gary..



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