Interactive Container

[Moon-0xff]

I'm maintaining an extension that tries to support multiple versions of GNOME (from 43 to 47), my current approach for testing changes between the different versions is with LiveCDs or Virtual Machines. Both methods a pain to setup and keep updated. Using containers seems like a far better solution than this.

Could it be possible to interact (with keyboard and mouse) with the container as if it were a virtual machine?
My head goes to Xephyr or X11 forwarding as possible ways of achieving it.

Also, I didn't thought it would be possible to run GNOME from a container. This project is awesome!

[Schneegans]

Hi there! I never tried this, but it could be possible with VNC, I guess. Maybe you could follow some of the steps outlined here?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12050021/how-to-make-xvfb-display-visible

[Moon-0xff]

I'll attempt to do that when I'm able.
Though I doubt it would be doable to do it with VNC, the problem is that xvfb lacks acceleration. It seems to me that xvfb could be swapped by a non-virtual X11 display, or accessed through one with X11 forwarding.
But really I have no idea.

In any case,
Thanks for your response!