>You do not need Xpra for that: normal X11 over TCP on the network of the >VM is enough.
>Xpra would bring you the ability to detach apps on a per-VM basis, from >the real display, but compared to just hiding the windows it only saves >a small handful of resources on the display, and costs more resources on >the VM themselves. >On the other hand, Xpra is nowhere as transparent as plain X11, it is >added on top of a virtual X11 server and optimised for low-bandwidth and >high-latency and uses bitmaps and video codecs to speed up the display. >On something high-bandwidth low-latency like between host and VM, you >just get the drawbacks of having a virtual X11 server sending bitmaps of >its windows. I didn't understand well what you meant. On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 4:33 PM Nicolas George <geo...@nsup.org> wrote: > Mario Marietto (HE12025-04-25): > > Exactly. A whole new Linux distro can be made following your approach. > The > > distro that I have had in mind since ages. A Linux distro that acts as a > > main box with a lot of little boxes inside. Each one is a vm with a > > different OS (FreeBSD,NetBSD,OpenBSD and so on). And Xpra installed on > each > > virtual machine / distro. And in the main distro,using Xpra you can call > > all the different commands and applications that belong to each distro. > > Something like this : > > You do not need Xpra for that: normal X11 over TCP on the network of the > VM is enough. > > Xpra would bring you the ability to detach apps on a per-VM basis, from > the real display, but compared to just hiding the windows it only saves > a small handful of resources on the display, and costs more resources on > the VM themselves. > > On the other hand, Xpra is nowhere as transparent as plain X11, it is > added on top of a virtual X11 server and optimised for low-bandwidth and > high-latency and uses bitmaps and video codecs to speed up the display. > On something high-bandwidth low-latency like between host and VM, you > just get the drawbacks of having a virtual X11 server sending bitmaps of > its windows. > > Regards, > > -- > Nicolas George > > -- Mario.
