Comment by bo0tzz
5 days ago
My pipedream is to have a containerized desktop environment like this that outputs directly to a physical monitor over HDMI/DP without needing an X server on the host machine. So far I haven't found any clear answers on whether that's possible at all.
I feel I've been nerdsniped or, some other term for your quest being contagious, I also now need to know if this is possible
I found a thread from someone who seems to know what they're talking about saying it's not going to happen "on your hardware", but doesn't mention what hardware might be required
https://forum.level1techs.com/t/can-intel-integrated-gpu-out...
Edit actually reading that link again it sounds like a USB adapter worked right away as a monitor for the VM and the OP is asking how to prevent this ! So seems you just need to enable GPU passthrough, and a USB HDMI will appear to your VM ? Will have to try this later today
This runs with on all hardware with no X server on the host: https://github.com/sabrehagen/desktop-environment
My desktop environment does exactly this: https://github.com/sabrehagen/desktop-environment