Xvfb Virtual Frame Buffer in a local zone?

Ok, so this is a bit of a science project....

Was wondering if anyone had gotten this working?

in the GLOBAL: the following works...

/usr/openwin/bin/Xvfb screen 1024x768x24


Doing the same in a LOCAL gives:

# /usr/openwin/bin/Xvfb screen 1024x768x24 
There is no XDISPLAY information for display 0. 
Check the OWconfig file(s) and try again. 

Fatal server error: 
The server will now exit because of configuration problems. 
# able to restore text mode on vfb# 
# 

So lets get a little fancy to get rid of the "XDISPLAY" error... edit /usr/openwin/server/etc/OWconfig and add:

# Virtual X Display for virtuals
class="XDISPLAY" name="5" 
coreKeyboard="NKBD" corePointer="NMOUSE" 
dev1="vfb"; 

Ok, now lets try the Xfb command in the LOCAL again...

# 
# /usr/openwin/bin/Xvfb :5 screen 1024x768x24 

Fatal server error: 
The server can't access IO registers. 

#

trussing this event shows lots of stuff, but no smoking gun (from what I can tell...)


Anyone have any experience in this area?

many thanks,

-- MikeE

Oops... forgot to mention...

This seems to work just fine for SPARC, its on x86 (SUN v40z) that there seems to be some sort of issue?

thanks, 

-- MikeE
(truncated truss output for those interested...)
sigaction(SIGXCPU, 0x08047CE0, 0x00000000) = 0 
sigaction(SIGXFSZ, 0x08047CE0, 0x00000000) = 0 
sigaction(SIGTHAW, 0x08047CE0, 0x00000000) = 0 
sysi86(SI86V86, 0x00000004, 0xFFFFFFFF, 0x08415378) Err#1 EPERM [sys_config]
fstat64(2, 0x08046FE0) = 0 

Fatal server error: 
write(2, "\n F a t a l s e r v e".., 21) = 21 
The server can't access IO registers. 
write(2, " T h e s e r v e r c".., 38) = 38

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