Aranym is an X application. However, you may wish to run it headless for a buildd or on a remote server.

dummy

Once you have networking and startup debugged, you can run aranym headless using the following command.

SDL_AUDIODRIVER=dummy SDL_VIDEODRIVER=dummy aranym-mmu -l -c sid.config

xvfb

xvfb is easy to install and use. The downside is you'll need to do any console or network debugging beforehand. {{{apt-get install xvfb xvfb-run --auto-servernum aranym-mmu -l -c sid.config}}}

I'm not sure there is any advantage to this over using the dummy drivers.

vnc

vnc is a little more complicated to setup, but allows console access via any vnc client. I prefer vnc over ssh, so that's what this setup will show.

apt-get install vnc4server

My vnc-aranym script essentially does this. 

DISPLAY=1
NAME="aranym_host_name"
SIZE="640x480"
vncopts="--securitytypes=none --localhost"
vnc4server :$DISPLAY -name $NAME -geometry $SIZE $vncopts

$DISPLAY needs to be unique for each vnc session. $NAME is handy for multiple vnc sessions and gets passed to .vnc/xstartup. Debian-installer seems to like SIZE="640x400" a bit better. The $vncopts are because I'm using ssh to handle encrypted remote access.

.vnc/xstartup:

{{{#!/bin/sh

# Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop: # unset SESSION_MANAGER # exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

[ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup [ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources xsetroot -solid grey vncconfig -iconic &

case "$VNCDESKTOP" in

esac }}}

Where /srv/aranym/config has the aranym config file and logs is where the aranym output goes.

Then make sure that .vnc/xstartup is executable (chmod +x .vnc/xstartup).

So once you executed vnc-aranym, you may connect remotely to the vnc server (the aranym console) over ssh with the following.

xvncviewer :1 -via aranym_host_name