On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 12:17:23AM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > > --- Nicolas Cadou <ncadou@cobi.net> wrote: > > > Le August 29, 2008, Stephen Liu a écrit : > > > On the Host or on the Guest? > > > > On the guest, since you're getting the error by running startx in the > > guest. > > > > Is that what you really want? Running X on the host AND a second X > > instance in > > the guest? > > > No, absolutely NOT. I'm testing X forwarding. In the guest to forward > X from the host. ssh, server and client, are installed in guest. In > the guest I can ssh connect the host. But I can't forward X of host > to the guest. Because no X session is installed/running on the guest. > Therefore I install X packages on the guest in anticipation to have X > window of the host forwarded to the guest. So that I can operate host > application in the guest on X window. This is a test. most likely, you are doing it the wrong way round, and what you actually want is the following: host: running X (the thing with the gnome stuff on on the monitor, not necessarily the host the guests are on :) guest: running some X application which gets displayed on your X screen (on the host) what you need for that (besides the obvious X) is only this: - sshd (running on the guest, with xforwarding enabled) check X11UseLocalhost no (unless you have lback active) - xauth (again on the guest) to get the magic cookies :) - your X11 application, e.g. xterm or xeyes what you do is simply ssh to the guest (from your graphical desktop) and start the application HTH, Herbert > B.R. > Stephen > > Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com