"cannot connect to X server arthur2:10.0" - any help? * Herbert Poetzl schrieb: [...] > try loading the module on the host, and do not forget to > provide the device nodes (interface to userspace) to the > guest .. also note that this is a potential backdoor to > the kernel (not worse than vmware on a non Linux-VServer > machine though), and you might want to consider using > kvm instead of the vmware player I'll try kvm later, my customer runs a completely configured WinXP under vmplayer, I don't want to re-install all. Okay, vmplayer seems to run, modules are loaded by the host. Next problem: Start vmplayer with ssh -X to a Linux client fails withs lots of error messages. A more simple testing: pc16@arthur:~> ssh -X pc19@10.0.0.49 /opt/kde3/bin/kwrite kwrite: cannot connect to X server arthur2:10.0 on the vserver's log: Jan 5 22:50:01 arthur /usr/sbin/cron[19932]: pam_loginuid(crond:session): set_loginuid failed opening loginuid I searched with google and found your ( Herbert Poetzl's) thread: comment out pam_loginuid.so in /etc/pam.d/*. I commented out: arthur2:/etc/pam.d # grep pam_loginuid.so * atd:#session required pam_loginuid.so crond:#session required pam_loginuid.so login:#session required pam_loginuid.so sshd:#session required pam_loginuid.so xdm:#session required pam_loginuid.so then rcsshd restart (suse 10.2). Now on client the same error message: pc16@arthur:~> ssh -X pc19@10.0.0.49 /opt/kde3/bin/kwrite kwrite: cannot connect to X server arthur2:10.0 but any error message on vservers log (/var/log/messages), each connect: Jan 5 23:00:23 arthur sshd[20226]: Accepted publickey for pc19 from 10.0.0.9 port 52410 ssh2 and nothing else! Where could be the fault? Starting vmplayer: pc16@arthur:~> ssh -X pc19@10.0.0.49 vmplayer '/home/vmware/WinXPprof/WinXPprof.vmx' /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmplayer: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2) (vmplayer:21209): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: (vmplayer:21219): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: BTW: a ssh -X .... kwrite or .... vmplayer to Suse 10.2 machine natively installed works fine! thx Ekkard