--- Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> wrote: > 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 Hi Herbert Done as advised. Thanks Having tried more than an hour w/o result. Steps performed as follows; Remark: a) Host can't ssh connect Guest, no password can satisfy. I don't know why. Tried as root as well as user (satimis). The passwords are correct. But Guest can ssh connect ths Host. b) On Guest, remove all packages, xserver-xorg-core, xorg, fluxbox, gdm, etc. installed previously leaving firefox behind. On Host 1) Start Guest and enter it 2) ssh connect the Host # ssh 192.168.0.110 (Host local IP) 3) # netstat -plnu | grep :177 No printout. gdm is running on Host. 4) # X -query 192.168.0.110 :2 A full screen is displayed without anything on it. Mouse pointer can be moved around. No key operation works. Neither can I escape to close the screen. Finally I have to press a hard reset to reboot PC. B.R. Stephen Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com