On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 6:41 AM, Brett Worth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jason Taylor wrote:
> When you connect to the Centos server from your remote console you said 
> before that you're
> using ssh.  Is this from another Linux system?  You need to ensure that you 
> have access to
> your local graphical interface from the remote server i.e. that you have a 
> valid DISPLAY
> variable set.  If "echo $DISPLAY" returns an empty string then maybe you just 
> need to do
> "ssh -X centos_server" when connecting so that ssh will forward the X11 back 
> to your
> display.  Then virt-manager should work.

Sometimes ssh -Y works when ssh -X doesn't.  Over time I've started
using ssh -Y as it always works.

If the server is setup correctly, it will not allow you to ssh as
root, you'll need to ssh -Y as yourself and then su -.  When you use
the su command you might loose the DISPLAY variable, in this case
simply re-establish it and all should work.

If you workstation is Linux, you have an X-Display running.  If it is
Windows, you can use Cygwin as your X-Server.

Brett
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