The missing fonts are:  dejavu-serif-fonts,* 'yum install
dejavu-serif-fonts'* resolved this issue and the display of other utilities
such as emacs.

Brett

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Brett Serkez <[email protected]> wrote:

> Installed VirtualBox 4.1.4 AMD64 on a freshly installed CentOS V6.0 x64
> system.
>
> On a Window XP system running Cygwin, logged into the CentOS system using'
> ssh -Y target' from within an xterm and started virtualbox.
>
> virtualbox started without error but none of the text is readable, text
> appears as individual outlined boxes.
>
> I have not been able to determine what is missing, but I presume missing
> fonts.   I found one reference to xorg-x11-fonts-misc, which I checked and
> is installed.
>
> I suspect not many are running this particular setup, but I am hoping
> someone on this list might either recognize this situation or be able to
> give some direction as to how to determine what is missing, what fonts
> virtualbox requires?
>
> Brett
>
>
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