On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 07:17 -0700, julian pitt wrote:
> Hi Tim
> Thanks for responding to my post. I took your advice with regard to
> Virtualbox as I am familiar with it already. I have installed it okk
> but I get an error when I try to run it. See below:
Cool:
> julian at opensolaris:~# VirtualBox
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: No protocol specified
> [/b]
> Can you help please Tim, what protocol is it meaning please?
You're running it as the root user, and root has no permissions to start
X clients that connect to your X display - run it as your user instead,
or run "xhost +localhost" in a separate terminal (though that's slightly
less secure)
cheers,
tim
