[email protected] wrote: > Good morning, > > I'm consolidating a number of separate, physical servers onto a single > Xen platform. > > I have installed OpenSUSE 12.1 as the Xen Host, and, I can install & > launch OpenSUSE 12.1 Xen Guests. > > All of the Guests are accessible using SSH, and are generally > functioning as servers as they're intended to. > > So far, so good. > > For one of the Guests, I need access to a root X11 application on it. > > From what I've managed to read, I understand I can do that by "enabling > X forwarding" on the Guest, opening an SSH session to the Guest, and > executing the target application (e.g. 'xterm'), and if all goes well, > the application's window should appear on (or is it "in"?) my local > desktop. > > Problem is, when I try that, I get the following error in the SSH > console window: > > "xterm > Warning: This program is an suid-root program or is being run by the > root user. > The full text of the error or warning message cannot be safely formatted > in this environment. You may get a more descriptive message by running > the > program as a non-root user or by removing the suid bit on the > executable. > xterm Xt error: Can't open display: %s" >
Seems you don't have X forwarding enabled. To enable, use the '-X' option when opening your ssh connection, e.g. ssh -X vm-hostname Regards, Jim -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] To contact the owner, e-mail: [email protected]
