Hello Valmor,

Try starting VBoxClient, and not vboxadd-xclient.

Regards,

Michael

de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote:
> Hello Michael,
> 
> I typically have my .xinitrc file as follows
> 
> vboxadd-xclient
> exec wmaker
> 
> I commented the vboxadd-xclient line and fired up startx. Once the
> window manager was up, I started a xterm client and from within the
> xclient I issued
> 
> vboxadd-xclient
> 
> with results:
> 
> Unable to connect to the host system.
> Failed to connect to the host system.
> 
> I looked at the vboxadd-install.log under /var/log and it looks fine.
> Also, dmesg does have any complaints.
> 
> The clipboard is not shared between host and guest therefore it is
> awkward to copy and paste, but I can save results to files and transfer
> to the host and e-mail to you if needed.
> 
> Is there a xorg.conf for a vbox-1.6 linux guest somewhere I can look at?
> There are warnings and other messages (even EE, I believe) in the
> Xorg.0.log file. Should I post the contents of this file?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> --
> Valmor

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