On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 06:11:13PM +0000, Kirkpatrick, Jeffrey W wrote: > I am attempting to run virt-viewer via a CYGWIN X session on my Windows > laptop, but am getting all sorts of errors when I do. > > >From a CYGWIN session, I run startx, then ssh -X to the KVM Host server. > >From there I run the following command: > > [root@kvmhost1 ~]# virt-viewer rhel6guest > > And the virt-viewer window does display, however with no readable font on the > task bar, just a bunch of rectangles. After a few minutes the virt-viewer > screen dies, too. [...] > Anyone have any insights?
What's the output of xdpyinfo? It's unfortunate that Gtk is not well tested in the remote case and is often a bit broken. I use a few Gtk apps remotely all the time and tend to notice this. Fonts and icons are usually what breaks. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list
