Can anybody please help me out here?

I installed VirtualGL 2.6.3 on a RHEL8 box, by adding the yum repo 
(https://virtualgl.org/Downloads/YUM)
&& yum install virtualgl

(I don't have physical access to the machine right now, because I'm working 
from home,
as do everybody else, but I have access with ssh).

Install Nvidia drivers for the Quadro 2000, as according to 
https://access.redhat.com/solutions/4134381 (login needed), looks OK.

Configured VirtualGL according to the UG at 
https://cdn.rawgit.com/VirtualGL/virtualgl/2.6.3/doc/index.html .

Chose "Restrict 3D X server access" and "Restrict framebuffer" to vglusers 
group, added
myself and root to the group. 

BTW, the configuration threw the error 
rmmod: ERROR: Module nvidia is in use by: nvidia_modeset
so I did
rmmod nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset rmmod nvidia; modprobe nvidia nvidia_drm 
nvidia_modeset
before I restarted gdm (init 5), but I guess this is unrelated to my 
problems, described below.

Logout, and proceeds with section 6.2.1 in the UG:  "Sanity Check"

   "log back into the server using SSH"

The guide doesn't specify if I should log in as root, or as myself. Nor 
does it
say if I should use ssh -X or not.

But whatever I try, when I run

  xauth merge /etc/opt/VirtualGL/vgl_xauth_key
I get the error "No such file".  Quite reasonable, as there is no such file.

I guess that the script 
  /opt/VirtualGL/bin/vglgenkey

should generate this key, but running it gets me nowhere, as it seems to
depend on me having a $DISPLAY. The only $DISPLAY I can manage is 
whatever I get with ssh -X, and I'm pretty sure that is not what is 
intended here.

Similarly, both

  xdpyinfo -display :0
  /opt/VirtualGL/bin/glxinfo -display :0 -c
results in
  unable to open display ":0".

Any suggestions on how to proceed is appreciated!

Best,
Hans Peter Verne
System Administrator, Dept. of Geosciences, University of Oslo.

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