On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 6:41 AM, Brett Worth brett@worth.id.au wrote:
Jason Taylor wrote: When you connect to the Centos server from your remote console you said before that you're using ssh. Is this from another Linux system? You need to ensure that you have access to your local graphical interface from the remote server i.e. that you have a valid DISPLAY variable set. If "echo $DISPLAY" returns an empty string then maybe you just need to do "ssh -X centos_server" when connecting so that ssh will forward the X11 back to your display. Then virt-manager should work.
Sometimes ssh -Y works when ssh -X doesn't. Over time I've started using ssh -Y as it always works.
If the server is setup correctly, it will not allow you to ssh as root, you'll need to ssh -Y as yourself and then su -. When you use the su command you might loose the DISPLAY variable, in this case simply re-establish it and all should work.
If you workstation is Linux, you have an X-Display running. If it is Windows, you can use Cygwin as your X-Server.
Brett