On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 6:41 AM, Brett Worth <brett at 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