On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 9:49 AM, skull <skull17 at gmx.ch> wrote: > How does one use X forwarding properly? > ... > > Anything else there is to do? > When i try to: > ssh -X root at server virt-manager > > Just to be sure, you are in an xterm with DISPLAY set to the local X-Server before issuing the ssh? Try substitute -Y for -X, like: ssh -Y root at server When you are logged in to the server, what is DISPLAY set to?