On 02/07/2011 01:15 PM, "Jérôme M. Berger" wrote:
That's what I'm doing. I have Arch on my laptop (as the host running > kdemod3) and I have virtualbox running with Arch installed in that (as > the guest with fluxbox) to build Trinity in. It's all running on my > laptop so it should all be the host X server. Am I missing something?? >Yes, you are missing something: from what you are describing the guest applications are running on the*guest* X server (the fact that it is in turn running inside a virtual machine which runs on the host server is irrelevant). You should make them run on the host X server instead: - Do not start an X server on the guest (whether with fluxbox or any other wm); - Run “export DISPLAY=192.168.x.x:0” in the guest console (replace with the host IP address); - Then run a terminal (xterm, urxvt or whatever) from the guest console. This should open a new window in the*host* environment (i.e in kdemod3), with the terminal actually running in the*guest* environment. You might need to play with “xauth” to authorize the guest to connect on the host.
Thank you Jerome, I was missing the big picture. I'll give it a go and report back! -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E.
