All, When I ended up with a hand-me-down supermicro server from a local ISP, I decided to try virtualizing all my hosts. The company I got this from recommended vmware ESXI as the hypervisor. It was a pleasant surprise to find that ESXI is a basic Linux system. (albeit a very limited and quirky setup). I've installed Arch as the first vm, assigning 8-cores and 16G of RAM. It is up and running fine. (it is installed on a raid1 array volume from a LSI controller which exists as a single datastore in esxi -- if that makes any difference) I am trying to setup fluxbox on arch so I can access the vm via rdesktop (or something similar) via a GUI on a as needed basis. I would rather not have a display manager running all the time, so I'm attempting to use the startx route. I've used the following to try and get this going: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fluxbox https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xinitrc https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/xorg https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Display_manager The configuration is good, but I'm stuck attempting to start X. X is refusing to start due to the fact I'm accessing Arch by ssh. When I try to start x, I receive the following error telling me that "Only console users are allowed": $ startx /usr/lib/xorg-server/Xorg.wrap: Only console users are allowed to run the X server xinit: giving up xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused xinit: server error Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console I understand that it wants X only to be started from the actual physical console, but when I access the vm over ssh, I don't have one. (I am starting the vm, ssh'ed into esxi with 'vim-cmd vmsvc/power.on 1', so there is no console anywhere else) What would be the best solution? Have arch boot to the graphical target loading a display manager? ... or is there some way I can simply startx as needed so I don't leave the dm running all the time on the vm? Thanks for any help you can provide. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
