On 2016-03-18 20:21, David C. Rankin wrote: > 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. > If you only want to run individual applications, you can use the -X switch of ssh and then simply execute the respective applications as you would normally. Note that this requires the ssh-session being opened in a local graphical terminal. If you however want to have a full graphical environment, you will have to use VNC or something comparable, or so I think.
