Hi,
I'm new to VMWare.
I want to be able to run X (graphics software) on the vmware console for a virutal machine
running Redhat 5.8.
I am using ESXi 4.
There is the getty process which presumeably is used for the command line prompt on the console.
There is very little on the internet about X on the console.
Questions
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1. Is it possible to run X on the console?
2. I think that you need some vmware tools so achieve this. Is this correct?
3. I suppose that you need the X server and X client software to be installed within Redhat.
Is this correct?
4. When you are ready to run the X client I guess you need to set:
export DISPLAY=<IP adress of VM box>:0.0
xhosts +
Is this correct?
5. What is happening is the user wants to run an X installer and wants to run this on the console
instead of an ssh connection with X on the pc. The reason why the pc solution won't work is that
the ssh connection times out after 5 hours of inactivity. Is there a better to run this rather than
using X on the console
Thanks for any help.
