From nobody Mon Nov 29 07:29:33 2021 X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C47E18BAB39 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2021 07:29:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) Received: from soth.netfence.it (mailserver.netfence.it [78.134.96.152]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256 client-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "mailserver.netfence.it", Issuer "R3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4J2cS86Hfzz3ChP for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2021 07:29:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) Received: from [10.1.2.18] (mailserver.netfence.it [78.134.96.152]) (authenticated bits=0) by soth.netfence.it (8.17.1/8.16.1) with ESMTPSA id 1AT7TXt9019069 (version=TLSv1.3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO); Mon, 29 Nov 2021 08:29:34 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) X-Authentication-Warning: soth.netfence.it: Host mailserver.netfence.it [78.134.96.152] claimed to be [10.1.2.18] Message-ID: <2772c126-45d1-e4c5-3907-ad53ec4c44a9@netfence.it> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 08:29:33 +0100 List-Id: User questions List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-questions List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.3.2 Subject: Re: VirtualBox Over SSH Content-Language: en-US To: Sysadmin Lists , Freebsd Questions References: <897410370.587536.1638134966961@ichabod.co-bxl> From: Andrea Venturoli In-Reply-To: <897410370.587536.1638134966961@ichabod.co-bxl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.84 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4J2cS86Hfzz3ChP X-Spamd-Bar: ---- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.00 / 15.00]; REPLY(-4.00)[] X-ThisMailContainsUnwantedMimeParts: N On 11/28/21 22:29, Sysadmin Lists wrote: > When running VirtualBox over SSH with X11-forwarding, I'm unable to start windowed virtual machines from the GUI. I've stopped using VBox (and ThunderBird, but that's another story) remotely years ago, since it simply didn't work. While I had the chance to move it to local hardware, it would be nice if it worked again. I think you should open a bug report, which will probably get more attention. bye av.