Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:25:08 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Jeronimo Calvo <jeronimocalvop@googlemail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: VirtualBox not opening... from 7.2 STABLE, (GUI KDE 3.5) Message-ID: <20090910102508.f7aac2f1.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <beaf3aa50909091010s1b8fd965u8b463f9a3cb7cf8d@mail.gmail.com> References: <beaf3aa50909091010s1b8fd965u8b463f9a3cb7cf8d@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 17:10:11 +0000, Jeronimo Calvo <jeronimocalvop@googlemail.com> wrote: > But I am getting following error when launched from the terminal: > > > # VirtualBox > > No protocol specified > > Failed to open the X11 display! Of course. You are trying to write to the X display as root, but the display belongs to !root (non-root user, i. e. you). There's a quick, but very unelegant way to solve this problem: # setenv DISPLAY :0.0 # VirtualBox The program should then run. If your root shell is a different one than the standard C shell, have a look at its manpage about how to modify environment variables. You need DISPLAY to point at the local device, which is :0.0 in this case. There are better ways, such as using xauth. > When used the Icon created on System>VirtualBox (Using KDE 3.5) > [...] > Seems to open for few secs... and suddenly disappears... Maybe it has to be run as root? In general, it's not a good idea to run X applications as root. > Any ideas? I can only provide some quite generic advices, because I never used VirtualBox. :-( -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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