From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 29 15:19:09 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 724CCF53 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2015 15:19:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fly.hiwaay.net (fly.hiwaay.net [216.180.54.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3A2FD92B for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2015 15:19:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from kabini1.local (rbn1-216-180-76-159.adsl.hiwaay.net [216.180.76.159]) (authenticated bits=0) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id t0TFJ63A020043 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2015 09:19:07 -0600 Message-ID: <54CA50E1.2060607@hiwaay.net> Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 09:25:21 -0600 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "FreeBSD Questions !!!!" Subject: Re: Is QEMU working/reliable under .... References: <54C7C62A.5030605@hiwaay.net> <20150127210422.GA27921@slackbox.erewhon.home> <54C838CE.7040502@hiwaay.net> <20150128071441.GA29698@slackbox.erewhon.home> <54C8EFF3.6050803@hiwaay.net> <54C8FB09.5030305@cyberleo.net> <54C90E98.3080304@hiwaay.net> <54C9B188.2050808@cyberleo.net> In-Reply-To: <54C9B188.2050808@cyberleo.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 15:19:09 -0000 On 01/28/15 22:05, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: > On 01/28/2015 10:30 AM, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > >> [root@kabini1, WinXP, 10:21:44am] 503 % qemu-system-i386 -cdrom >> ../../../ISOs/winxp.iso -hda HDD.img -m 256 -boot d -cpu athlon -vga std >> -no-acpi -localtime >> Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key >> (:20227): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0 >> [root@kabini1, WinXP, 10:21:48am] 504 % >> >> I am logged into root via 'su' from my regular user, rxvt-2.6.4_6 >> terminal window, system tcsh, xfce-4.10_7 desktop, >> xorg-server-1.14.7_1,1, FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE-p5 .... The su process >> doesn't get the graphics environment set correctly for root, I see this >> a lot :-/ .... What do I need to do to get the GUI to display for me ? >> TIA & thanks for your reply. > Either authorize root by running this, as the user logged into X: > > xhost +si:localuser:root > > or copy the xauth cookie into root's account using something like the > following: > > sh -c 'xauth list "${DISPLAY}" | sed -e "s/^/add /" | sudo xauth' > > But I suppose a better question is: why are you running qemu as root? > Someone else already pointed out that running qemu as root is unnecessary :-). I suppose my answer would be 'out of ignorance' (I *think* I recall you had to do that under FC14, the last time I used it there was several years back). In any event, I copied the .Xauthority from my $USER to /root & all went well. I have the VM (guest) setup & can boot it from $USER (Hooray, couldn't do that under FC14), so I am relatively happy. The guest can't see the host, which is a problem, my read of the man page & the qemu help output implies that I can fix this on the fly w/ a combination of more args to qemu &/or host configuration. I will be back w/ questions there if needed, but I seem to be OK for now. Thanks to all who assisted :-) !!!! -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.