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I current am trying to connect to a hyper visor server with virt-manager on a windows computer. The host is currently setup to run only as a TTY base server. And from my research, I've only read to use PuTTY and Xming and have virt-manager to run over SSH. Witch has horrible latency.

My question is how can i install cygwin and use virt-manager with little hassle.

As of so far, I had installed cygwin and a ton of X.org components, but I get a "failed to connect to display" I had tried one link and got the virt-manager to launch, but as soon as i try to connect to the system with QEMU+SSH, it crashes with no error to print.

weezle1234
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When setting up Cygwin don't just install "everything" you can install via "groups" which will install required dependencies.

You need to install the following packages:

virt-manager, xinit and openssh

Configure SSH Passwordless Login via RSA in the Cygwin Terminal and then test launching Virt-Manager. Then you can look into creating a shortcut as I did.

I did create a youtube video as well. Please see this question for more details.

https://serverfault.com/questions/340949/is-there-a-way-to-run-virt-manager-on-windows

FreeSoftwareServers
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for the err msg "failed to connect to display", should execute:export DISPLAY="localhost:0.0" then rerun virt-manager.

ps: if you donot want execute 'export balabala' everytime when start cygwin console, added line export DISPLAY="localhost:0.0" in ~/.bashrc

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