Introduction

If you use PUTTY tool to ssh into a remote host and are trying to run a graphical
tool …like say Mozilla or XClock or some Java Swing based installer that has
screens you navigate …then you need to EXPORT your DISPLAY. Lets
assume you are doing this from a Windows machine to a remote host (this
applies to a Linux/Unix machine to a remote host too – where you are using
“ssh” and a local xserver)

Get XServer on your local

(Windows) machine
I got XMING from here ….

http://transact.dl.sourceforge.net/project/xming/Xming/6.9.0.31/Xming-6-9-0-31-setup.exe

 Start a command prompt and do “ipconfig /all“ and see your IP Address

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : mycompany.com.au

Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcom NetXtreme 57xx Gigabit Controller

Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : FX-XX-...

Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes

Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : xx.xx.xx.xxx

Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . :

Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . :
 DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . :

Primary WINS Server . . . . . . . :

Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . :

Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . :

 Start a Putty Client, before you connect to your VM

 Check/Select “X11 Forwarding” in Putty (see image below)

by selecting check-box under “Category: Connection -> SSH -> X11”
in the Left-hand panel and “SSH X11 forwarding” in the Right-Hand
Panel

 Check/Select “Port Forwarding” in Putty (see image below)

by selecting check-box under “Category: Connection -> SSH ->
Tunnels” in the Left-hand panel and “SSH Port forwarding” in the
Right-Hand Panel
 Putty into your VM and set the DISPLAY variable, I did

 "export DISPLAY=<my ip address>:0"