Accessing your environment : X Windows

If your environment was set up with Host networking as described in these pages then the IP addresses are all in the 192.168.88.* subnet.
Your host machine (Windows or OSX) is 192.168.88.1.
Your VMs are assigned 192.168.88.10, 192.168.88.11, etc.

Run an X Windows Server on your Host

For Windows I usually install MobaXTerm.
After install:


  • run MoxaXterm
  • Settings -> Configuration
  • Click the X11 tab
  • Change the "X11 Remote Access" dropdown to "full"
  • Answer Yes to restart X11 to enable configuration change

This will allow MobaXTerm to act as an XWindow server for any machines that can contact it.

Install a test program

vagrant ssh
sudo yum install xclock

Run the test program

export DISPLAY=192.168.88.1:0

xclock The xclock analog clock program will run on the VM but it will use the graphical console on your host PC to show GUI. 
References
[OSX} Run graphical programs within vagrant boxes. 
[Windows] SSH into Vagrant with X server set up