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I have a VM with RHEL 5 without an X server. My host has Windows 7.

I need to connect to the VM and redirect the X11 output of the commands to my host.

I know that if my host were a GNU/Linux machine it would be as easy as ssh -X .

I'm ussing PuTTy to connect by SSH to the VM, I tried enabling X11 forward option in PuTTy config, but nothing happened.

Have you ever done this? I'm quite advanced with GNU/Linux, but a newbie with this toy of Winbug$ 7.

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if you've enabled putty's X11-forwarding option, you're halfway there. that's all you need on the PuTTY side; RHEL is good to go; now you need an X server to display to. (Windows is not an X-server.) Cygwin and Xming both provide free x-servers for Windows, but i don't know how well they work on Win-7. there are commercial options as well. – quack quixote Mar 14 '10 at 16:40
"I have a VM with RHEL 5 without an X server." you need an xserver of some sort to forward x. – Journeyman Geek Mar 15 '10 at 3:21
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You need a X server on your windows workstation. I prefer and regularly use Xming on my Windows 7 system. You need your SSH server to have the X11Forwarding yes set in the sshd_config.

In putty all you should have to do check the Enable X11 forewarding box under Connections\SSH\X11 in your putty connection.

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