Hi guys,

I finally bit the bullet and decided to give Linux a try. Because I didn't want to install it as a secondary OS on my system (yet), I decided to give virtualisation a try first.

So I installed VirtualBox 1.5.4 on my Windows XP Pro setup, and setup up the virtual machine. Then I mounted the Linux ISO images of Suse 10.3 and started the setup. (during which I opted for KDE) That all went very smoothly. I installed the images into onto the Virtual Machine. But after the last reboot, I already ran into my first problem. KDE didn't start. the 'startKDE' command returned the following error (typing here, since I can't seem to do a screencap - I'm still in text mode) :

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xset: unable to open display ""
xset: unable to open display ""
xsetroot: unable to open display ''
startkde: Starting up...
xprop: unable to open display ''
usage: xprop [-options ...] [[format [dformat]] atom] ...

where options include:
-grammar
-display host:dpy
-id id
-name name
-font name
-remove propname
-set propname value
-root
-len n
-notype
-fs filename
-frame
-f propname format [dformat]
-spy

kdeinit: Aborting. $DISPLAY is not set.
Warning: connect () failed: : No such file or directory
ksmserver cannot connect to X server
ERROR: Coun't attacg to DCOP server!
startkde: Shutting down...
Warning: connect() failed: No such file or directory
Error: Can't contact kdeinit!
startkde: Running shutdown scripts...
xprop: unable to open display ''
usage: xprop [-options ...][format [dformat]] atom]...

where options included:
-grammar
-display host:dpy
-id id
-name name
-font name
-remove propname
-set propname value
-root
-len n
-notype
-fs filename
-frame
-f propname format [dformat]
-spy
startkde: Done.
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Anybody any idea how to solve this? (or what is wrong for that matter?) Cheers!