I have been developing a system using Vagrant. I can ssh to the machine and interact with the system through the iex in the console. However I would like to be able to use tools with a GUI. I was hoping it would just be a case of enabling X-forwarding but I have not been able to make it work. These…

[image] Crowdhailer: [error] WX ERROR: SMP emulator required (start with erl -smp) Uhh, that is unexpected, your erlang build does not start in smp mode, is it built with it at all?

Instead of trying to run observer on the remote node I would highly recommend just having a local computer remote session into the remote node. Then you can run observer locally and you’re good to go.

So I never got this working. @benwilson512 thanks for your suggestion and that definitely would work, however for my purposes I’m trying to avoid having elixir/erlang installed on the host.

What do you mean on the host? I was referring to your development computer.

[image] Crowdhailer: So I never got this working. Did you try starting your shell with ELIXIR_ERL_OPTIONS="-smp enable" iex?

Yes that worked as long as I also included in my Vagrantfile. config.ssh.forward_x11 = true

Inspect a remote system with observer

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OvermindDL1 September 21, 2016, 5:23pm 2

Uhh, that is unexpected, your erlang build does not start in smp mode, is it built with it at all?