How Do I Get My X Display Working?

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Biscuit
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How Do I Get My X Display Working?

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I've got a Solaris 11.1 guest running...

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gary@frosty:~$ cat /etc/release
Oracle Solaris 11.1 X86
Copyright (c) 1983, 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Assembled 19 September 2012
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... and everything for the most part works OK, but I seem to be unable to open an X display locally. For instance...

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gary@frosty:~$ export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
gary@frosty:~$ xhost +
xhost: unable to open display "localhost:0.0"
gary@frosty:~$
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... and /etc/hosts is defined as...

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gary@frosty:~$ cat /etc/hosts
#
# Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
# Use is subject to license terms.
#
# Internet host table
#
::1 frosty localhost
127.0.0.1 frosty localhost loghost
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To preempt what I suspect will be suggested solutions, I've also tried replacing "localhost" with both "127.0.0.1" and "frosty" but hit the same problem.

What gives?

- Gary
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