Installing GUI/Desktop manager on textonly openSUSE Leap 42.1

Good day all,

I am working on a textonly openSUSE Leap 42.1 server. That part works find.

I have been spending quote a bit of time trying to install (and get running) a GUi desktop environment on top of it, with no successful results at this point.

I have been trying to connect to my server both with Remote Desktop as well as a VNCviewer, in no avail.

The server is a VM running on ESXI 5.5

So far, I have tried the following

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I would like to include my log files but there does not seem to be any means to upload those and attach them to this post.

Thanks so very much in advance for your help,

running openSUSE Leap 42.1 on a VMware ESXi 5.5 VM

Did you first install the relevant desktop pattern?

You can check installed patterns with

zypper se -si patterns-*

If you want to install Gnome, you can install the pattern using

zypper in patterns-openSUSE-gnome