How to view .png file on Linux VM (Fedora/RHEL) running on Windows 7 host?

Question

I want to open .png file on my VirtualBox Fedora VM running on Windows 7 host? Is there a way to view the file using command line?

Note: I have tried display ####.png as well as less ####.png. Installed ImageMagick and have libpng version 1.5.9 successfully installed over my VM.

Below is the error message for display

[hue@sandbox ~]$ display -size 1280x1024 -window root ####.png display: unable to open X server `' @ error/display.c/DisplayImageCommand/424.

Answer 1

For this approach to work, you need to have a windowing environment to render the image in.

You can either:

• run an X server in the virtual machine or
• run an X server on Windows, then SSH from Windows to the VM (with X tunnelling enabled) before running display

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Alternatively, share the file over the network (e.g. use VMWare's shared file systems, or run Samba or use an HTTP server) and view the image using a Windows image viewer.

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Alternatively, convert the image to ASCII Art so it can be displayed on a console.