diff --git a/attributes/default.rb b/attributes/default.rb
index 3f37166..41ba2be 100644
--- a/attributes/default.rb
+++ b/attributes/default.rb
@@ -16,6 +16,12 @@
 case node.platform
 when 'suse'
   default[:pacemaker][:platform][:packages] = %w(pacemaker)
+
+  # pacemaker-mgmt-client provides hb_gui, which it's useful
+  # to run over ssh.
+  default[:pacemaker][:platform][:packages] += %w(
+    pacemaker-mgmt-client xorg-x11-xauth
+  )
 else
   Chef::Application.fatal! "FIXME: #{node.platform} platform not supported yet"
   return
diff --git a/recipes/setup.rb b/recipes/setup.rb
index 3351e81..1e9ba39 100644
--- a/recipes/setup.rb
+++ b/recipes/setup.rb
@@ -45,3 +45,13 @@ if platform_family? "rhel"
     notifies :restart, "service[clvm]", :immediately
   end
 end
+
+# required to run hb_gui
+if platform_family? "suse"
+  cmd = "SuSEconfig --module gtk2"
+  execute cmd do
+    user "root"
+    command cmd
+    not_if { File.exists? "/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf64.loaders" }
+  end
+end