I am running selenium through Xvfb on display number :99 like this:
/usr/bin/Xvfb :99 -ac -screen 0 1024x768x8 & export DISPLAY=\":99\" &&
You can get a live view by running a VNC server against the Xvfb display, like this:
x11vnc -display :99 -localhost & vncviewer :0