On the same thought, If you have a dead GUI locally or unable to access the VMware web interface, does anyone know if Webmin supports managing Vmware. If the web interface for webmin is working, maybe you connect to the host remotely and restart VMWare or it's instances in that manner. It would provide a backup to accessing the server.
Paul ________________________________ From: ninurta2005 <ninurta2...@yahoo.com> To: Jim Gasek <j...@gasek.net>; Jerry Feldman <g...@blu.org> Cc: discuss@blu.org Sent: Wed, January 19, 2011 3:34:42 PM Subject: Re: VMWare server question staring a VM from the Host OS (Linux) command line I check with some of the folks I work with for a solution. We have a instance of VMWare on Ubuntu. He said the following when I asked the same question as you. "Not that I’m aware of. When a VM is running under linux it will lock the image in /etc/init.d/ to prevent any data loss and security concerns. VMware recommends that if need to you should restart the VM using the web management console. " Hope this helps. Paul ________________________________ From: Jim Gasek <j...@gasek.net> To: Jerry Feldman <g...@blu.org> Cc: discuss@blu.org Sent: Wed, January 19, 2011 2:26:21 PM Subject: Re: VMWare server question staring a VM from the Host OS (Linux) command line What do u mean "The server GUI"? The console on the actual server itself? The GUI front end from the actual VM server is very limited. I don't believe you can "break out" into a "shell". If your server screen "goes dark" (?), the usual way that you connect to everything is vsphere client, and all the powerful stuff happens from the client sending messages to the server. The server isn't meant to be a console. The console is from elsewhere over the network. Thanks, Jim Gasek --- g...@blu.org wrote: From: Jerry Feldman <g...@blu.org> To: Boston Linux and Unix <discuss@blu.org> Subject: VMWare server question staring a VM from the Host OS (Linux) command line Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:17:20 -0500 We are running VMWare server for the time being until we get our dedicated system. This morning we had trouble bring up the server GUI requiring us to shutdown all VMs that were running, and simply restart vmware (service vmware restart). My question is how does one start a VM directly from the command line. I saw some documentation that referenced vmware-cmd, but we don't have that installed. The issue for us is that we do have one VM that provides some services, and whoever is using those services has to shut down so we can stop vmware and restart it which is what I just did. Unfortunately there is a known bug so we can't use firefox. The website is https://hostname:8333/ui/. So, even if the UI is not working I'd like to be able to manually start and stop a VM from the command line. -- Jerry Feldman <g...@blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
