Kevin, Sorry for top posting - my phone makes it awkward.
I hadn't thought of running a Windows vm. Do you think that would work as a vm on the server with a connection via RDP? Disappointing that the tools are so Windows-centric. Happy to consider Xen - is that harder to deploy though? Thanks, Peter. -original message- Subject: Re: Managing ESXi from FreeBSD... From: Kevin Wilcox <kevin.wil...@gmail.com> Date: 23/01/2011 22:46 On 23 January 2011 17:41, Peter Harrison <peter.piggy...@virgin.net> wrote: > I don't want to be stuck using Windows to manage this machine though. What > are my options for managing this machine and the VM's from my FreeBSD laptop? > I've enable ssh access, but can I control all the VM's this way? Is there a > command line or X-Windows option for remotely management? I don't have SSH access to our ESX servers at work but I do have vSphere access. I've found that the easiest thing for me to do is to just keep a Windows VM via VirtualBox. Sadly, it looks like XenServer has the same issue - the really nice GUI is basically Windows only. At least Xen still has a rich CLI option, my understanding is that as VMWare does away with the console, they're going GUI/Windows-management only. kmw _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
