loose ESucksXi and install XCP 1.0 and for management xencenter / openxencenter will run on FreeBSD,
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Peter Harrison <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> > Date: 23/01/2011 22:46 > > On 23 January 2011 17:41, Peter Harrison <[email protected]> > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > [email protected]" > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
