It will give you true console access by way of a "remote console plugin". But, though I have not really tried it, it also supports (through manual setup) guest VM console access using VNC protocol. The remote console plugin works pretty good though and you can create "shortcuts" to launch the plugin to a given guest VM right from the desktop without having to go through the web interface. One thing I particularly like about the remote console plugin with windows guests is that, once you setup Vmware Tools on the windows guest, the remote console will dynamically resize the guest VM "console desktop" to whatever dimension you grow or shrink the remote console window. There is a remote console plugin for linux desktops as well (under firefox). A linux guest's desktop, though, does not seem to dynamically resize the same way a windows guest's does. Still, handy stuff. Note that Vmware server appears to be on a sunset track though. With newer versions of linux, vmware server will probably continued to gradually have operational problems as VMware is no longer updating it to keep pace with linux and windows changes on the host end. Getting VMware server to run under Windows 7 (64bit in my case) was touch-n-go and, while I got it to mostly work, it is quirky. Shame really.
________________________________________________________ Mark J. Bailey Jobsoft Design & Development, Inc. 104 Arlington Place, Suite 100 Franklin, TN 37064 EMAIL: m...@jobsoft.com WEB: http://www.jobsoft.com/ VOICE:(615)904-9559 FAX:(615)904-9576 CELL:(615)308-9099 -----Original Message----- From: nlug-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:nlug-talk@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Steven S. Critchfield Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 10:45 AM To: nlug-talk@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [nlug] VMWare on Linux Running through VNC ----- Original Message ----- > The free VMWare Server simply runs a web server on your Linux machine > and you don't need graphical access to the server at all, you just > need access to the appropriate ports from a remote machine. You might want to look deeper into that. While the webserver that VMware installs gives you access to some of the admin functions related to power, suspend, reset, and configuration, the webserver itself does not give the console access. It is actually the same thing that has been around in all the server versions of the software. It runs on a different port and is available with the older tools too. Not recommended to use the older tools but it is possible. -- Steven Critchfield cri...@basesys.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
