Thanks for the response. I think for managing the VM's I'm happy to RDP in for now. What I wanted was to connect to my attacking VM from my Mac using Firefox. What I may now do is to install my attacking VM onto my Mac with Fusion and just VPN into the lab.
On 25 Feb 2010, at 07:02, Matt Erasmus wrote: > Good morning.. > > I just used to ssh to the Vmware server and run the "vmware" binary.. > > ssh -CY x.x.x.x "vmware" > > This method assumes a few things: > > 1. You have the X11 environment installed on OS X. I believe this is > default in Snow Leopard. > > 2. You're running some form of Linux as your host OS. > > 3. You're running Vmware server rather than work station etc... > > It can be a little buggy / painful to work with. I actually generally > use either a Windows / Linux desktop running in Vmware Fusion to do > this sort of thing. It's an option for me simply because I generally > have at least one VM running constantly. > > > Just my 0.02c worth... > > On 23 February 2010 23:16, k41zen <[email protected]> wrote: >> I've finally built my hack lab, inspired by the latest podcasts discussing >> it, only to find that accessing it from the Mac is a bitch. >> >> The VMware Server remote console plugin doesn't work with later versions of >> Firefox for the Mac. Some people appear to have installed Fusion on the Mac >> and access them from either a Linux/M$ OS but this just feels wrong. I >> suppose I could RDP into the server and use them that way but that seems >> crap. >> >> So I was wondering how people with Mac's access their VM's in their lab or >> if anyone has gotten the remote console plugin working on their Mac somehow. > > > - Matt > _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
