Re: [CentOS] vmware-server-console not installed

2010-04-28 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/26/2010 1:01 PM, Rainer Duffner wrote: There's the glibc issue that's still unresolved. There's another issue with using Firefox as the admin client. It *might* let you in, but the console plugin doesn't appear to be working again. Only client that works for me is InternetExploder. I

Re: [CentOS] vmware-server-console not installed

2010-04-28 Thread JohnS
On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 12:39 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: Running the VMware converter tool from an old Dell Win2k server with an IDE disk to produce an ESXi image went through the motions but the image wouldn't boot - but doing the same thing to a vmware server (v1) image file over a

Re: [CentOS] vmware-server-console not installed

2010-04-28 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Running the VMware converter tool from an old Dell Win2k server with an IDE disk to produce an ESXi image went through the motions but the image wouldn't boot - but doing the same thing to a vmware server (v1) image file over a network share worked. Has anyone seen that before? Never used

Re: [CentOS] vmware-server-console not installed

2010-04-28 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/28/2010 12:55 PM, JohnS wrote: On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 12:39 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: Running the VMware converter tool from an old Dell Win2k server with an IDE disk to produce an ESXi image went through the motions but the image wouldn't boot - but doing the same thing to a vmware

Re: [CentOS] vmware-server-console not installed

2010-04-28 Thread JohnS
On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 13:17 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: On 4/28/2010 12:55 PM, JohnS wrote: On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 12:39 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: Running the VMware converter tool from an old Dell Win2k server with an IDE disk to produce an ESXi image went through the motions but the

Re: [CentOS] vmware-server-console not installed

2010-04-28 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/28/2010 1:16 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: Running the VMware converter tool from an old Dell Win2k server with an IDE disk to produce an ESXi image went through the motions but the image wouldn't boot - but doing the same thing to a vmware server (v1) image file over a network share

Re: [CentOS] vmware-server-console not installed

2010-04-28 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/28/2010 1:28 PM, JohnS wrote: Running the VMware converter tool from an old Dell Win2k server with an IDE disk to produce an ESXi image went through the motions but the image wouldn't boot - but doing the same thing to a vmware server (v1) image file over a network share worked. Has

Re: [CentOS] vmware-server-console not installed

2010-04-27 Thread Agnello George
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Dan Irwin d...@jackies.com.au wrote: You don't need to downgrade for the whole OS, you can just do it for VMware. See the procedure in the first comment in this bug http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3884. I have done that and it works fine. Just remember

Re: [CentOS] vmware-server-console not installed

2010-04-27 Thread rainer
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Dan Irwin d...@jackies.com.au wrote: so many replies ... so my best option is to install VMware-server-1 ??? - Doesn't work on RHEL5 (only RHEL4u3 or u4?) - supported guest-OSs: similarly ancient If it's a server, I'd go for ESX4i right away (if the

Re: [CentOS] vmware-server-console not installed

2010-04-27 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 8:18 PM, John Thomas gmane-2006-04...@jt-socal.com wrote: Agnello George wrote: I had installed the vmware server ( VMware-server-2.0.1-156745.i386 ) on my CentOS 5 box how ever i am not able to  to find the command vmware-server-console . Do i need to install that RPM

Re: [CentOS] vmware-server-console not installed

2010-04-27 Thread Les Mikesell
rai...@ultra-secure.de wrote: On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Dan Irwin d...@jackies.com.au wrote: so many replies ... so my best option is to install VMware-server-1 ??? - Doesn't work on RHEL5 (only RHEL4u3 or u4?) - supported guest-OSs: similarly ancient I have some

Re: [CentOS] vmware-server-console not installed

2010-04-27 Thread Gary Greene
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Brian Mathis Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 7:06 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] vmware-server-console not installed On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Gary Greene ggre

Re: [CentOS] vmware-server-console not installed

2010-04-27 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/27/2010 10:29 AM, Gary Greene wrote: You don't need to downgrade for the whole OS, you can just do it for VMware. See the procedure in the first comment in this bug http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3884. I have done that and it works fine. Just remember that if you update vmware,

Re: [CentOS] vmware-server-console not installed

2010-04-27 Thread Benjamin Franz
Les Mikesell wrote: Does anyone else think it is extremely strange that Red Hat introduced an incompatible base library change late in the life of their enterprise OS? Or that VMware hasn't followed with a matching change in subsequent updates? I don't get it VMware appears to be

Re: [CentOS] vmware-server-console not installed

2010-04-27 Thread Brian Mathis
-server-console not installed [...] You don't need to downgrade for the whole OS, you can just do it for VMware.  See the procedure in the first comment in this bug http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3884.  I have done that and it works fine.  Just remember that if you update vmware, the edits

Re: [CentOS] vmware-server-console not installed

2010-04-27 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/27/2010 11:51 AM, Benjamin Franz wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: Does anyone else think it is extremely strange that Red Hat introduced an incompatible base library change late in the life of their enterprise OS? Or that VMware hasn't followed with a matching change in subsequent updates? I

Re: [CentOS] vmware-server-console not installed

2010-04-27 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Benjamin Franz jfr...@freerun.com wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: Does anyone else think it is extremely strange that Red Hat introduced an incompatible base library change late in the life of their enterprise OS?  Or that VMware hasn't followed with a matching

Re: [CentOS] vmware-server-console not installed

2010-04-27 Thread Gary Greene
7:06 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] vmware-server-console not installed [...] You don't need to downgrade for the whole OS, you can just do it for VMware.  See the procedure in the first comment in this bug http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3884.  I have done

Re: [CentOS] vmware-server-console not installed

2010-04-27 Thread Benjamin Franz
Brian Mathis wrote: On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Benjamin Franz jfr...@freerun.com wrote: VMware appears to be intentionally slow-motion killing their VMware Server product in favor of ESX/ESXi. They declined to publish needed security updates for Server in the latest round and if you

Re: [CentOS] vmware-server-console not installed

2010-04-27 Thread Scott Silva
on 4-27-2010 8:46 AM Les Mikesell spake the following: On 4/27/2010 10:29 AM, Gary Greene wrote: You don't need to downgrade for the whole OS, you can just do it for VMware. See the procedure in the first comment in this bug http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3884. I have done that and it

Re: [CentOS] vmware-server-console not installed

2010-04-27 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/27/2010 2:48 PM, Scott Silva wrote: You don't need to downgrade for the whole OS, you can just do it for VMware. See the procedure in the first comment in this bug http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3884. I have done that and it works fine. Just remember that if you update vmware,

[CentOS] vmware-server-console not installed

2010-04-26 Thread Agnello George
I had installed the vmware server ( VMware-server-2.0.1-156745.i386 ) on my CentOS 5 box how ever i am not able to to find the command vmware-server-console . Do i need to install that RPM separately . Thanks -- Regards Agnello D'souza ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] vmware-server-console not installed

2010-04-26 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 26.04.2010 um 19:36 schrieb Agnello George: I had installed the vmware server ( VMware- server-2.0.1-156745.i386 ) on my CentOS 5 box how ever i am not able to to find the command vmware-server-console . Do i need to install that RPM separately . v2.0 uses a servlet running on an

Re: [CentOS] vmware-server-console not installed

2010-04-26 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/26/2010 12:36 PM, Agnello George wrote: I had installed the vmware server ( VMware-server-2.0.1-156745.i386 ) on my CentOS 5 box how ever i am not able to to find the command vmware-server-console . Do i need to install that RPM separately . The 2.x server doesn't have a separate console

Re: [CentOS] vmware-server-console not installed

2010-04-26 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On 4/26/2010 12:36 PM, Agnello George wrote: I had installed the vmware server ( VMware-server-2.0.1-156745.i386 ) on my CentOS 5 box how ever i am not able to  to find the command vmware-server-console . Do i need to

Re: [CentOS] vmware-server-console not installed

2010-04-26 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 26.04.2010 um 19:52 schrieb Kwan Lowe: On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On 4/26/2010 12:36 PM, Agnello George wrote: I had installed the vmware server ( VMware- server-2.0.1-156745.i386 ) on my CentOS 5 box how ever i am not able to to find

Re: [CentOS] vmware-server-console not installed

2010-04-26 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/26/2010 1:01 PM, Rainer Duffner wrote: I switched to ESX4i and use a Windows VM with VI-Client to manage it - there's no other way to do it, unfortunately. For something that works on Windows exclusively (Dot-Net...), it's horribly slow and buggy. I don't see how a Java-solution would

Re: [CentOS] vmware-server-console not installed

2010-04-26 Thread Dan Irwin
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Kwan Lowe Sent: Tuesday, 27 April 2010 3:52 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] vmware-server-console not installed There's the glibc issue that's still unresolved. There's

Re: [CentOS] vmware-server-console not installed

2010-04-26 Thread Gary Greene
On 4/26/10 4:57 PM, Dan Irwin d...@jackies.com.au wrote: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Kwan Lowe Sent: Tuesday, 27 April 2010 3:52 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] vmware-server-console

Re: [CentOS] vmware-server-console not installed

2010-04-26 Thread John Thomas
Agnello George wrote: I had installed the vmware server ( VMware-server-2.0.1-156745.i386 ) on my CentOS 5 box how ever i am not able to to find the command vmware-server-console . Do i need to install that RPM separately . The console app is a Firefox plugin, but I extract the app and run it

Re: [CentOS] vmware-server-console not installed

2010-04-26 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 7:57 PM, Dan Irwin d...@jackies.com.au wrote: So that's why the management interfaces from vmware 2 appear to keep crashing! Also, the console plugin seems to work fine in Firefox on Fedora 12, for me anyway. Firefox 3.5.x appears to be working. F3.6.x has some

Re: [CentOS] vmware-server-console not installed

2010-04-26 Thread Brian Mathis
To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] vmware-server-console not installed There's the glibc issue that's still unresolved.  There's another issue with using Firefox as the admin client. It *might* let you in, but the console plugin doesn't appear to be working again. Only client

Re: [CentOS] vmware-server-console not installed

2010-04-26 Thread Dan Irwin
From memory, here is how you do that: 1. Get a copy of vmware-vmrc-linux-x86.xpi (mine was in /usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/webapps/u i/plugin/vmware-vmrc-linux-x86.xpi) 2. Rename the file to vmware-vmrc-linux-x86.xpi.zip 3. Unzip the file Now run vmware-vmrc

Re: [CentOS] vmware-server-console not installed

2010-04-26 Thread Dan Irwin
You don't need to downgrade for the whole OS, you can just do it for VMware. See the procedure in the first comment in this bug http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3884. I have done that and it works fine. Just remember that if you update vmware, the edits to vmware-hostd will be undone, so you