Friday, April 15, 2011

Accessing VMWare Server 2 with native remote console

  1. Install the firefox plugin via the "console" tab in the webaccess
  2. go to the plugin directory, e.g. /home/chris/.mozilla/firefox/3oj121wq1.default/extensions/VMwareVMRC@vmware.com/plugins
  3. you can run  ./vmware-vmrc -h from here to get the connection dialog that lets you connect to your vmware server
  4. in the field host-name, type in your server-name or ip-address followed by :8333, e.g. server.example.com:8333
  5. Enter your credentials and connect - you'll get a list of the registered vms which you can manage from here
vmware remote console

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