Tech: Running VMware Server console on Apple Mac OS X

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Tech: Running VMware Server console on Apple Mac OS X

Posted by Alessandro Perilli | Friday, April 07, 2006 | 4 Comments

The Tao of Mac published an how-to permitting VMware customers to run the (GSX) Server remote console on a MacOS X:

One of the biggest issues with managing VMware Server for me has always been not having a native Mac OS X remote administration client (or a Mac OS X anything, but that's another story). So, with every release, I kept trying to find a way to both see and control my virtual machine consoles by running vmware-console on the server and forwarding the X display to my Mac - which never seemed to work due to various X11 quirks - either the application bombed instantly, or there were masses of debug logging - but never a working remote console. However, after months of virtual head-banging, Chris Dagdigian e-mailed me a note saying that he had got his vmware-console running by using trusted X forwarding, and after a while I had the rest figured out - keyboard mappings and all. The following notes assume you have a Linux-based VMware Server host (running build 22088) and that you can access it over SSH from a Mac with X11 installed...

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4 Comments

Anonymous Sunday, April 09, 2006 12:43:00 AM

I'm using RDC (Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection) to connect to my virtual machines or to the host running the VMWare Console.

Of course, Terminal Services must be enabled on the vm or the host.

anonymouse Saturday, March 15, 2008 12:58:00 PM

thats great but you have windows installed. This article is helpful if you haven't yet installed an OS.

Anonymous Monday, June 02, 2008 12:57:00 PM

Thanks for this note. When my mac comes I'd have had the same problem, this saves the case.

Anonymous Wednesday, December 17, 2008 10:00:00 AM

"thats great but you have windows installed. This article is helpful if you haven't yet installed an OS. "

RDC is also available for mac os x too. you can download it at the microsoft site, just google "RDC for mac download"

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