Jerry Feldman <g...@blu.org> writes:
> On 01/19/2011 02:26 PM, Jim Gasek wrote:
>> What do u mean "The server GUI"? The console on the actual
>> server itself? The GUI front end from the actual VM server
>> is very limited. I don't believe you can "break out"
>> into a "shell". If your server screen "goes dark" (?), the
>> usual way that you connect to everything is vsphere client,
>> and all the powerful stuff happens from the client
>> sending messages to the server. The server isn't
>> meant to be a console. The console is from elsewhere
>> over the network.
> We are using VMWare server for the time being. The system we will be
> getting is a vsphere system. What I am talking about is the web
> interface client:
> https://<hostname>:8333/ui/
> For some reason it does not connect to the running vmware server on
> <host>. This seems to be related to MSIE and certificates, not
> specifically VMWare. Yesterday I had a need to power on a VM, but I was
There is certainly a known issue with Firefox 3.6 (3.5 works).
I'm surprised that MSIE has issues. Maybe you just need to get MSIE to
accept the self-signed certificate?
> not able to connect to the UI, but I did not want to have to restart
> vmware on the host. I was eventually able to get it up so I could power
> on the VM. All the VMs are configured so I can easily log in via ssh
> when it is running, so the issue is strictly how can I "power on" a VM
> from the Linux command line on <host>. I saw reference to vmware-cmd,
> but that is not installed.
-derek
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