It does give you access to open a console. You may have to install a browser plugin and/or java, but you can open your virtual machines console with nothing more than a web browser. I used VMWare Server for years this way. Our VMWare Server didn't even run a GUI.
Chris On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Steven S. Critchfield <cri...@basesys.com>wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > > The free VMWare Server simply runs a web server on your Linux machine > > and you don't need graphical access to the server at all, you just > > need access > > to the appropriate ports from a remote machine. > > You might want to look deeper into that. While the webserver that VMware > installs gives you access to some of the admin functions related to power, > suspend, reset, and configuration, the webserver itself does not give the > console access. It is actually the same thing that has been around in all > the server versions of the software. It runs on a different port and is > available with the older tools too. Not recommended to use the older tools > but it is possible. > > -- > Steven Critchfield cri...@basesys.com > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<nlug-talk%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
