RE: VMWare server question staring a VM from the Host OS (Linux) command line

2011-01-24 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: discuss-boun...@blu.org [discuss-boun...@blu.org] On Behalf Of Jerry Feldman [g...@blu.org] My question is how does one start a VM directly from the command line. I saw some documentation that referenced vmware-cmd, but we don't have that installed. It may be too late for this, but

Re: VMWare server question staring a VM from the Host OS (Linux) command line

2011-01-24 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 01/24/2011 02:43 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: From: discuss-boun...@blu.org [discuss-boun...@blu.org] On Behalf Of Jerry Feldman [g...@blu.org] My question is how does one start a VM directly from the command line. I saw some documentation that referenced vmware-cmd, but we don't have

RE: VMWare server question staring a VM from the Host OS (Linux) command line

2011-01-20 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: discuss-boun...@blu.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@blu.org] On Behalf Of Jerry Feldman We are running VMWare server for the time being until we get our why not vmware player or workstation? Both work in linux. Player is free. Workstation has free time limited trial. IMHO, either

Re: VMWare server question staring a VM from the Host OS (Linux) command line

2011-01-20 Thread Jerry Feldman
g...@blu.org *Cc:* discuss@blu.org *Sent:* Wed, January 19, 2011 2:26:21 PM *Subject:* Re: VMWare server question staring a VM from the Host OS (Linux) command line 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

Re: VMWare server question staring a VM from the Host OS (Linux) command line

2011-01-20 Thread Derek Atkins
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

Re: VMWare server question staring a VM from the Host OS (Linux) command line

2011-01-20 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 01/20/2011 07:50 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: I only suggested player or workstation as a temporary stopgap until you get your real server. I assumed then you'd be going to ESX or ESXi. Please tell me you're not planning to use VMWare Server instead of ESXi. Definitely ESXi or vSphere or

Re: VMWare server question staring a VM from the Host OS (Linux) command line

2011-01-19 Thread Jim Gasek
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

Re: VMWare server question staring a VM from the Host OS (Linux) command line

2011-01-19 Thread ninurta2005
19, 2011 2:26:21 PM Subject: Re: VMWare server question staring a VM from the Host OS (Linux) command line 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

Re: VMWare server question staring a VM from the Host OS (Linux) command line

2011-01-19 Thread ninurta2005
19, 2011 2:26:21 PM Subject: Re: VMWare server question staring a VM from the Host OS (Linux) command line 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