Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of VmwareRemoteConsoleFx36

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May 27, 2010 3:43:30 AM (16 years ago)

Author:

iva

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VmwareRemoteConsoleFx36

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+== VMware Remote Console on EL 4, EL 5 ==
+
+When using VMware Server 2.0 on a CentOS host, one used to be able to connect to a virtual machine's console via VMware Remote Console Plug-in for Firefox. That is, while CentOS used to be equipped with Firefox 3.0. (See Also: http://www.vmwareforum.org/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1222353993) In June, 2010, web browsers in RHEL 4 and RHEL 5 were upgraded to Firefox 3.6.4, and the plug-in ceased to load properly. 
+
+One can use the VMware Remote Console Plug-in as a stand-alone application though.
+
+* Locate the XPI file that corresponds to your operating system architecture.
+
+{{{
+$ rpm -q VMware-server
+VMware-server-2.0.2-203138
+$ rpm -ql VMware-server |grep vmrc
+/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/webapps/ui/plugin/vmware-vmrc-linux-x64.xpi
+/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/webapps/ui/plugin/vmware-vmrc-linux-x86.xpi
+/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/webapps/ui/plugin/vmware-vmrc-win32-x86.exe
+/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/webapps/ui/plugin/vmware-vmrc-win32-x86.xpi
+$
+}}}
+
+* Uncompress the XPI archive in an appropriate directory (one listed in your PATH).
+
+{{{
+$ cd ~/bin
+$ mkdir vmware-vmrc-linux-x86
+$
+$ cd vmware-vmrc-linux-x86
+$ unzip -q /usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/webapps/ui/plugin/vmware-vmrc-linux-x86.xpi
+$ ls -log
+total 16
+drwxr-xr-x  2 4096 Oct 10  2008 components
+-rw-r--r--  1 1677 Oct 10  2008 install.js
+-rw-r--r--  1 1242 Oct 10  2008 install.rdf
+drwxr-xr-x  7 4096 Oct 10  2008 plugins
+$ cd ..
+$
+$ ln -s vmware-vmrc-linux-x86/plugins/vmware-vmrc .
+$
+}}}
+
+* Run the application first by specifying full (or relative) path.
+
+{{{
+$ ~/bin/vmware-vmrc
+Configuring libraries for first use
+Configured /home/username/bin/vmware-vmrc-linux-x86/plugins/libconf/etc/fonts/fonts.dtd
+Configured /home/username/bin/vmware-vmrc-linux-x86/plugins/libconf/etc/fonts/fonts.conf
+Configured /home/username/bin/vmware-vmrc-linux-x86/plugins/libconf/etc/fonts/local.conf
+Configured /home/username/bin/vmware-vmrc-linux-x86/plugins/libconf/etc/pango/pangorc
+Configured /home/username/bin/vmware-vmrc-linux-x86/plugins/libconf/etc/pango/pangox.aliases
+Configured /home/username/bin/vmware-vmrc-linux-x86/plugins/libconf/etc/pango/pango.modules
+Configured /home/username/bin/vmware-vmrc-linux-x86/plugins/libconf/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders
+Configured /home/username/bin/vmware-vmrc-linux-x86/plugins/libconf/etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc
+Configured /home/username/bin/vmware-vmrc-linux-x86/plugins/libconf/etc/gtk-2.0/gtk.immodules
+Configured /home/username/bin/vmware-vmrc-linux-x86/plugins/libconf/etc/gtk-2.0/Clearlooks.gtkrc
+Configuration successful
+$
+}}}
+
+{{{
+#!html
+<div align="center"><img src="/img/vmware/vmware-vmrc-1.gif" width="657" height="515"></div>
+}}}
+
+* To connect to a console of a virtual machine running on a VMware Server host use the following command.
+
+{{{
+$ vmware-vmrc -h server-hostname:8333 -u username
+}}}
+
+* When connecting to a console of a virtual machine running on a ESX host one can omit a port number.
+
+{{{
+$ vmware-vmrc -h esx-hostname -u username
+}}}