Comments on: Running VMware Server Console on a Mac

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:36:42 +0000

So far virtual box is running as well as VMware Server, but I can actually virtualize inside osx with firefox.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:47:08 +0000

Using a virtual machine, to control a virtual machine is ridiculous in my eyes. There should be no reason to do so… Sadly we have to. I have had no luck running vmware in X11. My browser comes up, but the login doesnt show, so I cant do anything. I run XP in Parrallels and connect just fine load up the virtual machine… but its kind of silly, Running XP in MAC, to Run and XP virtual machine off a server… silly indeed.

Im going to try Sun’s Virtual Box and see if its any better.

By: skin console

skin console — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:12:52 +0000

I’m using a opensuse console mode and it works good !

By: Running vmware console in Mac OS X « Trikks

Running vmware console in Mac OS X « Trikks — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:56:40 +0000

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By: John

John — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:17:31 +0000

My server is a barebones Suse11.0 server console mode only running VMWare Server .
My main desktop is a Mac Mini. I have Vista in Bootcamp, but this takes forever to power on, even under Fusion.
My quick workaround is an XP VM workstation on my mac, installed from tinyXP. takes

By: Jeremy K.

Jeremy K. — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 19:30:33 +0000

Has anyone got the vmware-server-console compiled and running on their Mac natively? I am using Leopard 10.5.1 with MacPorts installed and can get vmware-server-console to run locally via the “ssh -Y” method. However the console keeps crashing when I try to configure the remote VM. I would love to try running the console locally instead to help (potentially) alleviate that issue.

Thanks Mark for the writeup and to Rui for the original article. Keep the Mac + VMWare Server goodness coming!

Cheers,

Jeremy

By: Mark Wilson

Mark Wilson — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 08:26:22 +0000

@A. Davis – thanks for your comment Andrew – it’s good to know that method works but unfortunately wasn’t an option when I wrote this post back in April 2007 as Boot Camp and VMware Fusion were both beta products back then. Hopefully I’ll be getting a MacBook Pro myself soon, after which I shall pick up a copy of VMware Fusion and give it a go!

By: A. Davis

A. Davis — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 01:07:03 +0000

I used a simpler solution than an ssh tunnel. My MacBook Pro is using BootCamp with XP installed. I have VMWare Fusion running and it opens my XP BootCamp partition w/o issue. In XP I have quite a few remote access tools installed (I’m an IT consultant so sometimes its RDP, sometimes, VNC, sometimes remote X, and sometimes RAdmin). I installed the VMWare Server Console in XP, then turned on Unity mode and just started using the Windows console natively within OS X. Worked just fine…

By: Jason Dixon

Jason Dixon — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 18:23:41 +0000

Hi Mark. Actually, I was stressing the “overlooked xauth” part as dumb, not the “bare minimum” part. But yes, you’re absolutely correct. I install the bare minimum of packages on any system plugged into network, for security reasons. Especially when it’s a Linux server.

By: Mark Wilson

Mark Wilson — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 17:57:15 +0000

Thanks for the tip Jason – and I wouldn’t consider installing the minimum number of packages to be stupid – it’s good security practice to only install the components of the system that are absolutely necessary.