Luke Sheldrick's Blog » 2.0 http://luke.sheldrick.co.uk/blog Just another blog site. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:18:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Native VNC Server – VMWare Server http://luke.sheldrick.co.uk/blog/2008/11/29/native-vnc-server-vmware-server/ http://luke.sheldrick.co.uk/blog/2008/11/29/native-vnc-server-vmware-server/#comments Sat, 29 Nov 2008 11:55:45 +0000 Luke Sheldrick http://luke.sheldrick.co.uk/blog/?p=280 Randomly discovered a nice feature of VMWare products, the in-built VNC Server. I quick look at their KB reveals http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&externalId=1246 as being listed for GSX server, however happily works for me on VMWare Server 2.0 (Haven’t tried on 1.0, just yet, but will do later).

Quite simple really, edit the Guest’s VMX file in question and add the following [changing to suite your needs] to the bottom of the file.

RemoteDisplay.vnc.enabled = “TRUE”

The below are optional, but recommended.
RemoteDisplay.vnc.port = “5900″
RemoteDisplay.vnc.password = “vncpassword”

With the 5900, change the 00, to whatever you please, if you have multiple guests running for example. The 00, will become vnc screen ’0′ and 01, would become ’1′….etc

Quite a nice feature, so I don’t have to [1] Use a vnc server on each of the guests + firewall rules for them [2] I don’t have to run fusion on my mac, to boot an XP guest, just becuase there isn’t a plugin for OSX + VMWare Console [for 2.0 :@ not that I know of anyways, please shout if you know of one though]

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]]> http://luke.sheldrick.co.uk/blog/2008/11/29/native-vnc-server-vmware-server/feed/ 1 VMware Server 2.0 installation error – boche.net – VMware Virtualization Evangelist http://luke.sheldrick.co.uk/blog/2008/11/20/vmware-server-20-installation-error-bochenet-vmware-virtualization-evangelist/ http://luke.sheldrick.co.uk/blog/2008/11/20/vmware-server-20-installation-error-bochenet-vmware-virtualization-evangelist/#comments Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:19:57 +0000 Luke Sheldrick http://luke.sheldrick.co.uk/blog/?p=248 Just tried to re-install VMWare Server 2.0 on one of my lab machines, and keep getting “The System Administrator has set policies to prevent this installation“. The below blog shows how to correct, on a non domain server.

VMware Server 2.0 installation error – boche.net – VMware Virtualization Evangelist.

For a server on a domain, you’ll need to do this on the DC, naturally.

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