Comments on: Connect to VMware Server Console Over SSH http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/linux/connect-to-vmware-server-console-over-ssh/ Computer Help from your Friendly How-To Geek Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:15:32 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Guy Leech http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/linux/connect-to-vmware-server-console-over-ssh/comment-page-1/#comment-46932 Guy Leech Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:08:18 +0000 http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/linux/connect-to-vmware-server-console-over-ssh/#comment-46932 To get a decent console connection, use VNC to the VMware Server itself, over SSH forwarded ports. This is not configurable in the GUI in Server (it is in Workstation 6), you have to edit the .vmx file for the relevant VM directly (when the VM is not running). Just add something like the following: RemoteDisplay.vnc.enabled = "true" RemoteDisplay.vnc.port = "5910" RemoteDisplay.vnc.password = "S0mePassw0rd" RemoteDisplay.vnc.keymap = "uk" Then set an SSH port forwarding from say local port 5910 to port 5910 on the VMware Server itself (not the IP of the VM) and use a VNC client to connect to 127.0.0.1:5910. I then keep a list of the ports I use for each VM - obviously you must use different ports for different VMs if you use them concurrently. This will even let you do a bare "metal" build of the VM since you are not using networking in the VM itself. To get a decent console connection, use VNC to the VMware Server itself, over SSH forwarded ports. This is not configurable in the GUI in Server (it is in Workstation 6), you have to edit the .vmx file for the relevant VM directly (when the VM is not running). Just add something like the following:

RemoteDisplay.vnc.enabled = “true”
RemoteDisplay.vnc.port = “5910″
RemoteDisplay.vnc.password = “S0mePassw0rd”
RemoteDisplay.vnc.keymap = “uk”

Then set an SSH port forwarding from say local port 5910 to port 5910 on the VMware Server itself (not the IP of the VM) and use a VNC client to connect to 127.0.0.1:5910. I then keep a list of the ports I use for each VM – obviously you must use different ports for different VMs if you use them concurrently.

This will even let you do a bare “metal” build of the VM since you are not using networking in the VM itself.

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