Server Console Firefox plugin VMWare Server 2.0.1 ( 2009/03/31 | Build: 156745 ) not working

Amain — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:23:18 +0000

Since VMWare Server 2 everything is administrated from a webinterface. This works nice and looks nice. Unfortunately I could not open the Console to the Guest OS. Starting and stopping the Guest OS no problem, but no graphical console. When opening the console in the webinterface, a plugin must be installed in firefox. This is downloaded from your VMWare Server installation’s webserver. It installs cleanly, but after restarting the web interface, and trying to open the console of a Guest OS, nothing happens. Total silence. Annoying, at least. After investigating, it seemed in my case, that some libraries could not be found. Creating some symlinks and starting the server console from the command line would run just fine:

$HOME.mozilla/firefox/.vmware/extensions/VMwareVMRC@vmware.com/plugins/vmware-vmrc

But no way it would start from the VMWare server webinterface. The solution in my case was simple though: Don’t use a Firefox profile with a space in the name. My profile was called ‘Default User’ and that didn’t work. After creating a new profile ( called vmware ), without spaces, it worked!

Server Console VMWare Server 2.0.1 ( 2009/03/31 | Build: 156745 ) does not have a CTRL-ALT-DELETE option

Amain — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:08:33 +0000

The CTRL-ALT-DELETE option in the Server Console of VMWare Server 2.0.1( 2009/03/31 | Build: 156745 ) is missing. This is very anoying. In Ubuntu, when pressing CTRL-ALT-DELETE the ‘Close Computer’ screen appears. Also pressing CTRL-ALT removes keyboaard/mouse control from the VMWare Server Console window back to Ubuntu/X Server. So is there no way yo login into your Windows Guest OS. Of course there are other options:

Press CTR-ALT-. ( The . / ALT key on the numeric keyboard )
On a laptop without numeric keyboard: CTRL-ALT-PrintScrn
( note: on my laptop that is: CTRL-ALT-Fn-PrintScrn )
CTRL-ALT-INS is reported to work but, didn’t work for me
Using VNC
- Add the following lines to the VMWare .vmx config file:
```
 RemoteDisplay.vnc.enabled = "TRUE"
```
```
 RemoteDisplay.vnc.port = "5900"
```
```
 RemoteDisplay.vnc.password = ""
```
- Restart Guest OS and connect with vncviewer to the screen of the Guest OS
- Press F8 and choose from the menu ‘Send CTRL-ALT-DELETE’

There are more options, but these seem to me the best working.

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Server Console Firefox plugin VMWare Server 2.0.1 ( 2009/03/31 | Build: 156745 ) not working

Server Console VMWare Server 2.0.1 ( 2009/03/31 | Build: 156745 ) does not have a CTRL-ALT-DELETE option