[Leaplist] VMware management interface

[Dan Cherry]

Carter Manucy wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-12-10 at 15:45 -0500, Dan Cherry wrote:
> 
>> I'm having a real senior moment this afternoon;-)  Vmserver is running 
>> on PC-1, and the program vmware under linux lets me run the virtual XP 
>> system locally.  No problems - very nice - quite impressive in fact.
>>
>> I thought??? installing vmplayer on PC-2 would allow me to run the 
>> virtual XP system on PC-1 from a different linux machine (PC-2), but 
>> that doesn't appear to be the case.
> 
> VMWare Player is just for running VMWare images.  You just want the
> management client for PC-2 if you want to access the XP VM running on
> PC-1.
> 
> 
> 
>> To access the virtual XP system on PC-1, should I be using vmplayer on 
>> pc-2? (if so, how, please).  If not, should I get a second vmware-server 
>> for pc-2 and just point it to pc-1?  Or worse yet, should I expect to be 
>> able to run the virtual XP system on PC-1 from PC-2 at all?
> 
> Go back to the downloads page for VMWare server and d/l the managment
> client.  Here's the url I get:
> 
> http://download3.vmware.com/software/vmserver/VMware-server-linux-client-1.0.1-29996.zip
> 
> That's the same client you get from installing the server - that's what
> I use on my FC6 laptop.
> 
> -Carter
> 
total success!  Thanks for saving me a lot of time, and the little hair 
I have left ;-)

I really appreciate it...
Dan

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Dan Cherry
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Implementing the solution solves the problem.