I want to get control of Vmware Esxi server, but there is no Client available for Ubuntu. Is there any way to access Vmware Esxi from ubuntu 12.04.1?
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I want to get control of Vmware Esxi server, but there is no Client available for Ubuntu. Is there any way to access Vmware Esxi from ubuntu 12.04.1?
1. Ensure you have network connectivity before continuing
2. Get all updates for the server
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
3. Create the mount point for the CDROM
sudo mkdir -p /media/cdrom
4. Mount the ISO to the folder we created
sudo mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom
5. Change the Directory
cd /media/cdrom
6. Copy the tar file from your mounted CDROM/ISO to your /tmp directory
sudo cp VM*.tar.gz /tmp (Sample Filename: VMwareTools-8.6.0-425873.tar.gz)
7. Install all these dependencies & build tools
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-server build-essential
8. Change the Directory
cd /tmp
9. Unmount the ISO we mounted earlier
sudo umount /media/cdrom
10. Expand the tar
sudo tar -zxvf VM*.tar.gz
11. Change Directory
cd vmware-tools-distrib
12. Create a special directory
sudo mkdir /usr/lib64
13. Run the Install Script
sudo ./vmware-install.pl
14. Reboot
sudo reboot
This is for guest system, I want access Vmware server from another Ubuntu desktop.
It's not possible to do this natively, the VMware client is not available for Linux and it doesn't run under Wine.
I have a Windows VM running on my workstation just for running the VMware client.
Yep, it is the worst thing about ESXi (apart from the manual update process of the free version......) being forced to use the Windows only vSphere Hypervisor client.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cheesemill
Still, you only need a lightweight P.O.S. like XP to run it and a lot of people have that sort of rubbish available.