Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:05:40 +0000 From: "Peter Harrison" <peter.piggybox@virgin.net> To: Kevin Wilcox <kevin.wilcox@gmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Managing ESXi from FreeBSD... Message-ID: <xPkfkhgcLFCg.GgMPLljv@smtp.virgin.net>
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Kevin, Sorry for top posting - my phone makes it awkward. I hadn't thought of running a Windows vm. Do you think that would work as a = vm on the server with a connection via RDP? Disappointing that the tools are so Windows-centric. Happy to consider Xen = - is that harder to deploy though? Thanks, Peter. -original message- Subject: Re: Managing ESXi from FreeBSD... From: Kevin Wilcox <kevin.wilcox@gmail.com> Date: 23/01/2011 22:46 On 23 January 2011 17:41, Peter Harrison <peter.piggybox@virgin.net> = wrote: > I don't want to be stuck using Windows to manage this machine though. = What are my options for managing this machine and the VM's from my FreeBSD = laptop? I've enable ssh access, but can I control all the VM's this way? Is = there a command line or X-Windows option for remotely management? I don't have SSH access to our ESX servers at work but I do have vSphere access. I've found that the easiest thing for me to do is to just keep a Windows VM via VirtualBox. Sadly, it looks like XenServer has the same issue - the really nice GUI is basically Windows only. At least Xen still has a rich CLI option, my understanding is that as VMWare does away with the = console, they're going GUI/Windows-management only. kmw
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