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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