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Is there a way to get a command line prompt to a hosted virtual machine in vmware server like xm console <name> does in Xen?

I know the graphic UI to conect to vmware-servers but I'm under low latency ssh only access and I need something more "text friendly"

theist
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http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vcli/

The vSphere Command-Line Interface (vSphere CLI) command set allows you to run common system administration commands against ESX/ESXi systems from any machine with network access to those systems.

Kyle Hunter
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Try this: http://labs.vmware.com/flings/vgc

VGC will let you run commands in guests. Have tried it on Windows guests, but not on Linux.

Let us know if it works for you.

B. Riley
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Obviously it depends on the guest OS but if it's a *nix variant couldn't you just SSH/Telnet/RDP into it or use powershell if it's Windows?

Chopper3
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  • Not that day. Mi ssh went unresponsive And I was triying to find another way to log into machine. Using Xen when I put the virtual machine under a firewall or remove ssh and other services I allways have the oportunity to use xen console. And I was looking for something similar. – theist Feb 08 '11 at 09:37
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If you have VMware tools installed in the guest OS, the API will let you invoke commands. For instance, the VMware PowerCLI command is Invoke-VmScript. vMA might have one as well.

Side note: VMware Server is EOL 2011/06/30.

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