[CentOS] vmware-server-console not installed

[Kwan Lowe]

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 8:18 PM, John Thomas
<gmane-2006-04-16 at jt-socal.com> wrote:
> Agnello George wrote:
>> I had installed the vmware server ( VMware-server-2.0.1-156745.i386 ) on
>> my CentOS 5 box how ever i am not able to  to find the command
>> vmware-server-console . Do i need to install that RPM separately .
>
> The console app is a Firefox plugin, but I extract the app and run it
> separately and find that solution (hack?) much better.
>
>  From memory, here is how you do that:
>   1. Get a copy of vmware-vmrc-linux-x86.xpi (mine was in
> /usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/webapps/ui/plugin/vmware-vmrc-linux-x86.xpi)
>   2. Rename the file to vmware-vmrc-linux-x86.xpi.zip
>   3. Unzip the file
>
> Now run vmware-vmrc or pass some info like capitalized below:
> vmware-vmrc -h HOST:PORT -u USER -p PASSWORD

:D

Awesome!!!  Just tried it and it works wonderfully. Now I don't need
to boot into that XP partition anymore...  Thank you!