[CentOS] vmware-server-console not installed

Mon Apr 26 17:52:15 UTC 2010
Kwan Lowe <kwan.lowe at gmail.com>

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/26/2010 12:36 PM, 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 2.x server doesn't have a separate console program like the 1.x
> series did - remote access is browser-based.  Connect via http on port
> 8882 or https on 8883.  But, there are problems with the glibc library
> in RHEL/CentOS5 updates that may not be resolved yet.  Do you even have
> the server running?

There's the glibc issue that's still unresolved.  There's another
issue with using Firefox as the admin client. It *might* let you in,
but the console plugin doesn't appear to be working again. Only client
that works for me is InternetExploder.