Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 13:42:14 -0500 From: Outback Dingo <outbackdingo@gmail.com> To: Peter Harrison <peter.piggybox@virgin.net> Cc: Kevin Wilcox <kevin.wilcox@gmail.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Managing ESXi from FreeBSD... Message-ID: <AANLkTi=zGy9yzabWVvWh-56g7mHJ7Oxhz5gZ=4q9Nvcw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <xPkfkhgcLFCg.GgMPLljv@smtp.virgin.net> References: <xPkfkhgcLFCg.GgMPLljv@smtp.virgin.net>
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loose ESucksXi and install XCP 1.0 and for management xencenter / openxencenter will run on FreeBSD, On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Peter Harrison <peter.piggybox@virgin.net>wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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