From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 24 18:54:29 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D036106566C for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 18:54:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from outbackdingo@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f54.google.com (mail-ew0-f54.google.com [209.85.215.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEEFC8FC12 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 18:54:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy24 with SMTP id 24so2137188ewy.13 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 10:54:27 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=FkQbZnE/JQSxqix8fMYZLRnFaLFG94ZtjKpHWBsL3jA=; b=QOzWSDBwRhg9GoMwuz8vjp41pVoql4u7w5wyLCxNxDyLaqFBrGJh/9lhsqUx6NTaJ1 oSilqqH6QW8uaiK/nSPq2muQsGH5HebJT8jCb1lHyANsuZNpnKM4fqGyZ47gcakI/cUE aTHZkH5rLP4Ro+cIFG6Pqwm1mwSr+uvFFvZos= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=OeRzGj4OP7RShoyEWcwgVGVtJpanFdsVPE0pNyFInFoHsXQEcok3EPtbjsMlXRuLbR WLwcgaAP6VjjT03gOfvOKioHHL6Fohl3Im43GMFHoxwZXqLIYkbg8u58fzpr1v1btVG5 PbfCOOgge6ci0pHG4PVVj/jPmRa90xCTqusk8= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.14.17.193 with SMTP id j41mr4693068eej.38.1295894534271; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 10:42:14 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.14.48.75 with HTTP; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 10:42:14 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 13:42:14 -0500 Message-ID: From: Outback Dingo To: Peter Harrison Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Kevin Wilcox , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Managing ESXi from FreeBSD... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 18:54:29 -0000 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 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 > Date: 23/01/2011 22:46 > > On 23 January 2011 17:41, Peter Harrison > 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" >