VMWare Server 2.0 Console Failure

Sun, 02/01/2009 - 16:16 — Holger

The latest VMWare Server is only supporting Web Access for configuration including console access to a Virtual Machine.
There is a Firefox Plugin for the remote console, but that did not work in my setup. The Web Access will no longer complain about a missing plugin after installation, but the console will not start either.
While searching for a fix, I also found instructions to run the remote console in the command line. Combining this with an environment setting for GTK, I am now able to run a remote console.

My solution is starting with the normal installation of the Firefox Plugin. If that's available the following script should start a remote console from command line:

#!/bin/bash
################################################################################
# Call VMWare Server's Remote Console in a clean GTK setup.
################################################################################

# Clean GTK setup for VMWare
export VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=yes

# Find console executable in Firefox plugins.
vmrc="$(find "$HOME/.mozilla/firefox" -name vmware-vmrc -type f -perm -111 | tail -1)"
[ -x "$vmrc" ] || exit 1

set -x
cd "$(dirname "$vmrc")" && "$vmrc" -h 127.0.0.1:8333

It should also be possible to run Firefox by VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=yes firefox in your Linux command line to fix the GTK issue.

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Fri, 02/26/2010 - 21:31 — Anonymous

VMWare 2.0.x Install script

A beautifully seamless script, weaved in with the standard installation script. As far as I can tell, not a single problem...installed on Ubuntu Karmic on AMD-64 workstation...

Thu, 02/25/2010 - 19:37 — Anonymous

Outstanding Work

Thank you guys for doing the dirty work and making my life easier.

Fri, 02/19/2010 - 17:15 — Anonymous

problem after mounting /home/user on another disk

Hello,

Fisrt of all thank you for the script, it did great job until i decided to mount my home folder on another disk...
Now when i'm launching the script i get this error :

demonipuch@ubuntu:~$ ./Bureau/start-VMware-console.sh ++ dirname /home/demonipuch/.mozilla/firefox/71d3proa.default/extensions/VMwareVMRC@vmware.com/plugins/bin/vmware-vmrc + cd /home/demonipuch/.mozilla/firefox/71d3proa.default/extensions/VMwareVMRC@vmware.com/plugins/bin + /home/demonipuch/.mozilla/firefox/71d3proa.default/extensions/VMwareVMRC@vmware.com/plugins/bin/vmware-vmrc -h 127.0.0.1:8333 /home/demonipuch/.mozilla/firefox/71d3proa.default/extensions/VMwareVMRC@vmware.com/plugins/bin/vmware-vmrc: error while loading shared libraries: libexpat.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

libexpat.so.0 actually exists in the folder /home/demonipuch/.mozilla/firefox/71d3proa.default/extensions/VMwareVMRC@vmware.com/plugins/lib

What's wrong with the script and how can i fix it please??

Fri, 02/19/2010 - 18:17 — Anonymous

nevermind, i got it working

nevermind, i got it working now...
i had to add those lines

VMLIB=$(dirname "$vmrc") VMLIB=$(dirname "$VMLIB")/lib

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$VMLIB/libexpat.so.0:$VMLIB/libsexymm.so.2:$VMLIB/libview.so.2:$VMLIB/libvmwarebase.so.0:$VMLIB/libvmwareui.so.0:$VMLIB/libgvmomi.so.0

Sat, 02/20/2010 - 21:35 — Holger

Karmic Coala x86_64,
Updated Kernel 2.6.31-14-generic
VMware Server 2.0.2-203138

Sun, 11/01/2009 - 15:37 — Mehdi Hassanpour (mehdi) 's status on Sunday, 01-Nov-09 (not verified)

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Sun, 02/01/2009 - 23:03 — Holger

VMWare Console's GTK

In the meantime I got some more details about this issue (yes, I admit, that I used GTK-clients in KDE using appropriate schemes):

Starting Firefox with a QT-related GTK scheme will break the VMWare Server Console, carping Glib::FileError.
Setting VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=yes in the environment before starting Firefox will fix the problem, the VMWare plugin will not use my GTK setting.
Using another GTK scheme (not QT or QTCurve) will also solve this issue.

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