John Andersen wrote:
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Greg Freemyer
wrote: All,
I thought I would give vmware server 2 beta a try.
Has anyone had any luck with that?
=== It seemed to install just fine, but when I try to access the user interface to create a new VM, etc. it is not working.
ie. I'm trying to access http://127.0.0.1 and entering my user login / password.
In /var/log/messages I'm seeing password accepted if I type the right password and rejected if I type the wrong one, but ...
From firefox I still get the access rejected status,
From konquerer (launched by typing "vmware") I am getting "page loaded" but just a blank screen otherwise.
Are they forcing you to use a web browser now for management?
That pretty much sucks. The prior tool was pretty fast and secure. Having a web interface just screams "hack me!"
It's even worse: They go the ESX route and don't provide vmware-server-console any more. Instead the console is now a web app. Yep, exchanging a 30KB gtk application with a several-MB browser plugin. Never mind that the standard size of a browser window is not usable for a console, and never mind that changing it will change it also for your Web browsing tasks. And never mind that it doesn't work in many browsers -- but the vmware folks will tell you that this is only because it's still beta and this will get ironed out before the final release. Oh yes, and did I mention that vmware server beta uses j2ee and has a memory footprint of a few 100 MBs just for starting, without any vm instances? If you go to the vmware forums, you will read users screaming for a change. But vmware doesn't listen. They tell us we shall use VMware workstation instead. (That workstation doesn't provide the same feature set is obviously no issue for them.) IMHO, that mindset of we-dont-care-for-our-customers will kill them in the end. I'm a paying VMware customer since the start of their company, but I'm just waiting that the snapshot and migration functionality of other virtualization products will get better, then I'll switch. VMware company politics sucks since they have been taken over by EMC. That always seems to be the difference between a small focused tech company and a ``global player''. Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod@acm.org Roedermark, Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org