VMware Communities: Message List - Poor (wo)Man's Remote Control

Re: 0.2008.09.05

njpomeroy — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:09:34 GMT

yes, "open vnc://<server:port>" will open Mac OS X Leopard's Screen Sharing viewer be default (even if Apple Remote Desktop is installed). Ot should be the same in 10.6 Snow Leopard as well.

Re: 0.2008.09.05

etung — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:34:28 GMT

Good point!

I went with CotVNC because I couldn't figure out how to pass host/port to Screen Sharing.app, though I didn't think of that url method. Hmm, wonder if simply calling "open vnc://..." would work.

Re: 0.2008.09.05

bgertzfield — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:13:57 GMT

By the way, you can use Mac OS X 10.5's built-in "Screen Sharing" VNC client to connect to your VMware Fusion 2.0 VMs.

Just make sure you have VNC enabled in your VM, and that a password is set:

RemoteDisplay.vnc.enabled = "TRUE"
RemoteDisplay.vnc.port = "5901"
RemoteDisplay.vnc.password = "changeThisPassword"

Then you can just go to Finder on your Mac, select the menu Go -> Connect to Server… and enter:

vnc://1.2.3.4:5901

where 1.2.3.4 is the IP address of your VM.

Re: Poor (wo)Man's Remote Control

wila — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 07:28:31 GMT

Jay, exactly what the doctor prescribed (well OK, just what I need)

Thanks Eric and congratulations with your guru status, you absolutely deserve the title!

--
Wil

Re: Poor (wo)Man's Remote Control

bgertzfield — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:04:22 GMT

This is awesome! Well done, etung!

Poor (wo)Man's Remote Control

etung — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:42:14 GMT

To celebrate making Guru status, here's another app to play with. PMRC allows you to interact with remote virtual machines using ssh and vmrun (yay scripting!). PMRC relies on vmrun, so Fusion 2.0 is required.

Actions include:

Power on
Power off
Suspend
Take snapshot
Restore snapshot

Additionally, if you have Chicken of the VNC installed, you can connect to (correctly set up) running virtual machines.

PMRC requires some setup to use, please read the readme first.

I will update this top post if and when I make updates so you don't have to search through the thread. The current version is 0.2008.09.05.

0.2008.09.05

etung — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:46:25 GMT

Actions include:

Power on
Power off
Suspend
Take snapshot
Restore snapshot

Additionally, if you have Chicken of the VNC installed, you can connect to (correctly set up) running virtual machines.