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Poor (wo)Man's Remote Control posted: Sep 5, 2008 7:49 AM

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etung
11,086 posts since
Oct 15, 2006
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.
Tags: vmrun, vmware_fusion

0.2008.09.05

1. Sep 5, 2008 7:46 AM in response to: etung
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etung
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Oct 15, 2006
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.png
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Re: Poor (wo)Man's Remote Control

2. Sep 5, 2008 2:04 PM in response to: etung
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bgertzfield
1,120 posts since
Sep 7, 2005
This is awesome! Well done, etung!

Re: Poor (wo)Man's Remote Control

3. Sep 6, 2008 12:28 AM in response to: etung
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wila
3,266 posts since
Jun 27, 2006
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: 0.2008.09.05

4. Sep 8, 2008 5:13 PM in response to: etung
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bgertzfield
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Sep 7, 2005
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: 0.2008.09.05

5. Sep 8, 2008 5:35 PM in response to: bgertzfield
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etung
11,086 posts since
Oct 15, 2006
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

6. Sep 29, 2009 3:09 PM in response to: etung
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njpomeroy
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Sep 29, 2009
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.

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