Well I can't give up. If we give up then there will never be a Linux VI client for certain.

Please, please, please give us a native Linux VI client.

Adding myself to this increasingly ridiculous thread. I work in a primarily Linux-based workplace. New people who ask us how to access our ESXi virtual Linux servers are always confused when we tell them that you need Windows to do so. It just doesn't make sense! So we run VI Client inside a Windows guest on Workstation, which is awkward as hell (speaking of which, why can't we change the mouse focus escape key binding in VI Client??).

All resources dedicated to Linux VI client support were diverted towards other pressing issues, such as creation of a new VMware logo.

The way this company has been behaving over the past year makes me want to weep... When I became a VCP years ago I was their hugest fan.

~RTC

RideTheCliche wrote:
All resources dedicated to Linux VI client support were diverted towards other pressing issues, such as creation of a new VMware logo.

The way this company has been behaving over the past year makes me want to weep... When I became a VCP years ago I was their hugest fan.

~RTC

Hah! Nice.

On a serious note, you guys should check out the video presentation from Adam Young and Ben (don't know his last name) at this years VMworld 2009 here: http://www.vmworld.com/docs/DOC-2816/version/2

You will have to create an account to watch it, but they discuss at the end some of their logic of working on the VCenter Server for Linux before they do a client for Linux. It does make a lot of sense. I just hope it really gets some internal support before all the Linux shops bail out. (if VMware is left with only Windows customer base, guess who they will cater to..)

Anyway, please check out and discuss.

-Jamin Ragle
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VCP, Linux System Administrator, All around great guy.

We've already started the migration. I've been running kqemu virtual machines under the beta release of Fedora 12 and I must say I extremely impressed, both with performance and the management GUI. You should defininitely check it out. We've moved our development off of ESXi and we're currently qualifying our server images under kqemu in order to move them over, too.

Of course, lack of linux VI client wasn't the only reason for this move. Frankly, the more I worked with ESX, the more I was annoyed with not having a real OS I could use at the hypervisor layer to manage my VMs. But lack of VI was the kick in the pants to really start the migration.

Good job, VMWare, way to run off your customers. But, I'm sure the $30K/yr we've been paying for licenses isn't that important to you.

I like the new logo, though.

how about a OS X client???

not even a dream.... right?

worst part of it all:

WASTING HOST RESOURCES to RDP into XP just for the beeping client.

i dream at least of a LINUX client