It's great to be able to test the beta, but it comes with a few problems: debug mode is forced on us, and there's the WebUI...
Debug mode: I have use the beta for a few weeks now, and if I had come across anything where it would have been useful, I would have by now. As I don't need it anymore, I should be able to turn it off to get some better performance.
WebUI: by now I am sure most people agree that it's a useless piece of junk, and it has no place in this product.
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How to disable debug mode:
cd /usr/lib/vmware/bin
mv vmware-vmx-debug vmware-vmx-debug.old
ln -s vmware-vmx vmware-vmx-debug
mv vmware-remotemks-debug vmware-remotemks-debug.old
ln -s vmware-remotemks vmware-remotemks-debug
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Use the VI Client 2.5:
If you have a Linux host you can download it from the server (https://ip_of_your_vmware_server/client/VMware-viclient.exe)
If you have a Windows host you need to download the Linux version and get it from there.
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Disable the web management console:
Edit /etc/init.d/vmware
Find the following lines at the end of the file:
case $1 in
start)
service_vmware "$1"
service_vmware_mgmt "$1"
service_vmware_autostart "$1"
;;
Comment out the service_vmware_mgmt line, and add a line to start the
remote management interface, as below:
service_vmware "$1"
service_vmware_mgmt "$1"
vmware_start_hostd
service_vmware_autostart "$1"
To start WebAccess, use:
service vmware-mgmt start
and to stop it:
service vmware-mgmt stop
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With the tweaks above, on a minimal CentOS 5.1 64bit server, linux + vmware only use 75MB ram.
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