I won't be upgrading to V2.0 unless and until they put the console back in.

Performance improvements are on the schedule for upcoming releases. In terms of paradigm, are there issues besides performance that cause you to not like a web user interface? Browser versions, feature set, etc?

that one just doesn't want to be bothered with opening a browser. Especially if the rest of the computer is running at high resource utilization.

Currently I can't see how I would remotely administer more than 1 vmware server 2 box. From another thread it seems that I need to forward both port 902 and the https port but cannot translate them to alternate ports (thus allowing remote administration of more than 1 server) With vmware server 1 it was simple, I could forward port 902 to anything I wanted as I could specify it in the the vmware console instance, and same with the mui. I guess it also comes down to the fact if I didn't want to install the mui I didn't have to...all management interfaces could be remote and technically more portable. In a pinch I could run the vmware console through a SSH tunnel. I'm challenged to find similar solutions with vmware server 2.

If you provide the same level of flexibility as we have come to take for granted with vmware server 1 with your new product then it would be easier to migrate to your web interface. However, there should be a way to manage multiple vmware server instances from 1 instance of the web console. Just as I only required 1 installation of the vmware console software, it should not be necessary to have more than 1 instance of the web console. It seems to be a waste of memory and processor cycles that could be better used by the guests, since in the long run, that's what these servers are there for.

I'm definitely flexible, but I still need to be able to do my job on a day to day basis, as does every other admin here I would assume. As I was more than willing to start using vmware server 1 from its first beta, I will do the same with server 2 in the hopes that our input helps shape its development. There is some amazing advances being made for a free product.

Please let me know if you would like more input or information, and please keep up the development!

t.

With VMware Server 2 beta 1.. u can manage all your guests in one web browser, just like VMware 1.04 console

Best Regards

Medium

I am going to repeat here what I said on the main Server forum.

All I can say is I am royally pissed they removed the native console application. It was fast, worked well, stable, and did what I wanted it to do. Now we have a slow, buggy web app that should never be the primary interface
for a console. Now we are forced into installing VNC or NX to be able
to get fast console access to our virtual boxes. The web interface is
horrid, confusing and slow -- Why the hell couldnt have VMWare ported
the Virtual Infrastructure 3 client to a neutral platform, like QT, and
have native versions for Windows, Linux and Mac, instead of this
horrible thing? Even Java would have been better than this peice of
garbage.

I plead... I implore... no, I BEG... VMWare to Open Source the VMWare
Server Console and the interface API specs so we can maintain it as a
viable management option going forward. Nobody should be forced into
using a web interface for a virtual machine console. As a loyal VMWare
user since 1999 and having worked with every version of the product
since then, in GSX, ESX, Server, Workstation and Player versions, I
strongly urge the company to reconsider removing the native console.
PUT IT BACK!!!!!!

Jason Perlow

Sr. Technology Editor

Linux Magazine

jperlow@linux-mag.com

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