now that we have a webUI, can i expect that i can administer VMware from OSX or BSD ?

Basically main problem with Web Ui is that console embedded into web browser is causing many problems. On my computer is completely unusable with Intenet Explorer. Everytime when I'm trying to use console with IE browser just hangs and I have to kill process. With FireFox works fine but is crashing browser from time to time.

If there will be no improvement in this area I think people will not upgrade to VMware Server 2.0. Previous console was fine and stable. I've seen on webcast that there is a possibility to manage VMware Server 2.0 with Virtual Infrastructure Client but the only source where this application is available is VI3. Apart of that it looks like ot manage VMware Server 2.0 using VI3 client Virtual Center should be installed which is not good as well.

I'm using VMware Server 2.0 as my test and experimental platform at home and before version 2.0 I had no issues with using it. Now I'm struggling how to bring this thing to live properly (not VMware Server 2.0 itself but management interface).

At the moment is a wasting-time. Instead concern around lab environment and what I want to do I have to pray to console not to crash my browser

Maybe you have any good news at this stage that this issue is solved and hyper-improved console component has been released ??

To provide more details about my environment I'm using laptop with Windows Vista Ultimate on it, IE7, FireFox 2.0.0.9.

Some extra thoughts !

1) My existing 1.0.4 vmwsvr only has 320M RAM (host OS CentOS w/o any X or GUI with 2 x Red Hat 8 64M guests) so there is now way i could let 200M be eaten up by the "new UI" !

2) However I don't have a problem installing real firefox since the distro build on Ed/X/Ubuntu is seriously flawed so I now always delete it and install genuine firefox instead !

regards
clive
http://www.osde.info

I'd have some problems with Server Beta. When I trying connect to VMware Server with Vmware Infrastructure Client I'd resive error:

A communication error occurred while sending data to the server
Please help me with this problem.

You'll need to create an official SR (its FREE for beta customers). VMware do not generally help with or fix problems that are only posted on forums

regards
clive

http://www.vizzr.info

Hmm! I am not sure, it sounds like you are saying that you can only connect
to VMware server using web UI. But I think it is not true. I installed VMware
server 2.0 Beta 1 on my XP SP2 work station and was able to successfully
connect using my Virtual Center Console 2.0.2 Build 63231. Also in this build
it is much more detail than old VMware server console 1.4, which didn't allow
you to have the real time performance graph, map options, open new console and
many other features.

However when click you help - about; you will see that the VMware server
shows up as: ESX version e.x.p Build 63231.

See the attached image!

FYI:

While I don't know if this was a build mistake, the VMware Console fat client does still exist with VMware Server 2 Beta. Look in the \VMware\VMwareServer directory. The vmware.exe program is the fat client. However, it no longer appears to want to connect to the server. There could be some configuration options hidden somewhere to enable it (or not).

So, there is hope.

Myself, I would be happy if they produces a Mac OSX version of the Firefox plugin considering VMware Fusion is released and the company seems to want Mac users.

Mark