Newbie basic question about hosting VMs on vsphere hypervisor

[wwzeitler]

I'm a relative newbie to VMs (and this forum).

I'm currently hosting various Win/Linux VMs on my Mac as this allows me to have a separate VM for each client, each with OS matching the customer's, and complete walling off each client's bits from the others. This is fabulous!

I also have a rack pizza box machine (with keyboard mouse & display connected). I'm currently doing the 30 trial of VMWare on it using Linux as the host and it works nicely. But I'm wondering if vsphere hypervisor might be a better way to go.

All I want the pizza box to do is host VMs. But I want to be able to select which VM has control of the pizza box's display/mouse/keyboard. Or is vsphere hypervisor only for REMOTE instances?

THANX!

[a_p_]

Welcome to the Community,

the ESXi hypervisor is a purpose built OS, and doesn't provide a grahical console for the VM's running on it. If you want/need to access a VM's console, you'll have to access the host using the vSphere Client, or - with the latest releases - throough the built in HTML5 web UI.

André

[battybishop]

Hi and welcome to the forums,

Can you give a little bit more information on how you are running VM's which VMware product are you trialling on your Linux pizza box?

As the previous reply has said VMware's hypervisor ESXi is a full blown bare metal OS so we need to know what product you have installed on your Linux pizza box.

So as soon as you can give us some more details we can give some advice.