Possible to enter the console of virtual machine from ESXi Shell?

[Toorms]

Hello vmware Community,

Currently I use the "VMware ESXi 5.1.0" Server in a external testlab. It's possible to enter the console from the virtual machine "machine01" out of the ESXi-CLI?

Thanks in advanced for your help.

^Toorms

[GayathriS]

Hi

-->ESXi 5.1 is already out of support .

-->What is the OS running on VM "machine01" .

when you say entering the console of virtual mahcine with out esx-cli what is that mean ? and what are you trying to achieve .

regards

gayathri

[Vijay2027]

I do not think if there is such option to open VM console from esxcli.

[Toorms]

Yep. I know. 😕

• CentOS is running on machine01
• I mean, when I logged into the vmware-cli I want to enter the console of the centOS machine trough the vmware-cli. Is this possible?

[GayathriS]

Check out this :

How to open a VM console from command prompt for Vsphere Client 6.0?

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regards

Gayathri

[Toorms]

I mean rather like this one:

This (the picture) is the esxi-console. I will start the console from the virtual machine out of this (above) console.

[psibaja]

Hello Toorms,

The Console functionality to view and administer a Guest OS of a VM comes only with the vSphere Client (aka Thick Client) or the Web Client including the HTML5 version.

Unfortunately, from the ESXi Shell this function is not available.

Kind regards,

Pablo