Cannot connect to ESXi clients via VNC

[wsoh24]

Hello,

I am using ESXi 6.7 and am trying to connect to a Windows 10 VM on it, using VNC.

I have gone through the configuration steps to add VNC to services.xml and update the firewall rules.

Running 'esxcli network firewall ruleset list | grep VNC' returns 'VNC true".

In the configuration for the VM I added the keys:

RemoteDisplay.vnc.enabled = TRUE

RemoteDisplay.vnc.port = 5951

When I try to connect via <ip_address>:5951, I am unable to connect.  I have tried using various VNC clients both on Linux and Windows, all with the same results.

If I install TightVNC Server on the VM, I can connect using VNC, but obviously this isn't desired and I need to be able to connect without installing a VNC Server.

Thanks in advance.

[Rajhere]

Hi you would require a VNC server to be able to achieve this requirement..

[T180985]

Did you power off the VM when you applied those settings? If not, it will need to be powercycled to pick up the advanced settings