Tool to Connect to Linux VMs ...

[surfup]

Hi all,

I need to find a tool to allow the users to connect to their Linux VMs. If the tools can levearage Microsoft AD for user authentication and permissions that would be great. But, not sure this can be done!

For Windows we typically used RDP to connect to VMs and the administrator use VirtualCenter client to manage the ESX servers and others as needed. We leverage the MS AD users/groups to assigned permissions/roles when using VI client.

Cheers,

[Troy_Clavell]

you could use VNC http://www.tightvnc.com/download.html or PuTTY http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

[azn2kew]

Any Linux VNC or RDP out there can do it just fine such as FreeNX tool. You can also enable VNC services on your ESX hosts and connect through VNC client for Linux VM as well.

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Regards,

Stefan Nguyen

iGeek Systems Inc.

VMware, Citrix, Microsoft Consultant

[Texiwill]

Hello,

Setup X11RDP on your Linux host then they can use RDP to access them... Check out http://www.astroarch.com/wiki/index.php/RDP_Access_of_Linux_System

Best regards,

Edward L. Haletky

VMware Communities User Moderator

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Author of the book 'VMWare ESX Server in the Enterprise: Planning and Securing Virtualization Servers', Copyright 2008 Pearson Education.

CIO Virtualization Blog: http://www.cio.com/blog/index/topic/168354

As well as the Virtualization Wiki at http://www.astroarch.com/wiki/index.php/Virtualization

[wilson94t]

Is all this really a requirement?

Why not have the users load cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com) on their desktops, and type startx to setup the xserver.

the users should then ssh -X user@host.tld from their destkops and once on the remote linux system, execute "xclock & "

too often there is no reason to burn the extra CPU time on the ESX server to run a full GUI, and users just want their one or two apps anyway.

No self respecting linux user should be firing extra gui over the wire anyway (: