Comments on: VMWare Server Console on Firefox 3.6

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 07:22:17 +0000

Hi mstrdigi,

Thanks but I no longer need your help with this. I went down a different path:

http://www.geeklab.info/2010/02/running-vmware-remote-console-outside-the-browser/

and found a solution.

-Dan

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 10:51:14 +0000

Hello mstrdigi,

It seems that you have the answer to the problem, but I am so far unable to make your solution work. Would you mind discussing it with me further?

I followed your directions up to copying the plugin dir to /usr/local/vmware. I had no vmware dir on my machine, so I created it. Then I copied the dir. Now I am in the following state:

If I copy the plugins dir to /usr/local/vmware then my virtual machine no longer start. They progress to 95%, hang, then fail (some timeout kicks in I suppose).

If I move /usr/local/vmware out of the way and reboot my host (seems to be a necessary step; restarting vmware doesn’t clear the problem) then I am able to start and stop VMs as before, but of course cannot access consoles. This is the same state I was in before I began trying to apply your fix.

Thanks.

-Dan

By: Arminius

Arminius — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:28:23 +0000

I solved the problem by connecting to the VMWare-Server via an IE-Tab.

By: mstrdigi

mstrdigi — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:56:32 +0000

I have workaround for this problem.
Install the vmware plugin.
goto
~/.mozilla/firefox/[your profile].default/extensions/VMwareVMRC@vmware.com/plugins
make vmware-vmrc executable
goto ./bin
make all file executable
goto ./lib
make wrapper-gtk24.sh executable
check vmware-vmrc for missing libraries (ldd vmware-vmrc)
all the missing libs can be found in ./lib

I copied the plugin dir to /usr/local/vmware
an put the missing libraries in the library path, dirty workaround but works for me/