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It’s a huge VMware peformance achievement over at Punching Clouds - and one that certainly caught my attention.
I’m talking about the marriage between the vSphere Client and Mac OS X.
Mind you, this is not a legal marriage by any means - more like a underground union arranged by a nameless virtualization blogger. As he - and I’m assuming it’s a male - calls it, “I’ve just plucked a bright shiny Apple from the Tree of Virtual Knowledge.”
Well said.
While this blogger admits that he didn’t event the wheel - he did use some creative ingenuity to figure out which open source components and software would get vSphere to work on a Mac.
Why vSphere though?
The virtualization scientist lays it all out here:
All of us that use Macs would really love to have a native vSphere Client from VMware, but this is something that I don’t think they are going to focus on very much, at least in the near future. Up until now, If you wanted to run the vSphere Client on Mac OS X, you could go about implementing that via VMware Fusion by running a VM in Unity mode. If you didn’t know about Unity view, it removes or hides the VM from the screen and simply displays the applications that are running in the VM. That’s great and all - and I personally love VMware Fusion and think it’s a freaking awesome product - but I always thought it would be so much better to just have a client on Mac OS X that didn’t require me to load a VM just to get access to it.
So what were the magic ingredients?
The anonymous blogger says he used “X11, MacPorts, rdesktop, and Seamlessrdp to create a remote terminal session to a Windows Server 2003 R2 VM running in a remote VMware Fusion VM and also another one hosted on an ESX Server in the lab.”
What’s more, the blogger reveals step-by-step how the process was run - complete with screenshots and bullet points.
If you’re a back room computer scientist who loves to tinker and explore - check out how this vSphere Client Mac OS X union came to be.
It’s as innovative as it is fascinating - and something techies will be buzzing about for months to come.
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VMware Communities: Trouble with vSphere in Mac Fusion Windows … - I don’t have any Windows systems to run vsphere on so I am using a virtualized Windows XP system running on my Mac under VMware Fusion. So, I installed vSphere client from my ESXi 4.0 installation without any problems. … VMware Communities: vSphere VI Client Display Language - K-MaC 337 posts since. Jun 16, 2008. Hello all. I am trying to help someone find an answer to their question and at the same time answer the question for myself. Basically the problem is after installing the VI Client from vSphere I am … Mac: Software to use other OS on your Mac - View list. Are you migrating to Mac. With this software you will be able to use your windows or Linux system directly from a virtual server on your Mac OS X. Integrate both OS in your Mac and use the power of both systems. … Downloading and installing vSphere and vCenter - Hey Fabio, don’t worry about it. It is just something that I append to some of my posts and not really needed. You are correct this thread is not marked as a question. Anyway have a good day. … |
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