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ericx
ericx

Reputation: 834

Access ESXi guest console without a Windows OS?

As far as I know, vSphere Client is only available to run on Windows. And VSphere Client is the only tool which provides guest consoles?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1290

Answers (3)

Gireesh
Gireesh

Reputation: 54

Recent versions of ESXi support web clients. AFAIK, web client offer more services than traditional Windows application, vSphere client.

Upvotes: 2

Hao Nguyen
Hao Nguyen

Reputation: 536

There are couples options for you to access the host directly without using vSphere Client (which is only for Windows).

  • On Linux or Mac, you can try Wine and install vSphere Client.
  • Use vSphere Web Client - this is the best option for non-Windows administrator.
  • Install VNC on the Guest OS and access it directly.
  • Use some other third party software such as IntelliAdmin Remote Control.
  • If the Guest OS is a Windows environment, use mstsc /admin to remote desktop to the OS console.

Hope it helps.

Upvotes: 0

Donghua Lau
Donghua Lau

Reputation: 5

You can try ssh if your virtual host is Linux?

Upvotes: 0

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