You can give your own password on “vnc.password”. “vnc.port” should be unique across all the virtual guests.The last two digits may vary from 00 to 99. rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2901 Feb 3 09:00 Oracle Solaris11.vmxĨ.Add the below lines to “Oracle Solaris11.vmx” file. rw-r-r- 1 root root 271 Feb 3 04:24 Oracle Solaris11.vmxf

By default it will be your guest hostname.vmx. vmfs/volumes/52ef11f6-2f9eb043-4675-000c29ccd561/Oracle Solaris11 #ħ.List the *.vmx files under oracle Solaris 11 and edit “Oracle Solaris11.vmx” file. ~ # df -hįilesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on Login to ESXi server using ssh and navigate to the virtual machine location.Ħ.Here my guest Operating system is oracle Solaris 11 and its running on datastore UnixArenaDS1. Enable the gdbserver on the FirewallĤ.Halt the virtual machine for which you want configure the VNC virtual hardware console.ĥ. Open firewall for VNC Serverģ.Select the gdbserver check box and click OK. Enabling the VNC server for Virtual hardware Console – 2.Navigate it to firewall and click on the properties link on the right top. Login to Vpshere Client and Click on the ESXi server in which you want to enable the VNC Server.Click on the Configuration tab and navigate it to security profile. This is really good for VMware administrators that no need to provide the VCenter console access to windows and Unix/Linux administrators.Here we will see how we can enable VNC console for each virtual guests and how to access it using VNC-Viewer.ġ. So that you can take the virtual machine consoles using any VNC viewer and no need to login to VSphere Client for any guest OS consoles.

In VMware ESXi 5.5 ,you can use VNC client to connect virtual hardware console for Solaris,Linux and windows guest operating systems by enabling VNC server.

Vmware vnc connection