[KLUG Members] VMware from remote?

[Adam Bultman]

I can do this, I think...

If I do:
 X :1 &
export DISPLAY=:1
vmware blah blah

It pops up X in a new virtual terminal (F8 for me), then I start vmWare in
there with no window manager. Works great, but seems to pop it out of full
screen mode when I switch Virtual Terminals. Is tihs what you were looking
for, or something else?

 -- Adam Bultman
adam@glaven.org
[ http://www.glaven.org ]

On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, Adam Williams6 wrote:

> I have VMware workstation 3.0 on my workstation at the office with an
> instance on NT4.0sp5  that I use for diagnostics.
>
> On the workstation I can
> "vmware -X /usr/local/vmware/win32/NT4/3/winNT.cfg" and the instance boots
> and runs in full screen mode without any fuss,  I only have to look at the
> VMware window for a couple of seconds.  Then Ctrl-Alt-F3 is WinNT and
> Ctrl-Alt-F4 is GNOME (Ctrl-Alt-F1/F2 are console screens).  I have the
> best of all worlds.  (And occasionally Ctrl-Alt-F5 is a web server, and
> Ctrl-Alt-F6 is a middle tier server, while Ctrl-Alt-F7 is a database
> server.  This is great stuff,  Hey, where did all the RAM go!!!).
>
> Anyway the "problem" is that one has to have a $DISPLAY for all this work.
> I'd like to logout of the NT instance and out of GNOME while leaving the
> NT instance (or others) running.  Especially since I can access the NT
> instance via VNC.  Ideally I'd like to be able to ssh into the workstation
> and start an instance.
>
> I anyone has an ideas how to whack VMware's UI or simply fake-it-out,  I'm
> all ears.
>
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