[Tfug] Virtualization

[Shawn Nock]

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Shawn Nock wrote:
 > It uses TCP 902 (by default), for some reason on my most recent SuSE
> install it told me that 902 was in use (not so far as I could tell...)
> and that it would be using 904 instead (which worked fine).

Hmm... I did some supplementary checking. When I looked at open
descriptors for VMware processes (when connected to localhost), it opens
only named pipes and AF_UNIX sockets for IPC. So as long as you are
running the console on the server machine, you shouldn't need any
firewall openings. 902 (or 904) is just to accept remote console
connections.

I suppose it could be possible that permissions are too strict on the
named pipes or sockets. Try running VMware console as root, if you have
success there, perhaps some permissions tweaking is in order.

Shawn
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Shawn Nock (OpenPGP: 0xB64200E1)
Unix Systems Group; CCIT
University of Arizona
nock at email.arizona.edu
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