[GRLUG] Walk-on VMWare

[Michael Mol]

On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 5:45 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Oct 2010, Michael Mol wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 4:36 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
>> > On Fri, 22 Oct 2010, Michael Mol wrote:
>> >
>> >> I don't know if it's common, but you can grant full control of, e.g.
>> >> avideo card to ESX if your hardware has an IOMMU.
>> >>
>> > If that is the case, how would one get to the ESX concole?
>>
>> The simplest approach I can think of would be to have multiple video
>> cards. One for the ESX console (your onboard should be fine for this),
>> and another for your preferred guest VM.
>>
> Sorry, not talking about building a new machine. .. the question is how to
> access the console on an existing installation.

If it's ESXi, and there's there a second video card in the machine,
plug the monitor in the other card.

If you don't know what it's running, though, put a machine on the
switch, run Wireshark. Look at the manufacturer it identifies the MAC
addresses of the guest VMs with.


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