Tag Archives: vmware  VMware ESXi 5 – VNC to a guest  One of the
more annoying things is that by default one have to use the
vSphere client to access the console of a guest.  Some people
have decided to modify the firewall on the host to get direct
access to the guest, but there is a simpler way to accomplish
this.    1. enable ssh key authentication on the host   2. add
the following to the guest configuration (needed no matter what)
RemoteDisplay.vnc.enabled = “true”     RemoteDisplay.vnc.port =
“<port number for the vnc server>”   3. configure your vnc
client to use ssh, for example with Chicken of the VNC:
Host: <your vmware esxi host>     Port: the port number
specified for the guest     [X] Tunnel over SSH     SSH Host:
root@<your vmware esxi host>  WMware ESXI – suspend all guests
I have an VMware ESXI 5 which I used for testing things, but I
don’t want it to run all the time, and using the vSphere Client
to stop all the VM’s and then stop the ESXI server is a bit too
much effort.  So I figure