How to access Vmware vSphere from Linux?

Question

linux

Has anyone managed to launch the VmWare vSphere console from under Linux?

The client works under Vine, sometimes crashes, and is buggy, but it works. The web client also works (for some reason in chrome and firefox, not in chromium), but without the console:
a) in Chrome it offers to download the plugin (bash script for installation), even if I have already installed it. The plugin is not visible in chrome
b) in Firefox opens the console in the web client, but after a while it writes

Unable to connect to the MKS: Failed to connect to server XX.XX.XX.XX:902

They write different things on the net: they suggest installing a freshplayerplugin (a flash from chrome appeared, nothing has changed, the web client just started to slow down more), old firefox, version 3.5 (sic!), It crashes on my libc (however, maybe I I’ll put it in chroot or lxc with the old libc), some write that VmWare does not officially support Linux for accessing the web client (why does it suggest downloading a bash script then?), others (some arch user) that everything works for him . Did you succeed?

You can, of course, reach the console from a local virtual machine, but I really don’t want to, because there is 4Gb on my working laptop, and I have to either buy more memory myself, for my money, or give a bunch of RAM to the virtual machine with Windows.

From what I have not tried yet: maybe it will somehow work from the web client in a Windows browser (what?) from under Wine?

PS iptables on the client is disabled

Answer 1

The console via WebClient worked in Firefox 33.0 after disabling SELinux (another shamanic action: removing FF settings from ~, and restarting FF once after a successful vsphere login)
By the way, is there any way to send a keyboard shortcut to the guest through the web client Ctrl-Alt-F2?
So far, the only idea is to disable the second virtual console locally

Answer 2

When opening the console, the browser connects directly to the esxi node. Perhaps traffic is being cut between you and a specific node.
You can also connect to the console using workstation.