VMware Converter Standalone 4.0

royce2020 · 11-22-2010, 02:07 PM

I have just installed VMware Converter Standalone 4.0 on a Debian Etch server (that also runs VMware server). This is a very striped down system, and it dosen't have X.
I can controll the converter from a windows client (or a linux box with X on it), but not the server itself.

Do any of you know how to controll the converter from the commend line? What I realy want to do is controll it over SSH from a windows box, so X control is out of the question (and I don't want to install it on a server anyway).

Thanks for your help in advance.

paulsm4 · 11-22-2010, 02:20 PM

Interesting note:

Quote:

http://www.vm-net.co.uk/?p=1053

he stand alone version of VMware’s Converter 4.0.1 product apparently includes a web interface that is currently hidden or unfinished. It’s a well known fact that the product uses a web service to interact with the ESX hosts, but it would appear that VMware is developing a complete web user interface around it. At the present time the product only exposes a login form if you connect to the address: https://ipaddress/converter/ but several other functions are partially implemented, like for example the file upload facility that is handled by the FileInput.js component. It’s unclear why VMware is shipping this partially finished interface inside the product or if there are any firm plans or timescale to finish it but either way it looks interesting.

royce2020 · 11-22-2010, 04:09 PM

It is interesting, and I had actualy stumbled onto it. But my version must be a slightly diferent version to the one that this describes, as the web root for my server shows a page with links to download the client, and the /converter/ folder has a blank page in it.