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VMWare Console from the web broken on Ubuntu 10.x 64 bit, so call it directly

Posted by on 10-Oct-10 No comments

Not rocket surgery but useful none the less, if you have upgraded to 64 bit or Ubuntu 10.x and found that you can no longer connect to your VMWare Server console in Firefox don’t get too bummed. The VMWare server will still let you install the plugin, it just will keep failing saying that the connection timed out…

So go ahead and install the console as usual and we will go ahead and call the vmware console extension directly and circumvent Firefox all together and avoid the issue :)

It’s pretty easy the executable is located inside your firefox profile directory, you just need to mark it and a few supporting files executable so it will run and voila!

This an example from one of my boxes.


sgw@sobek:~$ chmod -R +x .mozilla/firefox/iez6qqlx.default/extensions/VMwareVMRC@vmware.com/

sgw@sobek:~$ .mozilla/firefox/iez6qqlx.default/extensions/VMwareVMRC@vmware.com/plugins/vmware-vmrc

Reference:

http://communities.vmware.com/message/968826

VMWare server, Ubuntu, and Firefox sitting in a tree..

Posted by on 07-Jul-10 No comments

Well if only they were getting along then I would not have this problem… did some upgrades and voila! I can’t get access to the vm web console, here are a few errors that I was seeing.

...
[2010-07-24 14:46:44.704 'Proxysvc' 140416009636112 warning] SSL Handshake on client connection failed: SSL Exception:
[2010-07-24 14:46:52.709 'Proxysvc' 140416010967312 warning] SSL Handshake on client connection failed: SSL Exception: error:1
40D9115:SSL routines:SSL_GET_PREV_SESSION:session id context uninitialized
[2010-07-24 14:46:52.711 'Proxysvc' 140416011495696 warning] SSL Handshake on client connection failed: SSL Exception: error:1
40D9115:SSL routines:SSL_GET_PREV_SESSION:session id context uninitialized
...
[2010-07-24 14:50:30.990 'Proxysvc' 140416010967312 warning] SSL Handshake on client connection failed: SSL Exception:
[2010-07-24 14:50:58.918 'Proxysvc Req00002' 140416010967312 warning] PendingServerStrm: client write-completion error: SSL Ex
ception: error:00000001:lib(0):func(0):reason(1)
...
[2010-07-24 14:51:16.904 'Proxysvc' 140416010701072 warning] SSL Handshake on client connection failed: SSL Exception:
[2010-07-24 14:51:16.909 'Proxysvc' 140416073320720 warning] SSL Handshake on client connection failed: SSL Exception:
[2010-07-24 14:51:16.910 'Proxysvc' 140416009902352 warning] SSL Handshake on client connection failed: SSL Exception:
[2010-07-24 14:51:16.922 'Proxysvc' 140416010701072 warning] SSL Handshake on client connection failed: SSL Exception:
[2010-07-24 14:51:16.923 'Proxysvc' 140416073320720 warning] SSL Handshake on client connection failed: SSL Exception:
[2010-07-24 14:51:16.924 'Proxysvc' 140416011495696 warning] SSL Handshake on client connection failed: SSL Exception:
[2010-07-24 14:51:16.925 'Proxysvc' 140416012290320 warning] SSL Handshake on client connection failed: SSL Exception:
[2010-07-24 14:51:16.925 'Proxysvc' 140416009902352 warning] SSL Handshake on client connection failed: SSL Exception:
[2010-07-24 14:51:16.926 'Proxysvc' 140416011495696 warning] SSL Handshake on client connection failed: SSL Exception:
...

And I am not alone
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-946973.html
http://support.mozilla.com/nl/forum/1/564314

Turns out it is Firefox 3.6, in the update the default setting for SSL 2 is off, easy fix, go to about:config and switch security.enable_ssl2 to true.

Thank you other people for figuring out all my problems before I even have them :)