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Downloading and Installing the standalone VMware Remote Console (VMRC) in vSphere 5.x and 6.x (2091284). (VMRC) as a standalone application for Windows and Mac OS that can be used in conjunction with VMware vSphere Web Client which is bundled with vCenter Server 5.5 Update 2b and later versions. (VMRC) plug-in for Mozilla Firefox.

VMware Remote Console | 16 November 2017 | Build 7096020

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Last Document Update: 16 November 2017

What’s in the Release Notes

These release notes cover the following topics.

What’s New

VMware Remote Console 10.0.2 includes the following changes.

  • Support for Windows Server 2016 and macOS 10.13
  • The Windows installer changed from .msi to .exe format.
  • The VMware Remote Console project now uploads its corresponding Open Source Disclosure Package (ODP) as part the release process.
  • The zlib compression library is updated from 1.2.8 to 1.2.11.
  • The libcurl data transfer library is updated from 7.51.0 to 7.56.1.
  • OpenSSL is updated from 1.0.2k to 1.0.2m.
  • There are additional fixes as described in Fixed Issues.

Compatibility and Installation

You can install this release on the following host operating systems.

64-bit and 32-bit Windows

  • Windows Server 2016
  • Windows Server 2012 R2
  • Windows Server 2012
  • Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
  • Windows Server 2008 R2
  • Windows 10
  • Windows 8.1
  • Windows 8
  • Windows 7

Mac

  • macOS 10.13
  • macOS 10.12
  • Apple OS X 10.11
  • Apple OS X 10.10

Linux

  • VMware Remote Console generally runs on the same Linux offerings as VMware Workstation versions that are released around the same time.
  • For more information, see the VMware Compatibility Guide.

Documentation

See the following guides for information about installing and using VMware Remote Console.

VMware Remote Console for vSphere
VMware Remote Console for vRealize Automation

Fixed Issues

The following issues are fixed in this release.

Windows

  • Corrects a USB driver from VMware Remote Console 10.0.0 and 10.0.1 that had not been signed by Microsoft.
  • Allows the Windows USB arbitrator service to start after VMware Remote Console is installed.
  • The issue only occurred on 64-bit Windows 8 without a certain runtime environment. The runtime environment is not part of Windows 8 by default but might or might not be present depending on other applications.

Mac

  • Corrects issues that prevented the Mac installer from completing and required you to launch the application again to finish.

Known Issues

The following issues are known to affect this release.

General Issues

  • Cannot connect to virtual machines hosted on ESXi 5.1
  • ESXi 5.1 does not support TLS versions greater than 1.0. The following error occurs.
    Unable to connect to the MKS: Could not connect to pipe . pipevmware-authdpipe within retry period.
    Workaround: Configure VMware Remote Console to use TLS 1.0.
  1. Open the VMware Remote Console configuration file in a text editor.
    Windows
    C:ProgramDataVMwareVMware Remote Consoleconfig.ini
    Linux
    /etc/vmware/config
    Mac
    /Library/Preferences/VMware Remote Console/config
  2. Add or edit the TLS protocols entry. Include TLS 1.0.
    tls.protocols=tls1.0,tls1.1,tls1.2
  3. Save and close the configuration file.
  • NIC disconnects from vSphere Distributed Switch (vDS) portgroup
  • You try to edit virtual machine network settings by connecting through VMware Remote Console, and your receive an Invalid device network adapter error.
    Workaround: Follow the guidelines in Knowledge Base Article 2151096.
  • VMware Remote Console URL message
  • Starting VMware Remote Console from a Windows or Linux terminal session causes the following message to appear:
    This application must be launched from a vmrc URL
    The message appears when you omit the URL in the command. By design, you start VMware Remote Console from a client such as vSphere or vRealize Automation, or with a vmrc:// URL.
    For help with the VMware Remote Console command line, enter:
    Windows
    vmrc.exe -?
    Linux
    vmrc — help
    Mac
    not available

Windows

  • Keyboard hook timeout message
  • When connecting to a virtual machine, VMware Remote Console might display the following message:
    The keyboard hook timeout value is not set to the value recommended by VMware Remote Console
    By design, you click OK to update the timeout value, then log out of Windows to ensure that the update takes effect.
  • HCmon driver error
  • Installing VMware Remote Console on a system where other VMware applications have been installed might result in the following error:
    Failed to install the HCmon driver
    Workaround: Go to Task Manager, Services tab, and stop the VMUSBArbService. Then, proceed with installation.
    Alternatively, launch the .exe installer from a command prompt window that you opened with Administrator privileges.

Mac

  • VMware Remote Console does not launch on macOS 10.13
  • The Mac displays a System Extension Blocked message when you attempt to launch VMware Remote Console on macOS 10.13.
    Workaround: As a user with administrator privileges, go to System Preferences > Security & Privacy. Under the General tab, near the bottom, you see a message about VMware software being blocked. Click Allow. For more information, see Knowledge Base Article 2151770.
  • Device options
  • There are device-related options that are not available when running VMware Remote Console on a Mac. For example, you cannot add new devices, or display sound card settings. Unavailable Mac options are noted where applicable in the documentation.

Linux

  • Updates do not download and install
  • You click a vmrc:// link to launch VMware Remote Console from the browser. When you try to download and install VMware Remote Console updates, you receive the following error during download.
    An error occurred while reading/writing files. Try again later and if the problem persists, contact your system administrator
    Workaround: Do one of the following.
  • Launch VMware Remote Console from the command line, with a minimum syntactically viable URL. For example:
    sudo vmrc vmrc://x/?moid=x
  • Download the update from https://www.vmware.com/go/download-vmrc and apply it manually.
  • After using one of the workarounds, the update installs, but VMware Remote Console displays the following error:
    Install of VMware Remote Console failed. Contact VMware Support or your system administrator.
    Close and relaunch VMware Remote Console. Go to Help > About VMware Remote Console to verify that the update installed.
  • VMware Remote Console on Debian 8.7.1 does not open remote virtual machines
  • You successfully install VMware Remote Console on Debian 8.7.1, but it does not launch. When run from the console, the following message appears:
    Loop on signal 11.
    In addition, the log file under /tmp/vmware-$USER/ contains a panic and backtrace.
    Workaround: Use VMware Remote Console 9.0.
  • VMware Remote Console on Ubuntu 17.04 does not display certificates for viewing
  • You use VMware Remote Console on Ubuntu 17.04 to connect to an ESXi host that has an invalid or untrusted security certificate, and a certificate warning appears. When you click to view the certificate for inspection, an empty dialog appears, and you can only close the dialog.
    Workaround: None
  • Wayland protocol is not supported
  • VMware Remote Console requires Xorg and does not install or run under Wayland sessions. Installation errors occur on newer operating systems that use Wayland, such as Fedora 25.
    Workaround: None
  • Help link does not resolve
  • You click the Help option from within VMware Remote Console and receive a file not found error.
    Workaround: Open a browser directly to www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vmrc_pubs.html
  • Virtual machines automatically power on
  • VMware Remote Console automatically powers on virtual machines when connecting to virtual machines that are powered off.
    Workaround: None
  • VMware Remote Console automatically closes
  • VMware Remote Console automatically closes when the remote virtual machine shuts down.
    Workaround: None
  • VMware Workstation or VMware Workstation Player
  • VMware Remote Console cannot simultaneously be installed on the same machine as VMware Workstation or VMware Workstation Player.
    Workaround: None

Active8 years, 5 months ago

I have VMware Server working on a server running Ubuntu Server 10.04. After many troubles getting it going, I have one virtual machine running and I’m now stuck with a browser issue.

Firefox won’t load VMware Infrastructure Web Access. When going to https://<ip-of-server>:8333 it shows a blank page, the title of which says 'Loading...' while it is quite apparent (as with the status bar) that it has finished loading. I have tried this on both Firefox 3.6 and Firefox 4.

Chrome doesn’t have the VMware Remote Console Plug-in available, so it isn’t even an option. However the VMware Infrastructure Web Access does load on chrome at https://<ip-of-server>:8333.

I was able to install Internet Explorer 7 through PlayOnLinux and I did get IE7 running. When I go to https://<ip-of-server>:8333 it gives me the same certificate error that chrome gives but when I click on 'Continue to this website (not recommended)' it just seems to refresh the page... doesn't actually take me past this error to the console.

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Right now I’m stuck for browsers to be able to get the VMware Remote Console Plug-in. Firefox would be the best option as I’m not much of a fan of IE7 and Chrome doesn’t seem like an option unless VMware does something about it.

If anyone has any ideas please let me know. Any help is appreciated!

EDIT: If you require more information please ask. I’m not sure what else to include.

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3 Answers

The solution is to use Firefox 3.5 or below (link to old Firefox downloads), since Firefox 3.6 or higher doesn’t work with the VMware remote console plugin — since this is already not getting security updates, it’s best to install it separately to the main Firefox, and use a new profile. To avoid messing up any Ubuntu version of firefox, just untar the Firefox 3.5 tar.gz under something like /opt/firefox-3.5

Here’s a shell script that invokes this Firefox with the right profile, even if you have a more recent Firefox running (via the -no-remote):

After you are done with the console, it’s best to close the Firefox 3.5 instance, otherwise links clicked in other applications may open in the 3.5 instance.

A different partial solution is to use VNC to login to the VM once it’s started some other way — this doesn’t give you all the remote console features so you’d need to use the VMware shell commands on the host to manage the VM. See this HOWTO — however, this doesn’t support VNC over SSL so SSH tunnels are recommended.

VMware Server 2.0 is reaching end of support in June 2011, and there haven’t been updates for a long time to work with newer Firefox versions, so it is probably time to look for alternatives.

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I’ve encountered this problem many times when working with VMware Server, and it is one of the reasons that I try to avoid Server these days and use ESXi as much as possible. But if you really need server, here are some of the things that I’ve found help (and I realize that some of them probably won’t work for you, or don’t apply, because you’ve already tried them).

  1. Make sure that the correct hostname is in /etc/hosts in Ubuntu for at least the localhost (127.0.0.1) entry.
  2. Try a version of Firefox that was around when Server was last released/updated.
  3. Make sure you installed following the instructions here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VMware/Server, including the patches that are listed as one of the steps. Note that the instructions for 10.04 are the same as the 9.10 instructions, and the link to the patches may be out of date (but this one still works for me: http://radu.cotescu.com/how-to-install-vmware-server-ubuntu-fedora-opensuse/).

Jed DanielsJed Daniels

Not sure what IE7 for Linux actually is built around, but I know I’ve experienced issues after upgrading Firefox on some of my Linux machines. The plugin used for both Server and ESXi is incompatible with newer versions of Firefox (NPAPI change?). Read http://communities.vmware.com/message/1462526 for similar issues described.

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How I got around it was just installing a second version of Firefox (3.5) on my machine and using that for accessing the server where ESXi was installed.

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