[Bug 24079] VSphere Client 4.1: Unable to connect to server

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24079





--- Comment #5 from Anastasius Focht <focht at gmx.net>  2010-08-22 14:08:21 ---
Hello,

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Setting up a server is quick - you can run it on physical hardware from a USB
pen drive. The problem will be getting the hardware which is supported if you
do not have a server available as VMWare is really strict on what hardware it
supports without hacking.
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thanks for the hint. USB pen HOWTO:

1. extract "imagedd.bz2“ from
"VMware-VMvisor-Installer-4.1.0-260247.x86_64.iso"
2. bunzip2 "imagedd.bz2“
3. sudo dd if=imagedd of=/dev/sdb
4. insert in some computer, boot from usb and pray ;-)

I used a another notebook (core2duo, 3 GiB RAM) and the kernel image starts and
the server gets dhcp address.
After that it sits there and waits for client connects.

The client communicates using https protocol with server.