The VMRC (VM Remote Console) has gone through several transitions from initially being available as a standalone Windows application to an integrated browser based plugin with the release of the vSphere Web Client. In the latest, a new standalone VMRC has been re-introduced to provide an alternative way to launch a VM console. The reason for this is due to the deprecated and eventual removal of based plugin support from all modern web browsers which the current VMRC implementation leverages. Here is a quick excerpt from the vSphere 5.5 Update 2b release notes: Inability to open virtual machine console using Google Chrome browser when NPAPI support is deprecated When the NPAPI support in Google Chrome is deprecated, the virtual machine console provided in the vSphere Client Integration Plugin might no longer function when the Chrome browser is updated.

As a result, you might be unable to open the virtual machine console using the Google Chrome browser and you might not be able to connect to devices. UPDATE (10/21/14) - Looks like the standalone VMRC has just been made available and you can now download it by either following the link in the vSphere Web Client if you are on vSphere 5.5 Update 2b OR simply by going to UPDATE (10/12/14) - It looks like the standalone VMRC is currently not available for download just yet.

VMware Remote Console Plug-in and VMware Infrastructure Web Access (Firefox. Work with the VMware remote console plugin. To install it separately to.

You can continue using the existing methods to connect to your VM Console, the new Standalone VMRC is NOT required but the links have been put in place to proactively get ready for NPAPI deprecation (more details below). You can subscribe to which will be updated when the download is available. UPDATE (05/31/15) - If you are connecting directly to an ESXi host you can either use the vSphere API to query for the VM MoRef ID or you can easily pull it by running the following command directly in the ESXi Shell: vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms The deprecation of NPAPI support is nothing new and has actually been communicated by all major web browsers for quite some time now. To ensure that VMware customers are not affected when this change goes into effect, a new standalone VMRC is being introduced to preempt the upcoming change and provides a new way of launching a VM console using the vSphere Web Client as seen in the screenshot below. To be able to open a VM Console using the new standalone VMRC, you will of course need to have it installed first. You can find the link to the download on VMware.com but there is also a direct link provided on the VM Summary page in the vSphere Web Client.

Billa 2009 Movie Hindi Dubbed Dailymotion. In addition to the new standalone VMRC, you will still be able to use the existing method as well as the HTML5 based VM console. The HTML5 console continues to work if you do not have CIP (Client Integration Package) installed on your Windows system or if you are running on a Mac OS X system. I am sure many of you are probably asking when will there be Mac OS X version of VMRC? I know I definitely am 🙂 The good news is that this is being worked on and hopefully we will see a Mac OS X version in the very near future.

Furthermore, the new standalone VMRC also includes some nice enhancements that I know some of you have been asking for, especially those that have used the previous standalone VMRC application. The new VMRC can now be directly launched using the following two URI methods: vmrc://[USERNAME]@[VC]/?moid=[VM-MOREF-ID] vmrc://clone:[VC-TICKET]@[VC]/?moid=[VM-MOREF-ID] Here is a screenshot of the standalone VMRC application: The first method accepts basic authentication using username/password, the vCenter Server address and the VM. Here is an example of what that would look like: C: Program Files (x86) VMware VMware Remote Console vmrc.exe vmrc://root@reflex.primp-industries. Aakhir Kaun Tv Serial. com/?moid=vm-37 The second method accepts a vCenter Server session ticket which you can generate by using vSphere API method. A quick way to test this example is by using the vSphere MOB and making a call to acquireCloneTicket using the following URL and then specifying the ticket as seen in the example below. C: Program Files (x86) VMware VMware Remote Console vmrc.exe vmrc://clone:cst-VCT-5244c230-f59b-75c4-f4e9-42--tp-DF-A9-72-7B-32-15-48-44-E0-E1-01-6D-F5-DB-59-E4-AC-35-F1-DA@reflex.primp-industries.com/?moid=vm-37 With the new URI handler, you can automatically associate it with the standalone VMRC application which means you can type this into a browser or into a Windows explorer and it will automatically launch VMRC. The other nice thing about the new standalone VMRC is if you would like to reduce the complexity of getting a regular use connected to their desktop, you can easily use the standalone VMRC and dynamically generating a link for your end users to access their VMs without ever exposing them to the underlying vSphere infrastructure. I suspect there will be some really interesting use cases for the new standalone VMRC and the VMRC team will continue to iterate to make it better based on customer feedback.

Hello William, thanks for the great article. Did you get multi monitor support working?

We have setup a VM that has enough video memory and set the amount of avialable displays to two. If we use the cycle monitor action in the vmrc client, we get following error: “This virtual machine cannot use multiple monitors for the following reasons: – The host’s monitor layout has changed since the virtual machine was powered on. You must power the virtual machine off and back on to use multiple monitors in Full Screen mode. Please see VMware Player Help for more information” Any ideas, on how to solve this. Of cource we rebooted the machine several times Best regards, Ingo.

Nice blog; lots of help as always 🙂 One question though is since the VMID (VM MoRef Id) is dynamic (changes with vMotion, reset VM etc, how are we assuring the URL remains constant? My customer needs console access and I am still hesitant to use standalone VMRC with VM MoRef Id method because I fear the VMID will change and break my URL. Before I try and script something as a workaround, can someone please share what are you currently doing to avoid this issue from happening? Or has anyone faced this yet? Thanks a bunch in advance 🙂.

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