What’s the Login User Name and Password for VMWare Server 2.0?
VMWare Server 2.0 (currently in Beta 2 release) has departed significantly from legacy VMWare Server 1.0. It’s still a free virtualization software to users to create, manage and run virtual machines, but instead of usual standalone desktop (or notebook laptop) based application, VMWare Server 2.0 now runs solely on web-based management user interface, plus many other new features, enhancements and improvements.
To log in to VMWare Server 2.0, users will have to access https://localhost:8333/ui/ or http://localhost:8222/ui/ for non-secure connection (the URL may takes the form of your computer name) with a web browser to come to VMware Infrastructure (VI) Web Access management interface, which is VMWare Server Console, normally simply call Web-UI. Don’t worry about your system doesn’t have a web server such as Apache or Microsoft IIS running, VMWare Server 2.0 install Tomcat web server in the background.
But users will come to a VI Credentials page asking for Login Name and Password, as shown in the screenshot below.
What login user name and password to use? This probably your first installation of VMWare Server 2.0, and even if you have installed VMWare Server 1.0 before, it never ask for creation of any user account or its user ID or password during installation of whatever versions. And searching up and down in Start Menu’s VMWare Server program folder doesn’t reveal any program to create or manage user’s login name for VMWare console too.
Actually, VMWare Infrastructure Web Access, and hence VMWare Server 2.0, uses user account of the operating system, i.e Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 and Linux distro. So to login to VMWare Server 2.0 Web Console, logon with an administrative account’s user name of Windows or Linux (Administrator or root) and the corresponding password. Note the password is a must. In Windows, most built-in Administrator account does not have password by default even after been enabled, and so a password must be assigned.
It’s possible to create and add another user account with administrator’s privileges specially for VMWare Server login purpose.
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May 11th, 2008 15:33
[...] VMWare Server Web Console user interface in a web browser. Users will then require to enter a Windows user name and password to login to VMWare Server web UI. However, when attempting to login with a Windows Vista user account with administrative [...]
September 3rd, 2008 22:39
Thanks for that it works well, pity VMware did not mention this when i first installed it.
September 13th, 2008 12:11
Sounds good, but no joy here. Ubuntu 8.04.1, vmware server2. Created a new user, with root access, and in root group. Still, do not have permission to login to vmware web access. Used defaults on vmware server install.
September 13th, 2008 12:56
Okay, edited /etc/vmware/hostd/authorization.xml replacing the user root with a username with root access. Tried restarting vmware server, but no joy. Rebooted Ubuntu, then firefox http://127.0.0.1:8222 (their default) and any user can now login to vmware using the new username/passwd in their auth file.
October 13th, 2008 21:36
Its not a lot to ask to be warned of this before installation, even for a free product. newsflash vmware, not everyone HAS the ability to make user accounts on corporate machines. personally, i think this is a moronic “feature”
October 16th, 2008 04:23
Two words: Virtual Box
Free, built by Sun, just works.
October 18th, 2008 00:12
Thanks Gerry, you pointed me in the right direction.
To restart you need to run
sudo /etc/init.d/vmware-mgmt restart
which controls the webaccess service
October 22nd, 2008 19:07
Thanks so much. I edited the authorization.xml file changing the “root” to my username and then did the restart mentioned by Alexander. Got right it.
October 23rd, 2008 02:26
I tried to change the authorization.xml from to my root login and it keeps replacing the root even though I am editing it from sudo gedit. Can someone show me what the .xml should look like, maybe I do not quit understand which “root”s to replace. I am kinda new to this as well.
Thanks
November 17th, 2008 16:34
hola…
Tengo un grande problema al iniciar el VMWare en el navegador de internet, no me da los campos para loguearme y entrara a la administracion del software, es decir, la pàgina queda totalemente en blanco y de ninguna manera aparecera el loguin. Esto me paso al poco tiempo de haber instalado el server y aun no he podido encontrar la solucion.
November 29th, 2008 22:34
[...] with the sudden appearance of a login box which was never needed on the old vm manager, and required me to create a new Windows admin user!) but eventually I got to a stage where the new vm image would at least load into the [...]