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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November 20th, 2009 01:21
I appreciate the tip, it worked.
Thank you very much.
November 18th, 2009 17:23
Thanks for the tip. It worked
August 21st, 2009 16:21
just add user to vmware group and working fine…
August 18th, 2009 18:52
Thanku post 32
August 1st, 2009 20:39
Hi
tks a lot
July 29th, 2009 03:01
Mathew – I couldn’t agree more. I’ve been a real fan of all things VMWare until now. I’m going to download VirtualBox, and remove VMware Server.
July 28th, 2009 09:55
VMware server is the worst program ever. I’d consider myself a fairly competent VM user having tried most of the main apps like VMware Player, Qemu, VirtualBox, etc. I’ve spent the last hour trying to get this garbage installed just to land on a subvertly installed TomCat server which I absolutely did not want.
Anyone else who’s completely let down by this VM app, just download the VMware Player and use EasyVMX.com and save yourself a lot of trouble. SOOOO MUCH EASIER.
P.S. or better yet, just use VirtualBox, since it’s faster, provides a user-friendly interface and it’s FREE (ie open source/free)
May 20th, 2009 04:21
I m using a Ubuntu distrib and I dont have a root password, so I found another solution to log with my user “will”.
Edit the file
/etc/vmware/hostd/authorization.xml
and edit the line :
root
so it becomes :
will
then restart vmware :
sudo service vmware restart
OK, you can log into user “will” !
May 19th, 2009 09:16
Thank you so much!! I was wandering really hard were did vmware asked me for a username and password!
May 14th, 2009 21:44
This web interface is such a stupid idea from VMware … aargh. Anyway, thanks to the author of this blog.
May 11th, 2009 23:13
Thanks for the post. I had to waste a lot of time figuring out the password, as this was the first time I am using VM server.
April 26th, 2009 04:33
defaut user=root
password you reset password root
#sudo passwd root
March 25th, 2009 17:53
Your system admin login and password
March 17th, 2009 07:10
I don’t have the root password to my linux box as we have LDAP set up. Any clue to how to bypass this login/password issue with VMware 2.0?
March 17th, 2009 00:56
What is the admin account for the vmware? I can it not find.
March 14th, 2009 20:16
I have to say, I can not agree with you in 100%, but it’s just my opinion, which indeed could be wrong.
p.s. You have a very good template for your blog. Where have you got it from?
March 14th, 2009 07:28
I really enjoy blogs like this, since I am a blog addict I will visit again soon.
March 11th, 2009 06:49
It really is amazing that some things never change
March 10th, 2009 08:05
Sancho, thankyou, creating a new ADmin user worked.
February 27th, 2009 12:07
Thanks for the great information. I will definitely be coming back.
February 17th, 2009 19:31
I am having a windows machine and all this did not work for me. I created a new windows user with administrator privileges. And bingo it worked. Not sure why. But I guess might help someone
February 17th, 2009 00:56
Ahhhhhh merci pour le login et le mot de passe pour se connecter à l’interface…c’est vachement bien documenté en plus sur le support de VMWare……
February 16th, 2009 06:24
Pedasos de putos como cargo credito en mi cel.
respondeme bien o te cojo…
Aaaaaaaah… m olvidaba, PUTOOOOOS
February 11th, 2009 07:57
Quick tip for Vista/Win 7 beta users:
None of the above worked for me, not using built in Administrator account, not prefixing domain or workgroup onto user id, not starting all unstarted VM services, not using unsecured port 8222 instead of secured 8333, nothing.
But when I added my renamed admin user to the __vmusers__ group (shouldn’t have been necessary I know!) and tried //MyMachineName:8306/ui instead, logged as as my renamed admin user with normal windows logon password, bingo! Just something to try if all else has failed.
Hey VMWare, sort your documentation out, this is almost unforgivable!
January 26th, 2009 10:59
I am using OpenSuse 10.2 and could not login even after modifying authorization.xml. I had to change the contents of /etc/pam.d;/vmware-authd to
auth include common-auth
account include common-account
Now I am able to login both as root and with my account.
January 19th, 2009 00:31
Just to be clear, this worked with Ubuntu host (which cannot directly login to root).
Replace root with your username on line 10 of: /etc/vmware/hostd/authorization.xml (ACEDataUser).”
sudo /etc/init.d/vmware-mgmt restart
This let me in.. thanks
January 16th, 2009 19:29
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January 8th, 2009 05:19
To echo everyone else, thanks for documenting what for some reason VMware decided not to. An obvious solution not put anywhere obvious within the user’s guide or FAQs.
For Vista users, if you want to use the built in administrator account, you must enable it and give it a password. Probably mentioned in the related article.
December 26th, 2008 01:22
Thanks, a lot, I was going nuts, trying to figure out, how to create a user name and password, it never cross my mind on using my windows credentials.
Keep up the good work.:)
December 24th, 2008 00:18
thanks a lot!
it amazes me how they haven’t mentioned it anywhere in UI or docs or readme or anywhere else.
December 18th, 2008 14:24
Thanks, I can login by using admintrator user name and it’s password.
December 16th, 2008 12:07
alexander
thanks! your suggestion worked for me. But wanted to work this with my admin login.
However i can continue my stuff now. Big thanks.
December 7th, 2008 00:04
Gracias por el aporte muyyyy bueno.. Lo andaba buscando.. sabes en donde puedo conseguir tutorias de ese programa? me parece muy interesante
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 [...]
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.
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
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 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 16th, 2008 04:23
Two words: Virtual Box
Free, built by Sun, just works.
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”
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.
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 3rd, 2008 22:39
Thanks for that it works well, pity VMware did not mention this when i first installed it.
May 11th, 2008 15:33
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