Comments on: What’s the Login User Name and Password for VMWare Server 2.0?

By: Etivaldo Júnior

Etivaldo Júnior — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:21:03 +0000

I appreciate the tip, it worked.

Thank you very much.

By: Zakaria Desai

Zakaria Desai — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:23:53 +0000

Thanks for the tip. It worked

By: pppp

pppp — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:21:38 +0000

just add user to vmware group and working fine…

By: Suri

Suri — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:52:33 +0000

Thanku post 32

By: Praba

Praba — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 12:39:49 +0000

tks a lot

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:01:33 +0000

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.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:55:11 +0000

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)

By: WillBeen

WillBeen — Tue, 19 May 2009 20:21:50 +0000

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” !

By: Randy

Randy — Tue, 19 May 2009 01:16:58 +0000

Thank you so much!! I was wandering really hard were did vmware asked me for a username and password!

By: jrj

jrj — Thu, 14 May 2009 13:44:11 +0000

This web interface is such a stupid idea from VMware … aargh. Anyway, thanks to the author of this blog.

By: geek

geek — Mon, 11 May 2009 15:13:46 +0000

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.

By: warrio

warrio — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 20:33:44 +0000

defaut user=root
password you reset password root

#sudo passwd root

By: dede

dede — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:53:51 +0000

Your system admin login and password

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:10:54 +0000

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?

By: Webagentur

Webagentur — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:56:58 +0000

What is the admin account for the vmware? I can it not find.

By: car floor jacks

car floor jacks — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 12:16:25 +0000

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?