Comments on: VMware VIC 2.5 and Server 2.0 Beta 1

By: mukesh

mukesh — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:35:48 +0000

VMware Infrastructure Client could not establish initial connection with server “VC server” Details: The server could not interpret the communication from the client

By: Will

Will — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:55:16 +0000

Alternatively, you can reconfigure VMware to use port 902 for remote administration with http on 80, https on 443.

Then you can use the VI Client without having to add a specific port.

By: davide77

davide77 — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:05:39 +0000

Hi Adam,

I found THE SOLUTION! :D

To connect with vic to vmware server 2.0 you need to add the :8333 to the hostname, so the magic is, for example, 192.168.1.10:8333 and the connection works.

Best regards,
Davide

By: Adam Bell

Adam Bell — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 03:56:15 +0000

Hi R,

Tbh after the hassles that I had with Server 2.0 I switched to the 6.5 Workstation beta.

I’ve always preferred the Snapshot Manager available in workstation too, but Server is free, so it’s always handy to play with ….

Hope you found a solution to your problem!

Cheers,
Adam

By: r

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:25:41 +0000

Is there any way to change and forward this port? Used to be able to in 1.0…….

By: staticsirupflo

staticsirupflo — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:46:47 +0000

Hey,

it’s definitely the SSL port (e.g. 443) to connect to. Thanks to Chrissy!

By: Chrissy

Chrissy — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 01:28:27 +0000

Just as an FYI, I just did a netstat and I’m connected to the VMWare server from my workstation on port 443 a few times and 902 once. When I loaded up https://myserver, it redirected me to /ui/ then said service unavailable. So perhaps VIC does use port 443 still.

By: Chrissy

Chrissy — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 01:15:33 +0000

Hey Adam,
I believe that the port is on 902, at least it is on the Linux version. I hope it would be the same on Windows! Not sure how that will help, though..since the firewall is disabled on both. I’ve not run VMware Server 2 on Windows but the Web interface seems just as horrible as it is in Linux, eh?

Good luck!