There are times that I’m using remote desktop to connect to a machine running vmware, and I need to user of the virtual machines running inside vmware. The display refresh is often slow in this case, and the mouse emulation seems to get a little confused as well. It would be cool if vmware itself provided a vnc / remote desktop server you could connect to, instead of having to mess around with turning on remote access within the virtual machine itself (which, if your virtual machine’s networking is set to NAT or a host-only private network, is complicated or impossible to make work).
You can do this. Search VMWare’s support for VNC. Simple mods to the vmware config file:
RemoteDisplay.vnc.enabled = TRUE
RemoteDisplay.vnc.port = 9200
RemoteDisplay.vnc.password = passw0rd
Sweet!