Hi.
I ran into a problem today I can't figure out, and searching some of the fora, it seems others have had this problem with no obvious fix. So here's another attempt at flushing this out.
I am unable to open a console window properly for some VMs. I get a "black screen" that appears to be unresponsive to keyboard and mouse. However, investigation shows:
1) keystrokes and mouse are making it to the VM. (This was verified by someone else who is able to open the console normally and saw the keystrokes and mouse actions I was generating).
2) I'm able to open consoles fine on one vCenter, but not another.
3) I'm having the same problem whether using the windows vSphere client or the Web Client, so it's not just a browser issue.
4) I'm seeing the problem for all VMs in the one setup, whether running windows, or linux.
5) It's just me (my particular setup), as two colleagues are able to open consoles to the same machines just fine.
6) I'm doing this from Windows 7 running under Linux KVM (RHEL). Using FireFox 31.1.0
7) If I run Chrome directly under linux (on same laptop) I can open a console successfully, but since a chrome console doesn't pass control characters, that solution is't really a useable option for me.
8) Running vCenter/ESXi 5.5
Poking around:
> VSphere 5.5 VM Console screen black | VMware Communities
> https://communities.vmware.com/message/2363368
The solution there involved IPv6, but we are not using IPv6 and none of the machines in question have IPv6 addresses.
Other related reports point to the DNS entries needing to resolve properly, which is not the case here (plus, you typically get errors in that case).
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Thomas