Serving my VMs?

Anyone have a good solution to serve up my VMware Workstation VMs over the LAN to a tablet running Windows 8.1? Ideally, I could access my lab VMs on the tablet, while someone else is using the VM host computer for something else. Doable?

edit: I should clarify, I mean access them as if I was sitting at them, I know I can SSH in, but I'd like to access them as if local.

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slotzero

Are they Windows VMs? I would think a Windows tablet would have an RDP client?

ratbuddy

There's 2008R2, 2012R2, Centos, Ubuntu Server, a Nexpose appliance, and ESXi, so far. I'm hoping for something like the built in VMware Workstation Server functionality, but I don't have a second copy of Workstation to run on the tablet. If I have to, I'll work up shortcuts for seperate RDP/SSH/whatever sessions, I was just hoping for something tailored to this application

slotzero

Understood. Can you run the vSphere web client on the tablet?

ratbuddy

Nope, well, maybe, but the VMs aren't in ESXi. You got me on the right track though. I enabled server mode in Workstation, installed WSX, and opened the proper ports in the firewall. Now, I can access all the VMs which are served as web pages by WSX. Sweet.

No, more than sweet. This is friggin' awesome. I'll make a howto video tomorrow when my new camera battery gets here

slotzero

That is awesome!