How to run VMware ESX WebAccess plugin in Firefox under CentOS 5.3
Background:
Accessing VMware ESX via website (webAccess) is easy. Using IE under Windows, installation and execution of the plugin encounters no problems. But installing the Firefox plugin under CentOS, while this doesn’t show any problems, getting the virtual console to come up is a different matter. The main issue here is that the console plugin is looking for one particular library, the libXcomposite package. Installing this package would now let you open up the virtual console.
Troubleshooting:
1. Go to ~/.mozilla/firefox/
2. run ./vmware-vmrc
3. will print out an error referring to a missing libXcomposite.so.1
4. running yum whatprovides libXcomposite.so.1 will provide you with the correct package name to install