Downloading the VMRC SDK

The VMware Remote Console (VMRC) software development kit is available on VMware Developer Center. You can log in using your My VMware credentials. Once there, click Home > SDK > VMRC SDK > Download. The SDK is a large ZIP file. Its installers directory contains Linux 32-bit and 64-bit bundle files, and a Windows executable, as discussed in Windows Plug-in.

The Web application you create with VMRC may install the remote console plug-in on first use. For example, the first time a browser connects to the vSphere Web Client and the user clicks Launch Console, the browser asks to install the plug-in.

To use VMRC, your Web application must first load the VMRC browser plug-in, then set up the property value constants and callback handler methods required by the VMRC API. After your Web application performs these initial steps, it can use the VMRC API methods to connect to a virtual machine and access the console and device functions.