Hi,
I'm using vmware-server on a amd64 box (GNU/Linux, Debian unstable) and used to administer the server via vmware-server-console, usually from a remote host via ssh/X11 forwarding. Having switche from a i386 box to a new amd64 box, everything seems to be fine, even the VMX files are still working and I can start/stop the VMs via "vmrun". But vmware-console-server just looks...funny:
http://nerdbynature.de/bits/vmware/vmware-console-X11.png
http://nerdbynature.de/bits/vmware/vmware-console-VNC.png
I can connect to the server and I can \*guess* on what to click to setup/modify VMs but I cannot \*read* anything. As you can see, I've tried starting vmware-console via ssh/X11 and within a local vnc-session (the vncserver is the same where vmware-console and vmware-server is installed). When starting vmware-console I'm getting a few warnings/errors as documented in the .log files: http://nerdbynature.de/bits/vmware/
By specifying a few variables I was able to suppress those warning, but the unreadable fonts just won't go away.
I could imagine that it's not a vmware-console problem at all, but I don't know where else to look. Other X11/GTK applications are running fine. I just installed a 32bit firefox on the server and it's behaving just fine over ssh/X11, so my X11 display (Fedora Core 6, powerpc) should be OK.
If anyone has an idea as to what is going on here, please let me know!
Thanks,
Christian.