How to Connect to a Linux VM using VNC in VMware Workstation

If you don't want to remotely control your VMs using the VMware Workstation console or want to figure out the network settings on your host and virtual machines, then you can connect to your VMs using a VNC connection instead. All you need to do is enable the setting on each VM and make sure to use different port numbers if you are configuring this on more than one virtual machine.

You can use any VNC client you like such as RealVNC or Tight VNC for example. You can also password protect the connection. If you use this for more than one VM you will get a socket bind already in use error meaning you need to use a different port number for your other VMs. 5900 is the default port so you can use that if you are only going to be using VNC for one VM but if you have others then you will need to change the port from the default 5900 to something else for any additional virtual machines you are going to configure. You can also view the VNC connections for each VM from the settings menu.

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[MrAIProgrammer]

is there a benifit to using VNC instead of managing the VMS directly on the vmware workstation pro app?

[rishupatel]

How can I access this on my local network..
like from different computer on same network