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The VMBackup utility provides a graphical user interface that can easily be ran locally on a Linux Virtualization Server. However, since it is an X-Windows application it is also possible to set up a Microsoft Windows system to remotely control VMbackup as well.

In order for this to work, the Windows system must have an XWindows server, which will act as the display client for VMBackup running on the remote system. Fortunately, there is one that is freely available called XMing.

The process for setting up XMing on the Windows system to run the VMbackup GUI for a remote Linux host on the Windows system, is as follows:

1. Download and Install the XMing package available at: http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?group_id=156984&filename=Xming-6-9-0-31-setup.exe
2. Download and Install the XMing font package available at: http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?group_id=156984&filename=Xming-fonts-7-3-0-15-setup.exe
3. If you do not already have PuTTY installed, Download and Install the Portable PuTTY package, available at: http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?group_id=156984&filename=Xming-portable-PuTTY-7-3-0-17-setup.exe
4. Set up an XLaunch Icon for vmbackup
   1. Double click on the XLaunch icon
   2. Select “Multiple Windows” and click the next button
   3. Select “Start Program” and click the next button
   4. In the “Start Program” field put “/usr/bin/kdesu /usr/bin/vmbackup”. Select Using Putty, put the name of the VMware server with VMbackup installed in the “Connect to computer” field, put the userid of the user account in the “Login as user” field, then click next
   5. Click next to accept the defaults for clipboard management
   6. Click the “Save configuration” button
   7. Save the file to your desktop
   8. Click Finish
5. Double click on the new VMbackup icon to run VMbackup on the remote virtualization server. It will ask for two logins, the first is to login to the remote server and the second is to obtain the Administrator (root) privileges that VMbackup requires.