Specifications

CHAPTER 2 Installing VMware GSX Server
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Installing the VMware Virtual Machine Console on a Linux Host
The steps below describe an installation of the VMware Virtual Machine Console on a
Red Hat Linux host from a CD-ROM. If you downloaded the software, the steps are the
same except that you start from the directory where you saved the installer file you
downloaded, not from the CD. If you are using a different Linux distribution, some
commands may be different.
You can download the VMware Virtual Machine Console installer from the VMware
Management Interface or find it on the GSX Server installation CD-ROM in the Linux
client package. You can run this console on the GSX Server host or any Linux client.
To download the console from the management interface, see Downloading the
VMware Virtual Machine Console on page 111.
1. In a terminal window, if you have not done so already, become root so you can
carry out the installation steps.
su -
2. Mount the CD-ROM drive and change to the Client directory on the CD.
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
cd /mnt/cdrom/Client
3. Unzip the client installer archive to /tmp.
unzip VMware-gsx-server-linux-client-<xxxx>.zip -d
/tmp
(where <xxxx> is a series of numbers representing the version and build
numbers)
Caution: If you intend to install the VMware Virtual Machine Console from a tar
package, make sure the directory to which you plan to untar the tar archive does
not contain any files from a previous console tar installation.
4. Change to the /tmp directory.
cd /tmp
5. Do one of the following:
• Use the RPM installer. Run RPM specifying the installation file.
rpm -Uhv VMware-console-<xxxx>.i386.rpm
(where <xxxx> is a series of numbers representing the version and build
numbers)
• Use the tar installer. Complete the following steps.
a. Unpack the archive.
tar zxf VMware-console-<xxxx>.tar.gz