Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View

Table 3‑5. MSI Command-Line Options and MSI Properties
MSI Option or Property Description
/qn
Instructs the MSI installer not to display the installer wizard pages.
For example, you might want to install View Agent silently and use only default setup
options and features:
VMware-viewagent-y.y.y-xxxxxx.exe /s /v"/qn"
Alternatively, you can use the /qb option to display the wizard pages in a
noninteractive, automated installation. As the installation proceeds, the wizard pages
are displayed, but you cannot respond to them.
The /qn or /qb option is required to run a silent installation.
INSTALLDIR
Specifies an alternative installation path for the View component.
Use the format INSTALLDIR=path to specify an installation path. You can ignore this
MSI property if you want to install the View component in the default path.
This MSI property is optional.
ADDLOCAL
Determines the component-specific options to install.
In an interactive installation, the View installer displays custom setup options that you
can select or deselect. In a silent installation, you can use the ADDLOCAL property to
selectively install individual setup options by specifying the options on the command
line. Options that you do not explicitly specify are not installed.
In both interactive and silent installations, the View installer automatically installs
certain features. You cannot use ADDLOCAL to control whether or not to install these non-
optional features.
Type ADDLOCAL=ALL to install all custom setup options that can be installed during an
interactive installation, including those that are installed by default and those that you
must select to install, as well as all non-optional features that are installed automatically
(on supported guest operating systems).
The following example installs Core, PCoIP, UnityTouch, VmVideo, PSG, and all
features that are supported on the guest operating system: VMware-viewagent-y.y.y-
xxxxxx.exe /s /v"/qn ADDLOCAL=ALL"
If you do not use the ADDLOCAL property, the custom setup options that are installed by
default and the automatically installed features are installed. Custom setup options that
are off (unselected) by default are not installed.
The following example installs Core, PCoIP, UnityTouch, VmVideo, PSG, and the on-
by-default custom setup options that are supported on the guest operating system:
VMware-viewagent-y.y.y-xxxxxx.exe /s /v"/qn"
To specify individual setup options, type a comma-separated list of setup option names.
Do not use spaces between names. Use the format ADDLOCAL=value,value,value....
You must include Core when you use the ADDLOCAL=value,value,value...
property.
The following example installs View Agent in a guest operating system with the Core,
PCoIP, UnityTouch, VMVideo, PSG, View Composer Agent, and Virtual Printing
features (if View Composer Agent and Virtual Printing are supported on the guest
operating system):
VMware-viewagent-y.y.y-xxxxxx.exe /s /v"/qn
ADDLOCAL=Core,SVIAgent,ThinPrint"
The preceding example does not install other options, even those that are installed by
default interactively.
The ADDLOCAL MSI property is optional.
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