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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.
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
    (where <xxxx> is a series of numbers representing the version and build numbers)
    The archive unpacks to vmware-console-distrib.
    b. Run the installer.
    cd vmware-console-distrib
    ./vmware-install.pl
    c. Accept the EULA and answer the questions specifying default directories for the binary files, library files, manual files and documentation files.
    d. If the Do you accept prompt doesn't appear, press Q to continue.
    6. Run the configuration program vmware-config-console.pl.
    Note: If you use the RPM installer, you need to run this program separately from the command line. If you install from the tar archive, the installer offers to launch the configuration program for you. Answer Yes when you see the prompt.
    You see the following prompt: What port do you want the remote console to use to connect to server. [902]
    If you specified a different port number when you installed the server software, enter that port number here. Otherwise, keep the default of 902.
    7. When you finish, log out of the root account.
    exit


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