Installing The Vmware Management Interface On A Linux Host - VMware GSX Server 3 Administration Manual

Installing the VMware Management Interface on a Linux Host

The steps below describe an installation of the VMware Management Interface 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.
Note: You must install the libdb.so.3 library from your Linux CD-ROM first. For
more information, see Before You Install the VMware Management Interface on a
Linux Host on page 65.
1. In a terminal window, if you haven't done so already, become root so you can
carry out the installation.
su -
2. Mount the CD-ROM drive and change to the Linux directory on the CD.
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
cd /mnt/cdrom/Linux
3. Copy the tar archive to a directory on your hard drive (for example, to /tmp).
cp VMware-mui-<xxxx>.tar.gz /tmp
(where <xxxx> is a series of numbers representing version and build numbers)
Caution: Make sure the directory to which you plan to untar the tar archive does
not contain any files from a previous management interface tar installation.
Change to the directory to which you copied the file.
cd /tmp
Unpack the archive.
tar zxf VMware-mui-<xxxx>.tar.gz
(where <xxxx> is a series of numbers representing version and build numbers)
4. Change to the installation directory.
cd vmware-mui-distrib
5. Run the installation program.
./vmware-install.pl
6. Press Enter to continue.
7. Accept the EULA.
8. Specify the directory where you want to install the management components,
the binary files, management interface files, init directories and init scripts.
Or accept the default directories.
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