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Table 2‑2. Horizon Client Silent Installation Features and Interactive Custom Setup Options
Silent Installation Feature Custom Setup Option in an Interactive Installation
Core
If you specify individual features with the MSI property,
ADDLOCAL=, you must include Core.
None.
During an interactive installation, the core Horizon Client
functions are installed by default.
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Microsoft Windows Installer Command-Line Options
To install Horizon Client silently, you must use Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI) command-line options
and properties. The Horizon Client installers are MSI programs and use standard MSI features. You can also
use MSI command-line options to uninstall Horizon Client silently.
For details about MSI, see the Microsoft Web site. For MSI command-line options, see the Microsoft
Developer Network (MSDN) Library Web site and search for MSI command-line options. To see MSI
command-line usage, you can open a command prompt on the client computer and type msiexec /?.
To run the Horizon Client installer silently, you begin by silencing the bootstrap program that extracts the
installer into a temporary directory and starts an interactive installation.
The following table shows the command-line options that control the installer's bootstrap program.
Table 2‑3. Command-Line Options for the Bootstrap Program
Option Description
/s
Disables the bootstrap splash screen and extraction dialog box, which prevents the display
of interactive dialogs.
For example: VMware-Horizon-View-Client-y.y.y-xxxxxx.exe /s
The /s option is required to run a silent installation. In the examples, xxxxxx is the build
number and y.y.y is the version number.
/v" MSI_command_line_options"
Instructs the installer to pass the double-quote-enclosed string that you enter at the
command line as a set of options for MSI to interpret. You must enclose your command-line
entries between double quotes. Place a double quote after the /v and at the end of the
command line.
For example: VMware-Horizon-View-Client-y.y.y-
xxxxxx.exe /s /v"command_line_options"
To instruct the MSI installer to interpret a string that contains spaces, enclose the string in
two sets of double quotes. For example, you might want to install the client in an
installation path name that contains spaces.
For example: VMware--Horizon-View-Client-y.y.y-
xxxxxx.exe /s /v"command_line_options INSTALLDIR=""d:\abc\my folder"""
In this example, the MSI installer passes on the installation-directory path and does not
attempt to interpret the string as two command-line options. Note the final double quote
that encloses the entire command line.
The /v"command_line_options" option is required to run a silent installation.
You control the remainder of a silent installation by passing command-line options and MSI property values
to the MSI installer, msiexec.exe. The MSI installer includes Horizon Client installation code. The installer
uses the values and options that you enter in the command line to interpret installation choices and setup
options that are specific to Horizon Client.
The following table shows the command-line options and MSI property values that are passed to the MSI
installer.
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