5.2

If Windows Media Player is not installed, the View Agent installation program does not install the multimedia
redirection (MMR) feature. If you install Windows Media Player after installing View Agent, you can install
the MMR feature by running the View Agent installation program again and selecting the Repair option.
What to do next
If
the virtual machine has multiple NICs, configure the subnet that View Agent uses. See “Configure a Virtual
Machine with Multiple NICs for View Agent,” on page 70.
Microsoft Windows Installer Command-Line Options
To install View components silently, you must use Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI) command-line options
and properties. The View component installers are MSI programs and use standard MSI features.
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 View component computer and type msiexec /?.
To run a View component installer silently, you begin by disabling the bootstrap program that extracts the
installer into a temporary directory and starts an interactive installation.
At the command line, you must enter command-line options that control the installer's bootstrap program.
Table 4-3. Command-Line Options for a View Component's Bootstrap Program
Option Description
/s
Disables the bootstrap splash screen and extraction dialog, which prevents the display of
interactive dialogs.
For example: VMware-viewconnectionserver- y.y.y - xxxxxx .exe /s
The /s option is required to run a silent installation.
/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-viewagent-
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 View component in an installation
path name that contains spaces.
For example: VMware-viewconnectionserver- 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 the View component's 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 the View component.
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