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Table Of Contents
- Cloud Director User's Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Understanding VMware Cloud Director
- Managing Users and Groups
- Using the Resources Available to Your Organization
- Working in an Organization
- Set Up an Organization
- Review Your Organization Profile
- Modify Your Email Settings
- Modify Your Organization's Policies
- Enable Guest Personalization in Your Organization
- Manage Users and Groups in Your Organization
- Manage Resources in Your Organization
- Manage Virtual Machines in Your Organization
- Viewing Organization Log Tasks and Events
- Working with Catalogs
- Working with Media Files
- Working with vApp Templates
- Open a vApp Template
- Add a vApp Template to My Cloud
- Download a vApp Template
- Upload an OVF Package as a vApp Template
- Resume the Upload of a vApp Template
- Add a vApp Template from a Catalog
- Copy a vApp Template to a Published Catalog
- Move a vApp Template to a Published Catalog
- Delete a vApp Template
- Save a vApp as a vApp Template
- Modify vApp Template Properties
- Working with vApps
- Add a vApp From a Catalog in Your Organization
- Create a New vApp
- Understanding vApps
- Working with Networks in a vApp
- Copy a vApp Template and Save it as a vApp
- Edit vApp Properties
- Delete a vApp
- Start a vApp
- Start a vApp with an Older Version of VMware Tools
- Stop a vApp
- Suspend a vApp
- Discard the Suspended State of a vApp
- Reset a vApp or Virtual Machine
- Share a vApp
- Power on and Force Recustomization of a Virtual Machine
- Save vApp as a vApp Template to Your Catalog
- Change the Owner of a vApp
- Copy a vApp to Another vDC
- Move a vApp to Another vDC
- Delete Virtual Machines from a vApp
- Working with Virtual Machines
- Open a Virtual Machine Console
- Reset a vApp or Virtual Machine
- Discard the Suspended State of a Virtual Machine
- Insert a CD/DVD
- Eject a CD/DVD
- Insert a Floppy
- Eject a Floppy
- Copy or Move a Virtual Machine to a vApp
- Delete a Virtual Machine
- Managing Your Virtual Machines
- Installing VMware Tools
- Install VMware Tools in a New Virtual Machine with No Guest Operating System
- Installing VMware Tools in a vApp
- Install VMware Tools in a Virtual Machine in a vApp
- Install VMware Tools in a vApp Template
- Install VMware Tools With Guest Customization Disabled
- Upgrade VMware Tools
- Install VMware Tools on a Windows Guest
- Install VMware Tools on a Linux Guest in X with the RPM Installer
- Install VMware Tools on a Linux Guest with the Tar Installer or RPM Installer
- Install VMware Tools on a Solaris Guest
- Guest Operating System Support
- Install a Guest Operating System
- Customizing Your Guest Operating System
- Understanding Guest Customization
- Customizing a Guest OS When Saving a vApp Template as a vApp
- Enable or Disable Guest Customization
- Change Guest Customization Settings for Virtual Machines in a vApp Template
- Customize Your Windows NT vApp Template
- Customize Your Solaris vApp Template
- Upload a Customization Script
- Reset Your Virtual Machine's Password
- Domain Join Requirements for Windows
- Join a Windows Guest Domain During Guest Operating System Personalization
- Guest Operating System Support
- Index
8 Run the VMware Tools tar installer.
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cd vmware-tools-distrib
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./vmware-install.pl
9 Press Enter to accept the default value.
10 Type exit.
11 Start your graphical environment.
12 In an X terminal, enter vmware-toolbox &.
Guest Operating System Support
Guest operating system support is available, such as installing and customizing your guest OS.
In “Guest Operating System Support,” on page 84, you can see a list of the supported guest operating systems
and whether customization is automatic or manual.
Install a Guest Operating System
With a guest OS you can manage virtual machines that are based on the available operating systems.
Prerequisites
The appropriate media file must be in your catalog.
Procedure
1 Click My Cloud.
2 In the left pane, click VMs.
3 Select a virtual machine, right-click, and select Insert CD/DVD.
4 Select an available media file in the top panel or select one and add it to your vDC in the bottom panel.
5 Click OK.
6 Point to the virtual machine name and press Ctrl+Alt+Del to boot from the ISO image and start the
operating system installer.
7 In the virtual machine console, type the required information to complete the installation.
8 Click Finish.
Customizing Your Guest Operating System
When you customize your guest OS you can set up a virtual machine with the operating system that you want.
Cloud Director can customize the network settings of the guest operating system of a virtual machine created
from a vApp template. When you customize your guest operating system, you can create and deploy multiple
unique virtual machines based on the same vApp template without machine name or network conflicts.
When you configure a vApp template with the prerequisites for guest customization and add a virtual machine
to a vApp based on that template, Cloud Director creates a package with guest customization tools. When you
deploy and power on the virtual machine for the first time, Cloud Director copies the package, runs the tools,
and deletes the package from the virtual machine.
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