VMware GSX Server 3 Administration, Administration Manual

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C H A P T E R 2 Installing VMware GSX Server
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The server on which you are installing GSX Server must have Microsoft Windows
Installer runtime engine version 2.0 installed. This version is included with Windows
Server 2003. If you are installing on a Windows 2000 host (or are installing the VMware
Scripting APIs on a Windows NT 4.0 client), check the version of this file:
%WINDIR%\system32\msiexec.exe
If you need to upgrade the engine, run
instmsiw.exe
, which is located in the
directory where you extract the installation packages; see below.
For more information on using the Microsoft Windows Installer, go to the Microsoft
Web site —
msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/msi/setup/
about_windows_installer.asp .
To install GSX Server silently on a Windows host, complete the following steps.
1. Extract the individual installation packages. Open a command prompt and on
one line type:
VMware-gsx-server-installer-<xxxx>.exe /a /s /x /d
C:\temp\gsx
(where
<xxxx>
is a series of numbers representing version and build numbers.)
2. Run the silent installation on the extracted installation packages. At the
command prompt, on one line, type:
msiexec -i "C:\temp\gsx\VMware GSX Server.msi"
ADDLOCAL=ALL /qn
The installation command can be customized using standard Microsoft
Windows Installer installation properties as well as any of the following:
Property Name Description Default
DESKTOP_SHORTCUT
Installs GSX Server shortcuts on the desktop. By default,
shortcuts are installed on the desktop.
To prevent shortcuts from being installed, add the
following in step 2:
DESKTOP_SHORTCUT = 0
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DISABLE_AUTORUN
Disables CD autorun on the host. By default, autorun is
disabled during the installation.
To enable autorun, add the following in step 2:
DISABLE_AUTORUN = 0
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