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== Performing a Command Prompt VMware Server Installation ==
The preceding section of this chapter described the VMware Server 2.0 installation process using the graphical wizard. As previously mentioned, the wizard installs all networking options by default. For greater control over this aspect of the installation , it is necessary to resort to installation installating VMware Server from the command prompt.
The first step of this process is to unpack the installation image to a temporary location (for example ''C:\tmp'') . This is achieved using the following commandline:
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VMware-server-2.x.x-xxxxxx.exe /a /s /v TARGETDIR="C:\tmp" /qn
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Once the installation files have been extracted the installation can be performed using the Windows '''msiexec''' tool using the following . The syntaxfor this command is as follows:
msiexec /i "''TempPath''\VMware Server.msi" [INSTALLDIR="''InstallPath''"] ADDLOCAL=ALL [REMOVE=''feature'', ''feature''] /qn
In the above syntax outline, the command line arguments in square brackets are optional and ''TempPath'' is the temporary location into which the installation files were extracted in the preceding step (C:\tmp\vmware in the case of this example). If VMware Server is to be installed in a location other than the default (\Program Files\VMware\VMware Server), specify the desired alternate location using the ''INSTALLDIR'' directive.
Of particular importance is the optional ''REMOVE='' directive which is used to define which networking features are to be omitted during the installation process. Options available include ''Network'', ''DHCP'' and ''NAT''. For example, to install VMware Server without the NAT support:
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msiexec /i "c:\tmp\vmware\VMware Server.msi" ADDLOCAL=ALL REMOVE=NAT /qn
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== Accessing the VMware Infrastructure Web Access Interface ==
