Revision as of 21:18, 9 February 2014

Astronaut Server/Client Installation Instructions

This is an guide for installing an Astronaut Client in a Virtual Linux Machine, with a Windows Host Machine.

This guide will be broken down into a couple of different components, and will offer overall:

1. How to setup and run the Virtual Machine in VMWare Workstation (or Player)
2. How to install the Astronaut Server
3. How to test the Astronaut Server
4. How to install the Astronaut Client (Windows)
5. How to convert the Virtual Machine into a Virtual Appliance (VMWare Workstation only)

Setting up the Virtual Machine

The first step in this procedure is to make sure that you have a virtual machine, running some form of linux to install to. This guide has been tested and works for Ubuntu Server 12.04 running on VMWare Player 6 and Workstation 10.

Since VMWare Player is free and Workstation is only offered on a 30 day trial, it is recommended that you use VMWare Player first, since any machine created on player can be run on Workstation.

Download VMWare Player 6 (or Latest Version)

VMWare is a virtualization platform and though there are support for many OS's, VMWare Player is for Windows only.

VMWare Player is free and shouldn't be confused with VMWare Player Plus. The free download can be found at this link:

https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/free#desktop_end_user_computing/vmware_player/6_0%7CPLAYER-601%7Cproduct_downloads

Once downloaded, simply run the setup and install, use the basic flavor of installation.

Installing Ubuntu

Ubuntu is a free distro of Linux that offers a variety of releases to choose from. There are multiple types but for this, Ubuntu Server 12.04 will be used. The download for this, and any supported distro, can be grabbed off of the main site.

but here it is for short.

http://www.ubuntu.com/download/server

There are other FTP servers setup for Ubuntu flavors, simply google the version you want if this doesn't fit and grab the download, it should come in a .iso format and should be rather large (upwards of 600MBs) so make sure you have space and a good internet connection before downloading.

The next step is to start up VMWare Player and click on the New Virtual Machine button,

Install Astronaut Server

Preparing the machine

Test the Installation

Install the Astronaut Client

Convert the Virtual Machine to Virtual Appliance