{"id":784,"date":"2019-11-29T16:35:42","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T13:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/?p=784"},"modified":"2019-12-04T08:20:37","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T05:20:37","slug":"linuxvsm-vmware-software-manager-on-linux-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/index.php\/2019\/11\/29\/linuxvsm-vmware-software-manager-on-linux-2\/","title":{"rendered":"LinuxVSM (VMware Software Manager on Linux)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finding <strong>VMware<\/strong> installation media and downloading them properly can be a problem from time to time and creates confusion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LinuxVSM<\/strong> was created by <strong>Edward Haletky<\/strong> to solve these problems.<\/p>\n<p>The project is accessible via <strong>Github<\/strong> and also has installation support on <strong>MacOS<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming weak linux ability, I created a <strong>VMware<\/strong> template on a minimal <strong>Centos<\/strong> distribution with <strong>LinuxVSM<\/strong> code inside.<\/p>\n<p>The template I created;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Can be deployed via <strong>vSphere<\/strong>, it can receive network settings on deployment and can be accessed via <strong>VRMC<\/strong> and <strong>SSH<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>After operating system login, the download application can be started with a single command (<strong>vsm<\/strong>) and files can be downloaded with a valid <strong>VMware<\/strong> credentials.<\/li>\n<li>The downloaded files can be accessed through the <strong>Windows File Sharing<\/strong> protocol <strong>SMB<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/hwnedwqf5rcum10\/deploy.pdf?dl=0\"><strong>Here<\/strong><\/a> are the necessary steps for installation;<\/p>\n<p>The download link for the <strong>LinuxVSM<\/strong> file is available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/wenq6trc83hb98q\/LinuxVSM.ova?dl=0\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-787\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Monosnap-2019-11-29-16-11-43-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"656\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Monosnap-2019-11-29-16-11-43-1.png 656w, https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Monosnap-2019-11-29-16-11-43-1-300x187.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-785\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/LinuxVSM-Menu-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"444\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/LinuxVSM-Menu-1.png 444w, https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/LinuxVSM-Menu-1-249x300.png 249w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finding VMware installation media and downloading them properly can be a problem from time to time and creates confusion. LinuxVSM was created by Edward Haletky to solve these problems. The project is accessible via Github and also has installation support on MacOS. Assuming weak linux ability, I created a VMware template on a minimal Centos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161,159,163,165,167],"tags":[112,423,421,425,427],"class_list":["post-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-open-source","category-unix","category-virtualization","category-vmware","tag-linux-en","tag-linuxvsm-en","tag-macos","tag-ova-template-en","tag-vmware-software-manager-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":789,"href":"https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions\/789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}