Installing vCLI and VI Perl Toolkit on linux platforms has been the pain point of many users. We are able to install on Suse and will be coming up with future post for Fedora and Ubuntu.
The installer of vCLI on SUSE Enterprise Server 10 64-bit is a Perl script, vmware-install.pl, supported for use on default installations of SUSE Enterprise server.
The VI Perl Toolkit installer for Linux distributions requires Perl 5.8, plus these libraries:
For Installting the modules on SUSE 10 machine we first need to install C/C++ installer modules during SUSE installation.
The VI Perl Toolkit installer for Linux distributions requires Perl 5.8, plus these libraries:
- Linker utility (binutils package)
- GNU C libraries (glibc or libc6 package)
- OpenSSL library (libssl-dev package)
- XML DOM/SAX libraries (libxml2 package)
- Some perl modules (Listed below)
For Installting the modules on SUSE 10 machine we first need to install C/C++ installer modules during SUSE installation.
Installing OpenSSL
The SUSE Enterprise 10 DVD includes the OpenSSL package on the installation DVD.
Insert the SUSE installation DVD
From the terminal console execute following command:
a) cd /media/SLES10SP_001/suse/x86_64
b) rpm -i openssl-devel-0.9.8a-18.26.x86_64.rpm
Installing XML DOM/SAX libraries
The SUSE Enterprise 10 DVD includes the libxml2 package on the installation DVD.
Step Description
1 Insert the SUSE installation DVD
2 From the terminal console execute following command:
a) cd /media/SLES10SP_001/suse/x86_64.
b) rpm -i readline-devel-5.1-24.19.x86_64.rpm
c) rpm -i libxml2-devel-2.6.23-15.8.x86_64.rpm
Installing Pre-Requisite Perl Module
Following module needs to be installed separately.
- Class::MethodMaker 2.08
- Crypt::SSLeay 0.51
- LWP 5.8.05
- XML::LibXML 1.58
- Archive::Zip
Class::MethodMaker
Execute the following commands to install module Class-MethodMaker-2.15.tar.gz
- tar -zxvf Class-MethodMaker-2.15.tar.gz
- cd Class-MethodMaker-2.15
- perl Makefile.PL
- make
- make install
Crypt::SSLeay
Execute the following commands to install module Crypt-SSLeay-0.57.tar.gz
- tar -zxvf Crypt-SSLeay-0.57.tar.gz
- cd Crypt-SSLeay-0.57
- perl Makefile.PL
- Make
- Make install
LWP
Execute the following commands to install module libwww-perl-5.825.tar.gz:
- tar -zxvf libwww-perl-5.825.tar.gz
- cd libwww-perl-5.825
- perl Makefile.PL
- make
- make install
XML::LibXML
Execute the following commands to install module XML-NamespaceSupport-1.09.tar.gz:
- tar -zxvf XML-NamespaceSupport-1.09.tar.gz
- cd XML-NamespaceSupport-1.09
- perl Makefile.PL
- make
- make install
Execute the following commands to install module XML-LibXML-Common-0.13.tar.gz:
- tar -zxvf XML-LibXML-Common-0.13.tar.gz
- cd XML-LibXML-Common-0.13
- perl Makefile.PL
- make
- make install
Execute the following commands to install module XML-SAX-0.96.tar.gz:
- tar -zxvf XML-SAX-0.96.tar.gz
- cd XML-SAX-0.96
- perl Makefile.PL
- make
- make install
Execute the following commands to install module XML-LibXML-1.69.tar.gz:
- tar -zxvf XML-LibXML-1.69.tar.gz
- cd XML-LibXML-1.69
- perl Makefile.PL
- make
- make install
Archive::Zip
Execute the following commands to install module Archive-Zip-1.26.tar.gz:
- tar -zxvf Archive-Zip-1.26.tar.gz
- cd Archive-Zip-1.26
- perl Makefile.PL
- make
- make install
Installing vCLI
Download the latest RCLI build.
1 tar -zxvf VMware-vSphere-CLI-.i386.tar.gz it will create the vmware-vsphere-vcli-distrib folder
2 From the terminal console execute following command:
a) cd vmware-vsphere-vcli-distrib.
b) perl vmware-install.pl
Test Cases
1 vmware-cmd perl vmware-cmd -H -U root -P myuser -l Pass
2 vicfg-vmknic perl vicfg-vmknic -url https:// /sdk -username root --password myuser -l Pass
3 vicfg-nics perl vicfg-nics -url https:///sdk --username root --password myuser -l Pass
4 vifs perl vifs -url https:///sdk --username root --password myuser -C Pass
Using the same procedure you can install for 32bit.
Enjoy ...
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