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*Your virtual machine becomes an automatic server and your client desktops can use the Web UI and Java Client right away! All thanks to Paul Aviles from Miami Florida, USA.
 
*Your virtual machine becomes an automatic server and your client desktops can use the Web UI and Java Client right away! All thanks to Paul Aviles from Miami Florida, USA.
 
*This Virtual Appliance contains a small 494MB image running CentOS 5.3 with the resources needed to compile and run ADempiere from a client computer.  
 
*This Virtual Appliance contains a small 494MB image running CentOS 5.3 with the resources needed to compile and run ADempiere from a client computer.  
*The image does not contain X Windows or VNC as it was designed to run ADempiere inside the Virtual Appliance, and to run the ADempiere client from a remote desktop computer using either a Web Browser or the Java client.  
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*The image does not contain X Windows or VNC as it was designed to run ADempiere as a service for both Java and HTML clients so that you can run the ADempiere client from a remote desktop computer using either a Web Browser or the Java client.  
 
*If you use the Java client you must have a DNS entry pointing to the IP address of the Virtual Appliance with the host name of adempierehost.com.<br>
 
*If you use the Java client you must have a DNS entry pointing to the IP address of the Virtual Appliance with the host name of adempierehost.com.<br>
  

Revision as of 06:28, 11 July 2009

Playtime

  • After you have installed one of VMware's products download the AVA package. You can find the AVA packages distributed as zip files on the AVA download page at SourceForge.
  • They are now usually split into 7z files for best download times due to its very big size (1.5g reduced to 533Mb) Read the Release Note at that download section.
  • Look in the "Useful Links" section below for the latest AVA release.

  • Once you have extracted that package to your harddrive you will find that there is a file with the .vmx extension. In windows and some Linuxes just doubleclick it. *Another way is to open VMplayer (there should be menu entry made by installer) and open that .vmx file using VMplayer's user interface. In VMplayer you only have to wait while AVA boots up (Nice blue boot splash screen should appear on the screen). If you are using VMware server you have to click that big green arrow on toolbar to boot up.

  • After some time you should get desktop with ADempiere and browser logo. ADempiere logo opens up ADempiere UI and browser gets you on ADempiere server's default page. If you are totally new with ADempiere and Compiere, but wish to learn ADempiere you have some options:
  1. Just learn by doing and ask questions on Adempiere irc (techie way)
  2. Buy Compiere User Documentation from http://www.compiere.com for USD$50 (paid way)
  3. Use the work in progress User documentation and enhance it while you are discovering new things (the bazaar way)

AVA Notes

Don't worry if you don't understand these:

  • Root user password is "bazaar"
  • adempiere user password is "bazaar"
  • Default user (Adempiere) has sudo rights.
  • Jboss is managed by /etc/init.d/jboss (start/stop) script
  • Adempiere Server Monitor user: SuperUser/System

Latest Version

  • July trunk's 353a.7z only 371Mb by Paul Aviles. Download now from SourceForge
    • Use the ava353a_OVF10.ovf for adapting to other VM players such as VirtualBox.
  • Alternate bigger zipped 494Mb from http://www.nickelnetworks.com/downloads/ava353a.zip
  • Watch this flash tutorial http://www.nickelnetworks.com/Virtual
  • Your virtual machine becomes an automatic server and your client desktops can use the Web UI and Java Client right away! All thanks to Paul Aviles from Miami Florida, USA.
  • This Virtual Appliance contains a small 494MB image running CentOS 5.3 with the resources needed to compile and run ADempiere from a client computer.
  • The image does not contain X Windows or VNC as it was designed to run ADempiere as a service for both Java and HTML clients so that you can run the ADempiere client from a remote desktop computer using either a Web Browser or the Java client.
  • If you use the Java client you must have a DNS entry pointing to the IP address of the Virtual Appliance with the host name of adempierehost.com.

Usefull Links

Contributors