ADempiere Virtual Appliance Install
After you have installed one of VMware's products download the AVA package. If you are using Windows download ava311-3.zip otherwise try one of the other files.
Once you have extracted that package to your harddrive you will find that there is a file called Adempiere3.1.1-3.vmx. 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:
- Just learn by doing and ask questions on Adempiere irc (techie way)
- Buy Compiere User Documetation from http://www.compiere.com for USD$50 (paid way)
- 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:
- Webstart does not work in AVA rev3 and 2 (but will be in rev4)
- Root password is Bazaar
- Default user (Adempiere) has sudo rights.
- Jboss is managed by /etc/init.d/jboss script
