ADempiere Virtual Appliance Install
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 download page at SourceForge. They are located under the various releases of the Adempiere packages as something like ava_*.zip. Note that the has not been an AVA package made for each of the releases, so look for the most recent. Also, there is a link in the "Useful Links" section below to the latest AVA release.
Once you have extracted that package to your harddrive you will find that there is a file called Adempiere*.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 Documentation 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:
- Root password is bazaar
- Default user (Adempiere) has sudo rights.
- Jboss is managed by /etc/init.d/jboss script
Useful Links
- Download latest AVA from Sourceforge. (You need to download all the parts listed).
- Download the VMware player here
- A relevant thread in Sourceforge to help you with troubleshooting
Contributors
- Timo Kontro for been the starter of this contribution. He then reduced size (from 1g to 400M) the latest AVA from:
- Fer_luck contribute the 315 version
- Red1 now tries to be an updgrader of the present AVA.
- (we still appreciate volunteers as this task is quite simple and i like to move to more higher ones) - Red1 23:41, 25 January 2008 (EST)
