Installing Red5 Virtual Appliance

Posted on 27. Aug, 2009 by joshhrob in Server, Streaming, Virtualization

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This document outlines installation of the Red5 Virtual Appliance referenced in the previous post:

Building a Red5 Virtual Appliance on Jeos

In this document we will be using VMWare Workstation 6.5. The process should be simalar for VMWare Server or ESX.

In Workstation, click on File and Import

Press Next

And Next again

For type of source, select Virtual Appliance

Press Browse and navigate to the red4server.ovf file

Click Next on the Virtual Appliance details page

Accept license agreement

For destination select the type of platform you are running. In this case we will select Other Virtual Machine.

Enter a name for your inventory and a directory where you want the vm files to be stored

Leave defaults: “Import and Convert (full-clone)” and “Allow virtual disk to expand”

Leave defaults: “Bridged Networking”

Press Next

Press Finish

The Virtual Appliance will be imported. This will take a few minutes. When finished press close

Press the green start button to power on the virtual appliance

The server should boot up in less than a minute. When prompted login in with username: red5 password: password.

Carefully follow instructions to change password. Note: you must first enter the default password and then enter a new password twice to change it.

To change password at a later time enter the command passwd at the command prompt.

Carefully follow instructions to set static ip address. Note: you will need to enter your password again for network changes to take effect.

To change your ip address in the future, you will need to edit the /etc/network/interfaces files and to change DNS /etc/resolv. In order for changes to take effect enter the command /etc/init.d/networking restart (or just reboot)

The server is now ready to go.

If you have questions or issues please leave a comment below.

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Tags: red5, virtual appliance, vmware workstation

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