You may download the Chromium package for CentOS from Chris Staite at the University of Birmingham and substitute it to Firefox in the current Browser Appliance. To do so, open the Terminal and u...
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You may download the Chromium package for CentOS from Chris Staite at the University of Birmingham and substitute it to Firefox in the current Browser Appliance. To do so, open the Terminal and use the following commands: curl http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~cxs548/chrome.tar.gz|tar zxf -; sudo mv /usr/bin/firefox{,-}; sudo ln -s /home/vmware/chrome/chrome-wrapper /usr/bin/firefox
The Browser Appliance 5.0 (featuring Firefox 5.0) is now available. This release is based on the Scientific Linux 6.0 distribution since CentOS 6 has not come out yet.
To install a text editor in the Browser Appliance, open the Terminal and enter the following command: sudo yum install -y gedit After installation completes, the Text Editor will be available...
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To install a text editor in the Browser Appliance, open the Terminal and enter the following command: sudo yum install -y gedit After installation completes, the Text Editor will be available from the "Applications" menu (under "Accessories").
VMware Tools 8.4.5 (build 324285) is now also included in the CentOS 5.5 + Firefox 3.6.13 Browser Appliance. Erratum: the README file should read "January 2011" instead of "January 2010"!
An updated version with these tools along with Firefox 4 beta 9 is now available (down the page) after clicking the "Download Virtual Appliance" link from the VMware page. The Firefox 4 Beta soft...
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An updated version with these tools along with Firefox 4 beta 9 is now available (down the page) after clicking the "Download Virtual Appliance" link from the VMware page. The Firefox 4 Beta software should update every few weeks to the latest beta release, and it should eventually update to the final release of Firefox 4 when it will be available. The Adobe Flash plugin can be installed from the Terminal as before (see above).
No idea. I had no issue installing VMware Tools 8.4.5 (build 324285) in the Browser Appliance 3.6.7 : all compatible pre-built modules were found by the vmware-install.pl script...
Also, the serial port has to be enabled in the virtual BIOS (under "Avanced" -> "I/O Device Configuration"). You should then see something like this with the dmesg command: Serial: 82...
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Also, the serial port has to be enabled in the virtual BIOS (under "Avanced" -> "I/O Device Configuration"). You should then see something like this with the dmesg command: Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A 00:08: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
The Browser Appliance does not come with a serial port, but you may add one from the Virtual Machine Settings, with the following options: use physical serial port on the host / output to file ...
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The Browser Appliance does not come with a serial port, but you may add one from the Virtual Machine Settings, with the following options: use physical serial port on the host / output to file / output to named pipe. For more information, please refer to the VMware documentation at
The Browser Appliance was updated to run Firefox 3.6.7 on CentOS 5.5 . You may now update Firefox 3.6 to the latest release from within the program itself by selecting "Check for Updates..." f...
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The Browser Appliance was updated to run Firefox 3.6.7 on CentOS 5.5 . You may now update Firefox 3.6 to the latest release from within the program itself by selecting "Check for Updates..." from the Help menu. The latest Adobe Flash plugin can be installed from the Terminal using the command: sudo yum install -y flash-plugin You will then need to restart Firefox in order to use the Flash plugin.