2.5  VMware Virtual Appliance

VMware Virtual Appliance is a virtual device (Debian Linux with pre-installed Kerio Workspace) can be used in VMware products. For supported VMware product versions, check http://www.kerio.com/.

Use an installation package in accordance with the type of your VMware product (see above):

If you import virtual appliance in the OVF format, bear the following specifics in mind. Tasks for shutdown or restart of the virtual machine will be set to default values after the import. These values can be set to hard shutdown or hard reset. However, this may cause a loss of data on the virtual appliance. Kerio Workspace VMware Virtual Appliance supports so called Soft Power Operations which allow to shutdown or restart hosted operating system properly. Therefore, it is recommended to set shutdown or restart of the hosted operating system as the value.

After login

When you run the virtual computer, Kerio Workspace interface is displayed. The console is protected by the root password. The password is at first set to: kerio

This console provides several actions to be taken:

  • change network configuration

  • allow SSH connection

  • set time zone

  • change user root password

  • restart and shutdown of VMware Virtual Appliance

Console — network configuration

Figure 2.4. Console — network configuration


The network configuration allows you to:

  1. Viewing network adapters — MAC address, name and IP address of the adapter

  2. Setting network adapters

    • DHCP

    • static IP address (if you do not use DHCP, it is necessary to set also DNS)

Note

If you use a DHCP service on your network, the server will be assigned an IP address automatically and will connect to the network. If you do not use or do not wish to use DHCP for Kerio Workspace, you have to set the IP address manually.

If the IP address is assigned by the DHCP server, we recommend to reserve an IP address for Kerio Workspace so that it will not change.

Shell access

A terminal is available for product and operating system updates. You can switch it by pressing the standard Alt+Fx combination (for example, Alt+F2) for running a new console.

If you access the system via shell for the first time, log in as root:

Username: root

Password: kerio

VMware Appliance also allows the access via SSH which will be required for remote access (for example, for uploads of update packages).

Upgrade

Upgrade Kerio Workspace as follows:

  1. Download the deb package to your computer

  2. Use SCP/SSH to move it to VMware Appliance

  3. To upgrade, use command dpkg (see section 2.3  Linux — Debian)

The operating system can be upgraded via shell using the standard command apt-get.