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Guest and Software Agent Installers

Guest Agent Installers




Linux Software Installers

You can download this tar.gz file to help install the supported Java Runtime Environment, the guest agent, and the software bootstrap agent on your Linux reference machine. Extract the contents of the zip file. Go to the extracted folder, run prepare_vra_template.sh script and follow the prompts.
You can manually prepare your Linux reference machine by installing the supported Java Runtime Environment in /opt/vmware-jre, and installing the guest agent and the Software bootstrap agent.


Windows Software Installers

You can download a zip file to help install the supported Java Runtime Environment, the guest agent, and the software bootstrap agent on your machine.

  • prepare_vra_template_windows.zip (RIGHT CLICK and choose SAVE TARGET AS)
    • Extract the contents of the zip file and after going to the directory where the files were extracted, prepare_vra_template.ps1 can be executed as:
    • PowerShell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command .\prepare_vra_template.ps1
      • OR
    • .\prepare_vra_template.bat

You can manually prepare your Windows reference machine by installing the supported Java Runtime Environment in C:\opt\vmware-jre, and installing the guest agent and the Software bootstrap agent.


Azure Machines

For Azure endpoint machines, in addition to the above you download the below scripts and store it in Azure storage, or any other location accessible through a valid URL.

  • script.ps1 (RIGHT CLICK and choose SAVE TARGET AS)
  • script.sh (RIGHT CLICK and choose SAVE TARGET AS)

    • Refer documentation for more information on Software Component for Azure.

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