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Chapter 7 Installing VMware ESX Server Software

To install the language pack

1 DownloadtheVMware‐ESXlangpack‐<version>‐<build>.zipfilefromthe

downloadsite.

2ExtractthecontentsoftheZIPfileintoatemporarydirectory.

3Copythefilesfromtheesx/hostd/directorytothehostdinstallationdirectoryon

yourESXServerhost(usuallyusr/lib/vmware/hostd/).

cp -pr esx/hostd/locale /usr/lib/vmware/hostd

4Copythefilesfromtheesx/webAccess/directorytotheVIWebAccessinstallation

directoryonyourESXServerhost(usually

/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache‐tomcat‐<version>/webapps/).

cp -pr esx/webAccess/webapps/ui

/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-<version>/

webapps/

cp -pr esx/webAccess/webapps/WEB-INF

/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-<version>/

webapps/ui/

cp -pr esx/docroot /usr/lib/vmware/hostd/

5Editthe/etc/vmware/hostd/config.xmlfiletoenablethecorrectdefaultlanguage:

ForGerman,addthefollowinglinestotheconfig.xmlfile:

<locale>

<DefaultLocale>de_DE</DefaultLocale>

</locale>

ForJapanese,addthefollowinglinestotheconfig.xmlfile:

<locale>

<DefaultLocale>ja_JP</DefaultLocale>

</locale>

ForSimplifiedChinese,addthefollowinglinestotheconfig.xmlfile:

<locale>

<DefaultLocale>zh_CN</DefaultLocale>

</locale>

6TypethefollowingcommandstorestartVIWebAccessandhostagentservices:

service mgmt-vmware restart

service vmware-webAccess restart