4.1 Launching the VM Management Interface

The VM Management interface should have been previously installed to your workstation. For more information, see Installing the VM Management Interface in the Novell ZENworks Orchestrator 1.2 Installation and Getting Started Guide.

To launch the VM Management interface:

  1. On your workstation, do one of the following:

    • If you installed the Novell Virtual Machine Management icon on your desktop (Linux or Windows), double-click it.

    • (Linux only) To use the command terminal, change to the /opt/novell/zenworks/vmmanagement/bin/ directory and enter the following command:

      ./run_nvmm.sh

  2. Close the Welcome pages to display the following login window:

  3. Enter the IP address of the server running the VM Warehouse and VM Builder.

  4. Enter a username and password with root privileges on the VM Warehouse/Builder server, then click Login.

    If there is a version compatibility issue, the following dialog box is displayed:

    Review the data, click OK, then resolve the issue in order to use that server.