Installing EminentWare Provider on virtualbox

Hi Jeff,

You can definitely install the provider manually.  To locate the .msi package, look in the filesystem on the EminentWare server in the following directory (assuming the default install path): C:\program files\eminentware\server\packages\eminentware.  In that directory, you'll see a file like wmiproviders_1.40.126.msi.  That is the WMI provider and you can move it to wherever and just double-click it to launch the install.

Now, I have no idea if it will run with virtualbox, as I'm not familiar with that.  I can tell you that we have a number of clients using VMWare and VPC VMs with no problems.

John

Just to let you know what I found out about this issue.

Yes it will work on a Ubuntu machine running virtualbox for a windows machine.

However you will need to set your virtualbox up with a bridged network adapter instead of the "Network Address Translation" (NAT) mode which virtualbox uses by default.

for example on my machine I had to setup a bridged adapter on my linux wlan0 adapter.  This allows the virtualbox to obtain a true network ip instead of receiving a generic 10.0.*.* address from virtualbox.

My co-worker said he has run into previous issues of Ubuntu not liking the bridged network adapter setup.  I am running the most recent version of Ubuntu, and version 3.1.0 r55467 of virtualbox, and it worked the first time I set it up.

Jeff

Hey Jeff,

Glad to hear that it worked out and thanks for the update.  Now I can probably talk someone into letting me get a linux box ;-)

John