Running on Windows

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rlane edited this page Apr 21, 2011 · 5 revisions

RVC works best on a Unix-like operating system, but it works well enough on Windows to be useful.

Eric Sloof has a screencast showing how to install RVC 1.2 on Windows: http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/1738-Video-Latest-fling-from-VMware-Labs-Ruby-vSphere-Console.html. The installation procedure is unchanged, but RVC should work better now than it did back then.

There is also a standalone Windows binary available: https://github.com/downloads/vmware/rvc/rvc-1.3.6.exe. This contains Ruby and all the dependencies.

Instructions:

Install the latest Ruby from rubyinstaller.org. Tell it to put Ruby in your path.
Open a command prompt.
If necessary, configure a proxy with a command like set http_proxy=http://proxy.example.com:8080.
gem install rvc --no-ri --no-rdoc
rvc hostname

Things that still don't work:

Colors.
Task progress bars.
Tab completing paths with spaces.
Operations that spawn an editor unless EDITOR is set or you have vi installed.