Installing the XenEnterprise Admin Console on OSX

Here are the steps to get your XenEnterprise Administrative Console running on OSX 10.4.8:

• From the XenEnterprise CD, transfer the files /client-install/xenserver-client-3.1.0-1332.i386.rpm and xenserver-client-jars-3.1.0-1332.i386.rpm to a Linux box.


• On the Linux box, run rpm2targz on both those files, this will create .tar.gz archives of these .rpm files.


• Transfer those two .tar.gz files to your Mac


• On the Mac:



cd /
sudo tar -xzvf ~user/xenserver-client-3.1.0-1332.i386.tar.gz
sudo tar -xzvf ~user/xenserver-client-jars-3.1.0-1332.i386.tar.gz
cd /opt/xensource/xenserver-client/bin



• Edit the file xenserver-client.sh and change:



${BASEDIR}/jre/bin/java \





to





/usr/bin/java



• Start the ./xenserver-client.sh script.

The linux text console is not functional as it shows yellow blocks instead of actual letters. My guess is that it is referring to an non-existant font on OSX.