You can use the Virgo server from the Eclipse IDE in your development environment to test easily your HTML plug-ins. This step is required only if you use the Eclipse IDE for developing HTML plug-ins.

Prerequisites

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Configure the proxy to be used for your development machine. For more information, see Set Up the Eclipse Integrated Development Environment.

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Register your local vSphere Client with a vCenter Server instance. See Register Your Local vSphere Client with the vCenter Server Instance.

Procedure
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Start Eclipse on your development machine.

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From Help > Install New Software ..., click Add in the Install dialog box.

The Add Repository dialog box appears.

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In the Name text box, enter a name for the Virgo server tools and in the Location text box, enter http://download.eclipse.org/virgo/snapshot/tooling.

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From the displayed software, select Eclipse Virgo Tools and click Next.

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Check the installation details and accept the license agreement.

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Click Finish to complete the wizard.

Click OK on the warning pop-up dialog box that shows up during the installation process.

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Restart your Eclipse SDK to apply the changes.

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When Eclipse starts again, go to Window > Show View > Servers, right-click in the Servers view, and select New > Server.

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In the New Server wizard, select EclipseRT > Virgo Runtime and click Next.

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Use the Browse button to navigate to the your_SDK_folder\vsphere-client-sdk\html-client-sdk\vsphere-ui\server directory on your development machine.

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Click Finish to complete the Virgo server creation.

What to do next

Before you start the local Virgo server application, you must register the server with a vCenter Server instance. See Register Your Local vSphere Client with the vCenter Server Instance.

You must reconfigure also the following settings:

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Set the VMWARE_CFG_DIR environmental variable in the Edit Configuration dialog box that opens when you select Open launch configuration from the General Information pane.

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In a Mac OS development environment, click the Environment tab and set the /var/lib/vmware/vsphere-client value to the variable.

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In a Windows development environment, click the Environment tab and set the C:/ProgramData/VMware/vCenterServer/cfg/ value to the variable.

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From the Overview page of the Virgo server instance that opens when you double-click in the instance in the Server view, configure the following options:

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From the Server Startup Configuration pane, select the Tail application trace files into Console view and Start server with -clean option startup options.

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From the Redeploy Behavior pane, remove the *.xml file extension.

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From the General Information pane, select Open launch configuration. Click the Arguments tab and under VM arguments add the following lines at the end of the text: 

-XX:+CMSClassUnloadingEnabled
-XX:MaxPermSize=512m

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