Kaltura CE V4.0 - Setting Up the Kaltura CE VMware Image

This guide is applicable for Kaltura CE version 4.0.x

The Kaltura CE V4 VMware image is a Linux VMware image, based on the CentOS 5.6 Linux distribution (64-bit) and pre-installed with the Kaltura CE software. You can run this Linux VMware image on a 64-bit PC desktop using a VMware player application, or on your virtualized server farm using the VMware ESXi server.
The size of the compressed Kaltura CE VMware package is approximately 1.3 GB. The size of the extracted package is around 16 GB, mostly used for the default pre-allocated virtual disk space.

Please Note: To enable the full functionality of Kaltura CE, it is important that you host the VMware image on a desktop/server that will enable continuous use with no power shutdowns and no changes in network settings.

Package Defaults:

• Kaltura application base directory: /opt/kaltura
• Linux system user: root
• Linux system root password: kaltura
• Database user: root
• Database password: [no password]

Setting Up the VMware image to run with VMware player

1. Download and unrar using WinRAR 4+, the image to your PC desktop

2. Download a VMware player application

   Browse to VMware’s VMware player download page at https://www.vmware.com/products/player/ and download the free VMware player application to anywhere on your desktop computer. For more information on working with a VMware player, please refer to the VMware player FAQ documentation

3. Open the Kaltura CE VMware image
   Run the VMware player you downloaded and installed and open the Kaltura CE VMware image

   

4. Adjust your virtual machine settings
   Note: If you are running the Kaltura CE VMware image on a personal desktop computer within an organization network, you may want to consult your IT manager on the effect of the following settings.
   a. Set your network adapter (Mandatory)
   To enable web access to the Kaltura CE running within the VMware player, open the VMware player’s Virtual Machine Settings application and go to the Network Adapter setting page at the Hardware tab and set it to the required network connection.

   

   

   The VMware image should enable HTTP traffic on port 80

   b. Set your virtual machine memory (optional)
   To enable sufficient memory resources for your Kaltura CE, you may set a 1GB memory for your VMware machine

   

   c. Set the number of your virtual machine processors (optional)
   To enable sufficient processing resources for transcoding tasks within your Kaltura CE, you should enable at least 2 processor cores for your VMware machine. The Kaltura CE installation is configured to support 2 simultaneous instances of transcoding tasks.

   

   d. Set your virtual machine disk space (optional)
   The Kaltura CE VMware image is pre-allocated with 15 GB of disk space. If you want to upload a large number of rich-media assets, you may increase this disk space from the virtual machine settings (select the Utilities-> Expand option)



5. Run the Kaltura CE VMware image within your VMware Player. Your server will then initiate its services, until reaching the Linux command shell login. During server initiation, all services required for the Kaltura CE are activated as well.

   

   

6. Log into your Linux command shell as a root user with the password: kaltura and run the ifconfig command.

   

   Copy the IP address assigned to the VM and use it for mapping it to the Kaltura CE service domain name you want to use. mapping can be done either within your organization internal network settings or simply by adding a line to your local desktop HOSTS file:

   VMware-machine-assigned-IP-address  your-Kaltura-CE-domain-name

   Example:

   123.456.789.101   video.mydomain.com

7. Run the Kaltura CE local configuration script from the Linux command shell of the VMware image

Additional Patches:

To fix the issues found post release, please follow the below steps:

• Change permissions for /opt/kaltura/log and /opt/kaltura/app/cache -
  
  chmod 777 –R /opt/kaltura/log
  chmod 777 –R /opt/kaltura/app/cache
• Edit /opt/kaltura/app/alpha/config/kConfLocal.php and replace the host value in the following section from 127.0.0.1 to localhost -
  
  'sphinx' =>
          array (
            'adapter' => 'mysql',
            'connection' =>
            array (
                  'dsn' => 'mysql:host=127.0.0.1;port=9312;',
            ),
          ),

  to:

  'sphinx' =>
          array (
            'adapter' => 'mysql',
            'connection' =>
            array (
                  'dsn' => 'mysql:host=localhost;port=9312;',
            ),
          ),