OpenEMR Appliance Help and Tips

1. HowTo: Auto-start the VMPlayer in Windows
   
   

• Make a desktop shortcut for the Virtual-Appliance.vmx file on the desktop .
• RightClick Shortcut.
• Choose default program
• This connection with VMPlayer has only to be made once. Windows will remember this choice.
• Choose VMPlayer from already installed programs => SAVE
• Now Double Click Shortcut and VMPlayer will start and you can use the Browser with the suggested defaults.
• Be sure to make a static IP address, to login with a Browser-homepage startup with something like https://192.168.1.101, be sure to use the correct IP address as suggested in VMPlayer opening screen.
• If confronted with a blank-screen in VMPlayer: Double click with mouse in VMPlayer and hit CTR-key.
• To leave the VMPlayer and go back to Windows OS hit CTR+ALT
• If Shortcut is entered in Start menu in Windows, the part of DoubleClick the Shortcut can be omitted and VMPlayer is ready to use.
• Put the shortcut in C:/Documents and Settings/USER/Start Menu/Programs/Startup this will automatically starts the VMPlayer when the account loads.
  
  

1. For effective work in VMPlayer Appliance

• Be sure to do an update of the Ubuntu database first: sudo apt-get update , do this within the VMPlayer, with Login and Password.
• This makes the database for Ubuntu programs ready for install different Ubuntu programms.
  
  

1. Improve Ubuntu text-files read and change in OpenEMR Appliance.
   
   

• Install the full vim with sudo apt-get install vim for future versions since the vim included does not do syntax coloring.