Video surveillance software installation guide

 

This guideline illustrates the installation of the C-MOR Video Surveillance Virtual Machine with the free Virtualization Software VirtualBox from Oracle. The free VM version of C-MOR is here available: http://www.c-mor.com/video-surveillance/download-vm.php.

The first step of the installation is the download of Oracle’s VirtualBox. This package is freely available under http://www.virtualbox.org.

If another virtualisation software like VMware, Xen, HyperV or other is already in use then this can be used instead, if the installation process is known. VirtualBox is available for Windows and for Linux.

Once VirtualBox is installed it will start by clicking on the program icon. Click on “New” in the VirtualBox to start the installation of the new C-MOR VM.

 

        

VirtualBox collects some information about the installation now:

 

The memory (RAM) consuption should be set to 512MB or more, e.g. 7658MB. This depends on the size of the total memory you have in your system left.

After setting up the main memory the hard disk space is set:

 

 

 

 

 

Also the hard disk space which C-MOR will use later should be selected well. The C-MOR installation self consumes about 1,5 Gigabytes disk space. For simple tests the total space of 3 Gigabytes will be enough.

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Prior the just created virtual C-MOR can be started two settings need to be set that the installation runs fine later. Select the just created VM and click on “Settings”.

 

 

 

 

Select “Network” in the left menu and set “Bridged Adapter” for the “Adapter 1” as the “Attached to:” value. This is required to make C-MOR available from the attached network later.

 

 

The second change which needs to be made prior starting the VM is the mounting of the ISO image which covers the C-MOR VM. Select “Storage” in the left menu and change the “IDE Controller” “CD/DVD Device” by clicking on the folder symbol:

 

Select “Add“ in the opening menu and add the ISO Image which was downloaded from the C-MOR web.

Select the file in the menu:

 

 

After the correct selection the storage menu looks like following:

 

 

 

Has the virtual C-MOR been configured the software has to be installed as next step. The C-MOR VM has to be started now by selecting the “C-MOR Virtual Machine” and clicking on the “Start” Button on the left top:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The virtual C-MOR starts with the following start screen which simply needs the Enter key to start the installation program:

 

Right after that the installation menu appears. Select “Automatically” to install the C-MOR VM:

The installation progress is shown:

 

 

After the installation the question “to re-generate your initrd” pops up. This has to be answered with “No”.

The C-MOR Virtual Machine is installed now. Move on by pressing the Enter key:

Before the installation finishes with the command “exit” the CDROM must be un-mounted (ejected) through the Devices menu on top left:

 

After the CDROM was unmounted the command “exit“ finishes the installation. The new C-MOR VM reboots first time now:

 

 

The installation has almost finished. The C-MOR VM starts now and show following start screen:

On the first reboot the network settings will automatically be determined and set to the system.    C-MOR reboots again after this first time settings:

 

Was the installation successful then following screen is shown:

Now you can change the IP address in 2 ways: directly on the console entering the IP parameters or with the IPsetup Tool. The next screenshots illustrates how to set the IP address on the console.

Alternatively use the free IPsetup tool from the C-MOR web download section to setup the correct IP address. The screenshots show how these settings are made. The default login is “admin” with the default password “admin”!

 

 

IPconfig tool:

 

Has the IP address successfully changed then it will be shown in the console. Instead of the IP address 192.168.1.2 the set IP 192.168.88.2 is shown. Now it’s possible with a web browser to access the fresh installed C-MOR with http://192.168.88.2 to move on with the camera settings as described in the manual.

 

Important!

If the installation has failed following console screen is shown. The installation usually has to be made again in this case.