1 Download & Extract Vm

2 Vmware config
-set vmware network card to use NAT

3 Start-up & Login

Now you can double-click on the File "SLES10SP1_Test_Drive.vmx" to start the virtual machine. At this
first start you have to answer this dialog with "I copied it":

The boot process will start automatically. After some seconds you will see the boot screen:

If you want to see what the system is doing in the background you can click into the VMWare window and
press ALT + F2. Then the startup console is displayed:

After the system has booted you can logon with Username "root" (lower-case) and the Password
"sap123":
4 Set network card not to use DNS over DHCP
Set hostname to n4shost
Make sure that /etc/hosts doesnt contain entry 127.0.0.2

4 Install license
The SAP Application server is not started automatically. Fist you have to start the "Gnome Terminal" to
get a command-line. Please be aware that the keyboard layout is set to "German". I've described how to
change that to "English" in Chapter "5.2 Keyboard layout".

There you can switch your user-id to using the command "su - n4sadm".

3.2 Start-up the Application Server

To install the license we have to start-up the Application server. Do that using the command "startsap
n4shost" after a while you will get the message, that the Instance was started:

If you encounter an error saying "Database is not running" during this process try the command
"db2start" before you use "startsap n4shost".
3.3 Prepare license file for import

Now you can minimize the Terminal window to see the desktop. To import the license we have to create
an empty file on the desktop by a right-click:

Request new license here

https://websmp230.sap-ag.de/sap(bD1jcyZjPTAwMQ==)/bc/bsp/spn/minisap/minisap.htm

3.4 Install license

Now double-click on the SAPGUI icon on the desktop.

Choose the N4S system from the list and start the connection by clicking on "Connect":

Logon as user "sap*" with password "******":

Start the transaction "SLICENSE":

Click on the Button "New Licenses":

Then click the import button:

Open the "Desktop" folder in the "Open" dialog:

Choose the "N4S.txt" file:

When you've done that you should get a sucess message:

That was the final step. Now logoff and logon as user "developer" with password "developer".

4 Access the system

4.1 Java Stack

To access the Java Stack of the server you have to use a Web-Browser and access http://<IP-
address>:54200/. When you've just installed the license you first have to restart the application server by
issuing the command "stopsap n4shost" and "startsap n4shost" from the command-line as user
"n4shost".

4.2 ABAP Stack

If you want to connect to the ABAP Stack from an external system you can use this settings for SAP GUI:
5 Troubeshooting

5.1 Proxy configuration

If you want to access the Internet from inside the virtual machine, you have to reconfigure the proxy
settings. Unfortunately they are set for SAP internal use. So if you want to access your license key e-mail
via the browser you have to change this settings. Start Firefox:

Click Edit > Preferences > Advanced Tab > Settings button. Choose 'Direct connection to the internet' if
you're using the virtual machine at home behind a NAT-router. In a corporate environment you have to
ask your friendly network support guy's to provide you the right configuration. Also you can look it up
from your actual browser you use to read this blog.

5.2 Keyboard layout

Unfortunately they keyboard in the virtual machine is set to a german keyboard layout. To change this in
the SuSE Linux Enterprise Server you have to use the YaST configuration tool:
Click on the Group "System". There you will find the "Keyboard Layout". You have to doubleclick to start
the configuration.

From the "Layout"-list choose "U.S. English". Click OK to apply this setting.

Then you have to confirm the setting by clicking "Save"

Please also notice the next message which indicates that you have to log-off / log-on to apply this
settings