• If you have different kinds of VPS, choose the suitable one.

• Scroll down further, and check the ‘VNC password’ enter a new password in the VNC text box. Click to change

• It would immediately prompt for confirmation. Click ‘yes’ and it would reboot the VPS.

• If you have different kinds of VPS, choose the suitable one.

• Scroll down further, and check the ‘root/admin password’ and click on ‘change’

• It would immediately prompt for confirmation. Click ‘yes’

• It could take some time to change your password and then it would display it. Copy your password to notepad

• If you have different kinds of VPS, choose the suitable one.

How to change video type?

• Scroll down further, and check the ‘video’ tab, choose your appropriate video type and reboot VPS.

How to enable a 2D/3D accelerator?

• Scroll down and find the “Video” tab, and if you are willing to disable 3D Acceleration, select the option “Off” from your dropdown list. And if you need to enable it, select “On” from the 2D/3D Acceleration.

• Reboot your VPS

Note: Virtualization such as KVM wouldn’t support 2D/3D Acceleration on different operating systems.

• If you have different kinds of VPS, choose the suitable one.

• Scroll down, and check ‘hostname’, enter the hostname in your text box, present under ‘new hostname’

• Reboot will not be required as the hostname is changed for reference purposes only.

Example hostnames:

server1.example.com
hostingserver.example.com

• If you have different kinds of VPS, choose the suitable one.

• Scroll down further, and check the ‘settings’ tab, you find the ‘disk driver’ option. Choose your appropriate disk driver from the drop-down.

• Reboot VPS

• If you have different kinds of VPS, choose the suitable one.

• Scroll down further, and check the ‘settings’ tab, you find the ‘network card’ option. Choose your appropriate network card.

• Reboot VPS

• Sign in to your SolusVM Control Panel.

• If you have different kinds of VPS, choose the suitable one.

• Scroll down further, and check the ‘settings’ tab, find ACPI, APIC, PAE or VNC. If you need to disable the VNC, then choose the ‘off’ option from the drop-down menu.

• After making all the necessary changes, reboot VPS.

• Sign in to your SolusVM Control Panel.

• If you have different kinds of VPS, choose the suitable one.

• Scroll down further, and check the ‘settings’ tab, change the order to CD ROM, and Hard disk.

• Select the “CDRom” field and if you see that the CD-ROM has been already mounted, then click on unmounts. After that, choose your operating system and click on “Mount”

• Reboot the VPS by choosing “Reboot“, and then you will see a confirmation window. Click ‘yes’ on it

• Quickly click ‘VNC’

• The new page will open quickly and then click on the ‘Java VNC client’ or on the ‘VNC’ button.

• Click “Ok” or enter “Continue” and you will see a “Security Warning“. If it seems Ok, then accept and click the ‘run’ button.

• OS will ask you to “Press any button to start OS Installation” while booting. Press any key on the keyboard and then your OS Installation/Reinstallation would begin. It would show you an option like “Install OS”,  “Test this media”. For OS Installation/Reinstallation, you can select “Install OS” and hit enter.

Once the installation begins while setting up the OS and asks you to create partitions, set-root/admin passwords, etc.

After the installation is complete, don”t forget to set your VPS Boot Order to “(1) Hard Disk (2) CDROM“, otherwise it will reboot your VPS and start in installation mode, instead of normal mode.

• Sign in to your SolusVM Control Panel.

• If you have different kinds of VPS, choose the suitable one.

• Scroll down to find a ‘reinstall’ option

• You may find different options. Choose the operating system which you need to reinstall. Like if you want to install CentOS 7, select it.

• Scroll down and go to the bottom of the page, click “Reinstall“.

• Click ‘yes’ on the confirmation window

It will show you a message that reinstallation will take a few minutes and you will also see admin/root password. Copy this password on notepad as you may need it later to access the VPS account later.

• Sign in to your SolusVM Control Panel.

• If you have different kinds of VPS, choose the suitable one.

• Scroll down to find a ‘VNC’ option

• You will see a new VNC page. Choose “Java VNC Client” or click on “VNC”

• It would immediately prompt you for confirmation. Click “Ok” or enter “Continue” and you will see a “Security Warning“. If it seems Ok, then accept and click the ‘run’ button.

• The VNC Area will resemble the following screenshot:

Note: If you see some kinds of errors like “Java Blocked”, you would need to white-list your VPS control panel in the Java Security List. After that, it would show you “Java plugin not installed”, then you can install Java software on your computer.