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Punkgeek
Enthusiast
Enthusiast
‎07-04-2017 03:56 AM

chroot to vmdk

Hello,

I've tried to getting vmdk chroot from ESXI command line,

Is there anything to do like API or ...?

Thank you

2 Replies
parmarr
VMware Employee
VMware Employee
‎07-10-2017 03:10 AM

I dont think we have an API for that.

Sincerely, Rahul Parmar VMware Support Moderator
continuum
Immortal
Immortal
‎07-10-2017 06:48 AM

Interesting question.
I often do something similar but then I use chroot from a Linux VM not from ESXi itself.
As far as I know ESXi neither has losetup nor chroot ...


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