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thetechuser11
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‎07-22-2019 04:16 AM

Python on VMware ESXi 6.0.0 Update 1

How to install pip and requests on VMware ESXi 6.0.0 Update 1

My current version of python is Python 2.7.9.

Original requirement is to upgrade python to 3.7.4 and install requests module.

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jburen
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‎07-22-2019 05:20 AM

If you want to install python on an ESXi host... don't... Maybe it looks like linux and maybe it smells like linux, it isn't.

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hamistao
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‎04-25-2022 12:16 PM

i know it's been a long time but i'm curious, why exactly shoudn't i install Python on an ESXi host?

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vbondzio
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‎04-29-2022 02:30 AM

ESXi has a version of Python installed:

[root@esxi:~] python -VV
Python 3.8.8 (default, Oct 13 2021, 02:13:52)
[GCC 4.6.3]
[root@esxi:~] vmware -vl
VMware ESXi 7.0.3 build-19193900
VMware ESXi 7.0 Update 3

What you shouldn't try to do is install updates or additional modules. ESXi is not a general purpose operating system and changes like that are unsupported. Also, you'd need to update via VIB, reduce the acceptance level etc.