topic Re: Python on VMware ESXi 6.0.0 Update 1 in ESXi Discussions

Python on VMware ESXi 6.0.0 Update 1

thetechuser11 — Mon, 22 Jul 2019 11:16:05 GMT

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.

Re: Python on VMware ESXi 6.0.0 Update 1

jburen — Mon, 22 Jul 2019 12:20:43 GMT

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.

Re: Python on VMware ESXi 6.0.0 Update 1

hamistao — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 19:16:35 GMT

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

Re: Python on VMware ESXi 6.0.0 Update 1

vbondzio — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 09:30:33 GMT

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.