topic chroot to vmdk in VMware vCenter™ Discussions https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vCenter-Discussions/chroot-to-vmdk/m-p/1810384#M25536 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello,</P><P>I've <SPAN style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">tried</SPAN> to getting vmdk chroot from ESXI command line,</P><P>Is there anything to do like API or ...?</P><P>Thank you</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 04 Jul 2017 10:56:08 GMT Punkgeek 2017-07-04T10:56:08Z chroot to vmdk https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vCenter-Discussions/chroot-to-vmdk/m-p/1810384#M25536 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello,</P><P>I've <SPAN style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">tried</SPAN> to getting vmdk chroot from ESXI command line,</P><P>Is there anything to do like API or ...?</P><P>Thank you</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 04 Jul 2017 10:56:08 GMT https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vCenter-Discussions/chroot-to-vmdk/m-p/1810384#M25536 Punkgeek 2017-07-04T10:56:08Z Re: chroot to vmdk https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vCenter-Discussions/chroot-to-vmdk/m-p/1810385#M25537 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I dont think we have an API for that.</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 10 Jul 2017 10:10:28 GMT https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vCenter-Discussions/chroot-to-vmdk/m-p/1810385#M25537 parmarr 2017-07-10T10:10:28Z Re: chroot to vmdk https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vCenter-Discussions/chroot-to-vmdk/m-p/1810386#M25538 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Interesting question.<BR />I often do something similar but then I use chroot from a Linux VM not from ESXi itself.<BR />As far as I know ESXi neither has losetup nor chroot ...</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 10 Jul 2017 13:48:20 GMT https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vCenter-Discussions/chroot-to-vmdk/m-p/1810386#M25538 continuum 2017-07-10T13:48:20Z