The VMware Converter product CONVERTS a physical, or virtual, system to one that resides on ESX/ESXi. Ghost 4 Linux is just that a package made to ghost/clone a Linux system from one set of hardware (physical OR virtual) to another (physical OR virtual). IF you bothered to read ANY of the documentation readily available about either product you would understand this.
Ghost for Linux runs on LINUX SYSTEMS ... Not a difficult concept to understand, is it?? Again, readily available on the web page. It only mentions Windows as being a place where it can store images, hence the CIFS support comment... IF you clicked on the "Show project details" button on the page on Sourceforge.net you would see the "Operating Systems: Linux" line... Right there in black and blue... The "Programming Language: Unix Shell" should have been another clue that it's a Linux/Unix only app. The release I had originally used was back in the upper 20's, probably something between .24 and .26 (time line looks about right). Since moving to ESXi I've not needed the product since I create ALL my servers on my ESXi host. I can't see ever creating a server as a stand-alone box again. At least not while I have ESX/ESXi available to me.
I also have a feeling you're using the term "images" improperly. Images, when it comes to computers/IT, are what you use to create NEW systems for deployment. Such as imaging a desktop before deploying it. Images are typicially created with the base level of software that the majority of users need, to make deploying machines easier/faster. I've been able to create processes, using proper tools, that image desktops in about 20 minutes. It would take longer than that to JUST install the OS onto the exact same systems. The images also had software like Office Pro, and a variety of third party apps (most of them normally requiring reboots between installs).
"Deploy from Template" is a type of imaging process that you can use inside ESX/ESXi.
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