We received a VM in a .bz2 file. I'm on the Host in Tech Support Mode. Is there a bunzip2 utility in ESXi 4.1? If so how would I run it?
The file came to us in the format clone.tar.bz2
The console for ESXi relies on Busybox for common utilities such as gunzip and tar. While the latest builds of Busybox do include bunzip2, the version used for ESXi does not. It only includes the following utilities:
Currently defined functions:
[, [[, addgroup, adduser, ash, awk, basename, cat, chgrp,
chmod, chown, chroot, chvt, cksum, clear, cp, crond, cut,
date, dd, delgroup, deluser, df, diff, dirname, du, echo,
egrep, eject, env, expr, false, fdisk, fgrep, find, ftpget,
ftpput, getty, grep, groupadd, groupdel, groups, gunzip,
gzip, halt, head, hexdump, hostname, id, inetd, init,
kill, ln, loadkmap, lockfile, logger, login, ls, md5sum,
mkdir, mkfifo, mknod, mktemp, more, mount, mv, nohup,
nslookup, od, passwd, poweroff, printf, readlink, reboot,
reset, resize, rm, rmdir, sed, seq, setsid, sh, sha1sum,
sleep, sort, stat, stty, su, sum, sync, syslogd, tail,
tar, tee, test, time, touch, true, umount, uname, uniq,
uptime, useradd, userdel, usermod, usleep, vi, watch,
wc, wget, which, whoami, xargs, zcat
/bin #
The console for ESXi relies on Busybox for common utilities such as gunzip and tar. While the latest builds of Busybox do include bunzip2, the version used for ESXi does not. It only includes the following utilities:
Currently defined functions:
[, [[, addgroup, adduser, ash, awk, basename, cat, chgrp,
chmod, chown, chroot, chvt, cksum, clear, cp, crond, cut,
date, dd, delgroup, deluser, df, diff, dirname, du, echo,
egrep, eject, env, expr, false, fdisk, fgrep, find, ftpget,
ftpput, getty, grep, groupadd, groupdel, groups, gunzip,
gzip, halt, head, hexdump, hostname, id, inetd, init,
kill, ln, loadkmap, lockfile, logger, login, ls, md5sum,
mkdir, mkfifo, mknod, mktemp, more, mount, mv, nohup,
nslookup, od, passwd, poweroff, printf, readlink, reboot,
reset, resize, rm, rmdir, sed, seq, setsid, sh, sha1sum,
sleep, sort, stat, stty, su, sum, sync, syslogd, tail,
tar, tee, test, time, touch, true, umount, uname, uniq,
uptime, useradd, userdel, usermod, usleep, vi, watch,
wc, wget, which, whoami, xargs, zcat
/bin #
OK. I'll download and use Cygwin to extract the tar file then move it to the Hosts and use tar from there. Thanks for the quick response.