HI
I have use esxi 5.5 now i want to know how can install an opensource package on it ?
Best regards
Babak
what do i have to do ?
please help me
how can install an opensource package on esxi 5.5 ?
Short answer: download, compile, pack, convert, install.
Long answer: you can try it, but it is really not easy. First you have to compile package on some other box, and pack it to tgz. Even this is a little complicated by the fact that esxi is not "full" OS. It is missing a lot of libraries (not needed for hypervisor), so you have to compile your application with all it might need (that's why you can not use some ready-made binary and you have to tweak make-files before compilation).
Then you have to re-pack it into VMware Installation Bundle (vib). You can use "Community Packaging Tool" for this.
VMware Front Experience: ESXi5 Community Packaging Tools
Then you can install it on ESXi as any other "vib". But this works only for quite simple packages, i.e. drivers. You can find some packages for ESXi here:
https://vibsdepot.v-front.de/wiki/index.php/List_of_currently_available_ESXi_packages
But if you plan to install something huge (i.e. full web-server), you can right now forget about it. ESXi is NOT fully-functional, complete operating system (as ESX4 was). ESXi is light-weight hypervisor, and it does its job very well.
thanks but i use that steps and i convert a tgz package to vib and attach the vib file i install this vib without error but in /etc/init.d there is not any folder for this package
now what is problem ?
what do i have to do ?
can you install this vib file on your esxi lab ?
Best regards
Babak
