[CentOS] Help with VMware ESXi manager for CentOS - newbie level

[Keith]

On 06/09/13 02:14, Scott Robbins wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 11:04:51AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:46 AM,  <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> And yes, I'm well aware that ESXi is a modified version of, mmm, is it
>>> still RHEL 3, or have they gone up yet?
>> The linux components were just for the shell-level interaction and I
>> think they are mostly gone now.   In any case, they don't have
>> security updates nearly as often as RHEL/Centos pushes a new kernel
>> which is an advantage for uptime on the guests.
> If I remember correctly (but I'm no longer at that job, so don't have
> access to double check) around VMware 4.x or 5.x it no longer had a Linux
> shell.  Although there are still some commands that work, I _think_ that
> it's now a very stripped down shell, as opposed to 3.5 which had all the
> commands available in a Linux shell. So, if I am correct, then Les has
> summed it up nicely.
>
>

I believe ESXi since it's release has always been based on Busybox, ESX 
was based on RHEL - that's my understanding. I manage vSphere and a 
couple of ESXi (free) hosts and use the VMware CLI tools 
https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?downloadGroup=VSP510-VCLI-510&productId=285 
In addition I'm running a VirtualBox Windows VM to access the vSphere 
console.

Getting the vSphere console working in wine has not been done, and I 
don't even think the Crossover guys have it working either, I looked 
into that a while ago. So I would also just load up a virtualbox win 
machine to access it.