In article CABr8-B6fcNgogynq66nNMkSLCHAtqA4OrL09XY6ABPRV4H+ZQw@mail.gmail.com, Jerry Geis jerry.geis@gmail.com wrote:
Hi All,
What is the correct way to provide a CentOS 7 - WMware image for ESX ?
As an amateur to VMware - I thought - great I can get VMplayer and ESX should be able to import my image... Wrong... I even went through the trouble of "converting" to VMWare workstation and thinking ESX could import that - Apparently still Wrong... I cannot for the life of me understand how one product family is so incompatible with itself. But that is another story.
I just want to be able to provide a pre-built image with CentOS 7 and my other programs on a bootable VMware image that is easily imported into any VMware platform - Workstation, ESX or other.
How is that accomplished ? Thanks for your thoughts and experience.
Looking at the results for https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=how+to+export+a+vmware+image it looks like you need to export a built, working VM as an OVF.
Not sure which VMware products can do that. Possibly Workstation? The old, free VMware server 1.0.10 that I use doesn't appear to have that feature.
You should then be able to copy the OVF file to another VMware host an import it.
Cheers Tony