[CentOS] Vmware - Slightly off topic

Wed Apr 25 14:17:44 UTC 2018
Andrew Holway <andrew.holway at gmail.com>

Packer FTW

On Tuesday, 24 April 2018, Jerry Geis <jerry.geis at 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.
>
> Jerry
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