Sunday, November 18, 2012

A Daemon's VIB: Building a software package for VMware ESXi (Part 1/3)

Part 1: Binaries

I recently released an Offline Bundle for installing the ProFTP Daemon in ESXi 5.x. This was the result of a self-educational project: The subject of this project was not really how to develop software for ESXi, but how to nicely package software for ESXi in a way that makes it easy to distribute and easy to deploy and use for the average VMware administrator. I chose the example of an FTP daemon, because I already stumbled several times over requests for having this available in ESXi, and I know that there were some hacks for it around since the days of ESXi 3.5.

I promised to share what I have learnt in this project, and I will deliver on this promise in three parts. This first part is about binaries and binary compatibility.

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