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

Part 3: Packaging, SecPolicy and VisorFS

This is the third and last part of the "Daemon's VIB" series about building a software package for ESXi, using the example of the ProFTPD Offline Bundle that I recently released. In the first part I explained how to get (or create yourself) suitable binaries for ESXi, in the second part we cared about the Daemon's configuration, firewall settings and automatic startup. In this last part we will
   a) build and install the actual software package
   b) deal with the VMkernel access security policies and
   c) make the service configurable to adapt to your own needs.

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