用vibauthor tool 制作VIB Package

1. What's a VIB ?

https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2011/09/whats-in-a-vib.html

You cannot add services without installing a VIB.

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/com.vmware.vsphere.security.doc/GUID-37AB1F95-DDFD-4A5D-BD49-3249386FFADE.html

Every time when ESXi reboot, files not installed by VIBs would be deleted. The files would be removed when the VIB is removed too.

2. how to make customer VIBs?

2.1. prepare builder environment

2.1.1. host environment

note: 1. download vibauthor tool   http://labs.vmware.com/flings/vib-author

         2. the vibauthor tool is depended on python2.6 , so the builder is better be CentOS6 which is using python2.6 by default. 

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yum install glibc.i686 yum install -y python-lxml wget https://download3.vmware.com/software/vmw-tools/vibauthor/vmware-esx-vib-author-5.0.0-0.0.847598.i386.rpm rpm -i vmware-esx-vib-author-5.0.0-0.0.847598.i386.rpm

2.1.2. docker environment