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PKGSRC on ESXi 7.0 aarch64 (tested on RPI4)
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!!!! This is experimental !!!!!
!!!! Use at your own risk !!!!!
To get servers and outgoin/incoming services up and running
Disable FW (Not recommended :))
[root@armesxi] esxcli network firewall set --enabled false
You also need to enable the TSM and TSM-SSH to get this running
(You can do this on the ESXi web console)
Once done SSH to the ESXi as root ->
Upload pkg.tar via scp or wget (both are available on the ESXi 7.0 aarch64)
to some partition where there is enough space
I have used the OSDATA-xxxxxx under /vmfs/volumes/ since this survives a
reboot and you can always re-create a symlink from there to /usr/pkg
In my example I have pkg extracted in
/vmfs/volumes/OSDATA-5f4e56fc-55f28b49-8343-dca632f6ed8f
Extract the pkg.tar there and symlink to /usr/pkg
Example:
[root@armesxi:~] ln -s /vmfs/volumes/OSDATA-5f4e56fc-55f28b49-8343-dca632f6ed8f/pkg /usr
To find out your OSDATA partition name just run df
[root@armesxi:~] df
Filesystem Bytes Used Available Use% Mounted on
VMFS-L 28454158336 4232052736 24222105600 15% /vmfs/volumes/OSDATA-5f4e56fc-55f28b49-8343-dca632f6ed8f
vfat 1073577984 122028032 951549952 11% /vmfs/volumes/BOOTBANK1
vfat 1073577984 32768 1073545216 0% /vmfs/volumes/BOOTBANK2
You need to then specify the PATHs
/usr/pkg/bin
/usr/pkg/sbin
To add Packages
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Download the tgz binary packages to some temporary folder on the ESXi and then run
[root@armesxi:~] /usr/pkg/sbin_pkgadd /path/to/package.tgz
Enjoy your custom executables on the ESXi
Remember you can use the 1st screen on the ESXi physical console
Just press <ALT+F1> to get to the interactive TSM shell
To return back to the ESXi splash creen hit <ALT+F2>
What works
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dopewars (The legendary drug dealing game - run it with
[root@armesxi:~] /usr/pkg/bin/dopewars -t -f /tmp/scores.dpw
lynx (Hey you always wanted to brose the net from the ESXi console,right?)
pyhon3.8
bash
perl
git
tor (yes why would you need to run tor on the ESXi huh?)
angband
mc
simh
...and many more
What does not work
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elinks (need to recompile with root user support)
links (dies)
irssi (loads but does not connect to servers)