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Weasel for ESX

Weasel is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation version 2 and no later version.

Weasel is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License version 2 for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.

ABOUT WEASEL

Weasel is a replacement for Red Hat Linux's Anaconda installer and is used for installing ESX 4. As such, it normally runs from a Red Hat Enterprise 3 "Console OS" running underneath VMware ESX Server.

Weasel is written almost entirely in Python, and supports a fairly robust set of features including:

graphical installation
text based installation
scripted (kickstart) installation
multiple types of boot media including CD-ROM, DVD, USB, and PXE
network based installation through http, ftp and nfs
asynchronous storage and network driver disks
support for creating multiple filesystem types including ext3 and vmfs
installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux into a special container called the "Console VMDK"
extensive unit tests which can be run to validate the installer code
dynamic partition checking to ensure that any set of partitions will be able to house the operating system at installation time.

The graphical installation front end uses the PyGTK library and each screen was created with the glade tool.

SUPPORT

For support for Weasel, please check with VMware's Community Forums at:

http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/vsphere/upgradecenter

RUNNING WEASEL

Running Weasel is different than running other Linux-based operating system installers. Even though it was developed to run on top of the Linux based Console OS and shares many concepts with installers such as Anaconda like RPM based packaging, Weasel will not run directly on Linux. There is no direct module support for loading modules; in the ESX installer this is taken care of by initscripts which are executed before the installer is run and at the module load stage.

It is however possible to test Weasel in Linux. To start the graphical installer from the weasel directory, invoke the command:

$ python test/caged_weasel.py weasel.py --nox

Name		Name	Last commit message	Last commit date
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esxcfg-py		esxcfg-py
examples		examples
gui		gui
migration		migration
networking		networking
scriptedinstall		scriptedinstall
test		test
textui		textui
util		util
README.md		README.md
applychoices.py		applychoices.py
boot_cmdline.py		boot_cmdline.py
bootloader.py		bootloader.py
brandiso.py		brandiso.py
cdutil.py		cdutil.py
consts.py		consts.py
createinstdepot.py		createinstdepot.py
customdrivers.py		customdrivers.py
datastore.py		datastore.py
debugging.py		debugging.py
devices.py		devices.py
dispatch.py		dispatch.py
drivereula.txt		drivereula.txt
esxconf.py		esxconf.py
esxlicense.py		esxlicense.py
eula.txt		eula.txt
exception.py		exception.py
firewall.py		firewall.py
fsset.py		fsset.py
fstab.py		fstab.py
grubupdate.py		grubupdate.py
gui.py		gui.py
iscsi.py		iscsi.py
isolinux.cfg		isolinux.cfg
keyboard.xml		keyboard.xml
ks-upgrade.cfg		ks-upgrade.cfg
ks.cfg		ks.cfg
log.py		log.py
media.py		media.py
migrate.py		migrate.py
mouse.xml		mouse.xml
packages.py		packages.py
partition.py		partition.py
pciidlib.py		pciidlib.py
precheck.py		precheck.py
regexlocator.py		regexlocator.py
remote_files.py		remote_files.py
review.py		review.py
script.py		script.py
scui.py		scui.py
services.py		services.py
singleton.py		singleton.py
startx.py		startx.py
systemsettings.py		systemsettings.py
task_progress.py		task_progress.py
tidy.py		tidy.py
timedate.py		timedate.py
timezone.py		timezone.py
timezone.xml		timezone.xml
usbmedia.py		usbmedia.py
userchoices.py		userchoices.py
users.py		users.py
vua-standin.sh		vua-standin.sh
weasel.py		weasel.py
weasel.xml		weasel.xml
workarounds.py		workarounds.py

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