[chef] Re: Running Chef client in a VMware VSphere 4 Service Console?

[Adam Jacob < >]

If you added the deps, I don't see why it wouldn't work just fine.

Adam

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 6:08 AM, Farzad FARID
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 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have deployed a Chef infrastructure on my customer's site, only on Linux
> systems for now, and I wonder if it's possible to install the Chef client on
> the Service Console of the VMware VSphere 4.x hypervisors?
>
> The VSphere Service Console is a modified Red Hat distribution:
>    # cat /etc/redhat-release
>    Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.1 (Tikanga)
>    # uname -a
>    Linux lsvsphere01 2.6.18-164.ESX #1 Tue Oct 26 03:35:26 PDT 2010 x86_64
> x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> The distribution is not complete, there is no Ruby interpreter, but even
> Perl 5.8.8 & Python 2.4.3 are installed. So I guess it should be feasible to
> install the needed dependency and run a Chef agent.
>
> Has anyone already done this?
>
> Regards,
>
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