1.) Extracting the needed files.

There are several Website and PDFs which describe who to extract files from the ESX(i) ISO.

I preferre the simple way. Just install the ESX via CD to any hardware which is supported and navigate to "/store". All files you need are just below and they are already in the right folders.

It is easy to copy them via ssh to any other linux box you like to use for building the oem.tgz.

2.) Folder structure for oem.tzg

Prepare the following folder and file structure containg the extracted and some new files. All files in the .locker folder are taken from "/store".

The listing show files from ESXi 4.0 Update 1 Build 208167. If you use another version as base the files may differ.

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.locker/
.locker/packages/
.locker/packages/4.0.0/
.locker/packages/4.0.0/tools-upgraders/
.locker/packages/4.0.0/tools-upgraders/run_upgrader.sh
.locker/packages/4.0.0/tools-upgraders/vmware-tools-upgrader-32
.locker/packages/4.0.0/tools-upgraders/vmware-tools-upgrader-64
.locker/packages/4.0.0/tools-upgraders/VMwareToolsUpgrader.exe
.locker/packages/4.0.0/tools-upgraders/VMwareToolsUpgrader9x.exe
.locker/packages/4.0.0/tools-upgraders/VMwareToolsUpgraderNT.exe
.locker/packages/4.0.0/floppies/
.locker/packages/4.0.0/floppies/vmscsi-1.2.1.0-signed.flp
.locker/packages/4.0.0/floppies/pvscsi-1.0.0.5-signed-Windows2003.flp
.locker/packages/4.0.0/floppies/pvscsi-1.0.0.5-signed-Windows2008.flp
.locker/packages/4.0.0/vmtools/
.locker/packages/4.0.0/vmtools/freebsd.iso.sig
.locker/packages/4.0.0/vmtools/freebsd.iso
.locker/packages/4.0.0/vmtools/linux.iso.sig
.locker/packages/4.0.0/vmtools/linux.iso
.locker/packages/4.0.0/vmtools/netware.iso.sig
.locker/packages/4.0.0/vmtools/netware.iso
.locker/packages/4.0.0/vmtools/solaris.iso.sig
.locker/packages/4.0.0/vmtools/solaris.iso
.locker/packages/4.0.0/vmtools/tools-key.pub
.locker/packages/4.0.0/vmtools/windows.iso.sig
.locker/packages/4.0.0/vmtools/windows.iso
.locker/packages/4.0.0/vmtools/winPre2k.iso.sig
.locker/packages/4.0.0/vmtools/winPre2k.iso
.locker/packages/4.0.0/client/
.locker/packages/4.0.0/client/VMware-viclient.exe
.locker/packages/usr/
.locker/packages/usr/lib/
.locker/packages/usr/lib/ipkg/
.locker/packages/usr/lib/ipkg/info/
.locker/packages/usr/lib/ipkg/info/vmware-esx-tools-light.list
.locker/packages/usr/lib/ipkg/info/vmware-esx-viclient.list
.locker/packages/usr/lib/ipkg/info/vmware-esx-tools-light.control
.locker/packages/usr/lib/ipkg/info/vmware-esx-viclient.control
.locker/packages/usr/lib/ipkg/status
.locker/conf/
.locker/db/
etc/
etc/vmware/
etc/vmware/init/
etc/vmware/init/init.d/
etc/vmware/init/init.d/82.locker-remap
etc/vmware/init/init.d/71.prep-pxe
sbin/
sbin/remapLocker
sbin/prepPXE

3.) Needed files to prepare the use

Some extra files are needed to activate the new /locker structure on the target ESX server.

./etc/vmware/init/init.d/71.prep-pxe

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#!/bin/sh
 
Exec /sbin/prepPXE

./etc/vmware/init/init.d/82.locker-remap

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#!/bin/sh
 
Exec /sbin/remapLocker

./sbin/prepPXE

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#!/bin/ash
 
export PATH=/sbin:/bin
 
log() {
   echo "$1"
   logger prepPXE "$1"
}
 
configFile="/etc/vmware/locker.conf"
rm $configFile

./sbin/remapLocker

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#!/bin/ash
 
export PATH=/sbin:/bin
 
log() {
   echo "$1"
   logger remapLocker "$1"
}
 
scratch=$(ls -l /locker |awk '{print $NF}')
log "/scratch is $scratch"
 
rm /scratch
ln -s $scratch /scratch
 
mkdir -p $scratch/var/tmp
mkdir -p $scratch/downloads
 
locker="/.locker"
configFile="/etc/vmware/locker.conf"
 
log "/locker is $locker"
 
rm /locker
ln -s $locker /locker
 
mkdir -p $locker/etc/opt
mkdir -p $locker/var/opt
mkdir -p $locker/opt
mkdir -p $locker/packages/4.0.0
mkdir -p $locker/var/core
mkdir -p $locker/vmupgrade
 
echo $locker 1 >$configFile

4.) Prepare and transfer to oem.tgz

Now we have to prepare and compress the folder structure into the needed oem.tgz

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chown -R 201:201 .[a-zA-Z0-9_]* *
 
chmod -R 755 .[a-zA-Z0-9_]* *
 
# Compress all files and folder to the oem,tgz
tar -czvf /root/oem.tgz .[a-zA-Z0-9_]* *