Enabling Scripted Installation on ESX 3.5

Taken from the VMware ESX Installation Guide - page 104

After you install ESX Server on a system, you must enable the scripted installation

feature before you can use Web Access to create an installation script.

To enable scripted installation

1 Log in to the ESX Server service console as root.

2 Open the following file in a text editor such as vi:

/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-5.5.17/webapps/ui/WEB-INF/struts-config.xml

3 Locate the scripted section.

4 Comment out the line reading:

type="org.apache.struts.actions.ForwardAction"

parameter="/WEB-INF/jsp/scriptedInstall/disabled.jsp" />

5 Uncomment the following lines:

6 Save and close the file.

7 Type service vmware-webAccess restart.