Comments on: VMware ESX 4 – use cURL to grab files http://www.vcritical.com/2009/05/vmware-esx-4-use-curl-to-grab-files/ Informed Virtualization Criticism Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:54:25 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Eric Gray http://www.vcritical.com/2009/05/vmware-esx-4-use-curl-to-grab-files/#comment-6681 Eric Gray Wed, 20 May 2009 20:14:34 +0000 http://www.vcritical.com/?p=1056#comment-6681 For downloading a single file, lwp-download and cURL have similar abilities. However, cURL can do so much more, as the <a href="http://curl.haxx.se/docs/manpage.html" rel="nofollow">man page</a> says, "the amount of features will make your head spin!" To be clear, lwp-download is still present in ESX 4. For downloading a single file, lwp-download and cURL have similar abilities. However, cURL can do so much more, as the man page says, “the amount of features will make your head spin!”

To be clear, lwp-download is still present in ESX 4.

]]> By: Iben Rodriguez http://www.vcritical.com/2009/05/vmware-esx-4-use-curl-to-grab-files/#comment-6669 Iben Rodriguez Wed, 20 May 2009 05:29:36 +0000 http://www.vcritical.com/?p=1056#comment-6669 Hi Eric, I've been using lwp-download to do the same thing for some time... $ lwp-download Usage: lwp-download [-a] [] What do you see as the main differences? I b e n http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/libwww-perl-5.826/bin/lwp-download Hi Eric,

I’ve been using lwp-download to do the same thing for some time…

$ lwp-download
Usage: lwp-download [-a] []

What do you see as the main differences?

I b e n

http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/libwww-perl-5.826/bin/lwp-download

]]> By: Tony http://www.vcritical.com/2009/05/vmware-esx-4-use-curl-to-grab-files/#comment-6634 Tony Sun, 17 May 2009 21:23:54 +0000 http://www.vcritical.com/?p=1056#comment-6634 Eric, sorry - I've totally missed the fact that you are uploading ISO to ESX storage directly from internet... for some reason I though you are doing upload from some local share. :) No, fastscp cannot get data from the internet, nor can it make internetz 10 times faster :) Eric, sorry – I’ve totally missed the fact that you are uploading ISO to ESX storage directly from internet… for some reason I though you are doing upload from some local share. :)

No, fastscp cannot get data from the internet, nor can it make internetz 10 times faster :)

]]> By: Eric Gray http://www.vcritical.com/2009/05/vmware-esx-4-use-curl-to-grab-files/#comment-6629 Eric Gray Sun, 17 May 2009 00:11:04 +0000 http://www.vcritical.com/?p=1056#comment-6629 Wow, it makes the Internet 10 times faster? I'm definitely going to look into that! :-) Wow, it makes the Internet 10 times faster? I’m definitely going to look into that! :-)

]]> By: Tony http://www.vcritical.com/2009/05/vmware-esx-4-use-curl-to-grab-files/#comment-6625 Tony Sat, 16 May 2009 18:07:36 +0000 http://www.vcritical.com/?p=1056#comment-6625 Check out http://www.veeam.com/vmware-esxi-fastscp.html It is free and about 10 times faster (looking at your numbers) Check out http://www.veeam.com/vmware-esxi-fastscp.html
It is free and about 10 times faster (looking at your numbers)

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