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Add support for ESXI vm support #1491

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@william-billaud

ESXI allows to generate tech support that contains part of the file system (especially log files). These files are simple tar archive with a subfolder named after hostname and date.

An appropriate loader could ease processing of those files, especially once #1385 will be merged.
E.g

.
└── esx-localhost-2026-01-12--13.56-2107676
    ├── action.log
    ├── altbootbank
    │   └── boot.cfg
    ├── bootbank
    │   ├── boot.cfg
    │   ├── imgdb.tgz
    │   ├── local.tgz
    │   └── onetime.tgz
    ├── commands
    │   ├── 1.localcli_storage-core-device-list---pe-only.txt
<TRUNC>
    │   └── vsish_-e-get-vmkModulestracingstats.txt
    ├── error.log
    ├── errors-ignored.log
    ├── etc
    │   ├── chkconfig.db
    │   ├── group
    │   ├── host.conf
    │   ├── hosts
    │   ├── inittab
    │   ├── krb5.conf
    │   ├── likewise
    │   ├── nscd.conf
    │   ├── nsswitch.conf
    │   ├── ntp.conf
    │   ├── ntp.drift
    │   ├── openwsman
    │   ├── rc.local
    │   ├── rc.local.d
    │   ├── resolv.conf
    │   ├── sfcb
    │   ├── vmsyslog.conf
    │   ├── vmsyslog.conf.d
    │   ├── vmware
    │   └── vmware-tools
    ├── json
    │   ├── 1.localcli_storage-core-device-list---pe-only.json
<TRUNC>
    │   └── localcli_vm-process-list.json
    ├── lib64
    │   └── python3.5
    ├── README
    ├── scratch
    │   └── vmware
    ├── usr
    │   ├── lib
    │   ├── lib64
    │   └── share
    ├── var
    │   ├── lib
    │   ├── log
    │   └── run
    └── vmfs
        ├── devices
        └── volumes

28 directories, 304 files

References

README in those files

Files/Directories of Interest:
------------------------------

error.log: log containing errors that ocurred while running vm-support
action.log: a log of all commands, and/or actions run during vm-support
commands: a directory containing output files for all commands run

All other directories and files should be mirrors of the the ESXi system
vm-support was run on.

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