I's really the delicate side of dealing with VMware. CloudStack has it's hands tied do to vCenter control. I can tell you from experience working with MORs and vCAPI, they don't play nicely or easily with the structure/framework CloudStack has.
>-----Original Message----- >From: Paul Angus [mailto:paul.an...@shapeblue.com] >Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 11:12 AM >To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org >Subject: RE: AS4.1 with VMware System VMs > >I should be able to, rolling my own system VMs isn't something I've played with >yet. (there's a first time for everything :-) ) > >It'd be 'simplest' if CloudStack could specify an IDE disk upon creation though >wouldn't it? > >Regards, > >Paul Angus >S: +44 20 3603 0540 | M: +447711418784 >paul.an...@shapeblue.com > >-----Original Message----- >From: Kelcey Damage (BT) [mailto:kel...@backbonetechnology.com] >Sent: 02 May 2013 19:07 >To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org >Subject: RE: AS4.1 with VMware System VMs > >Exactly. Could you build a centos system VM? > > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Paul Angus [mailto:paul.an...@shapeblue.com] >>Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 11:05 AM >>To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org >>Subject: RE: AS4.1 with VMware System VMs >> >>I'm afraid it's not that simple, once the disk is created as either >>scsi or >ide you >>can't change it... >> >>Vm from importing the ova directly(boots ok): >http://i.imgur.com/rLShX89.png >>System vm created by cloudstack: http://i.imgur.com/LeXHOCV.png >> >> >> >>Regards, >> >>Paul Angus >>S: +44 20 3603 0540 | M: +447711418784 >>paul.an...@shapeblue.com >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Musayev, Ilya [mailto:imusa...@webmd.net] >>Sent: 02 May 2013 18:57 >>To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org >>Subject: RE: AS4.1 with VMware System VMs >> >>Switch controller to IDE in vmware to see if it helps, just to confirm >>its controller related. >> >>Regards >>ilya >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Kelcey Damage (BT) [mailto:kel...@backbonetechnology.com] >>> Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 1:41 PM >>> To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org >>> Subject: RE: AS4.1 with VMware System VMs >>> >>> This comment made my day. >>> >>> (Side note, VMware only claims easy provisioning functionality with >>> RHEL derivatives and Ubuntu) >>> >>> You could re-pack your system VM with the needed virtual scsi driver >>> support I think? >>> >>> >-----Original Message----- >>> >From: Chip Childers [mailto:chip.child...@sungard.com] >>> >Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 10:38 AM >>> >To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org >>> >Subject: Re: AS4.1 with VMware System VMs >>> > >>> >On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 05:33:47PM +0000, Paul Angus wrote: >>> >> Hi, >>> >> >>> >> My system VMs are being created with a SCSI controller rather than >>> >> an IDE >>> >controller so they just come up with a screen that says 'GRUB' does >>> >anyone have any ideas why this might happen? >>> >> >>> >> (I THINK I built a nonoss repo.) >>> > >>> >You wouldn't have any VMware functionality if you didn't do non-oss. >>> >> >> >> >>This email and any attachments to it may be confidential and are >>intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. >>Any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do >>not necessarily represent those of Shape Blue Ltd or related companies. >>If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must neither >>take any action based >upon >>its contents, nor copy or show it to anyone. Please contact the sender >>if >you >>believe you have received this email in error. Shape Blue Ltd is a >>company incorporated in England & Wales. ShapeBlue Services India LLP >>is operated under license from Shape Blue Ltd. ShapeBlue is a registered >trademark. > > > >This email and any attachments to it may be confidential and are intended >solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. Any views or >opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily >represent those of Shape Blue Ltd or related companies. If you are not the >intended recipient of this email, you must neither take any action based upon >its contents, nor copy or show it to anyone. Please contact the sender if you >believe you have received this email in error. Shape Blue Ltd is a company >incorporated in England & Wales. ShapeBlue Services India LLP is operated >under license from Shape Blue Ltd. ShapeBlue is a registered trademark.