++Lucian, i know i mentioned i can help with rolling vmware ovf
templates but did not get to - here are the instructions..
Rohit,
We roll vmware templates continuously via jenkins without the need of
vagrant. Only using virt-install with KVM and ovftool from vmware.
You dont have to use virt-install, if img file is created and vmware
tools are installed, here is what i did to make it vmware ova image.
On high level,
1) create dummy VMX file - via stage_vmx function
2) convert raw/img file to vdml via qemu-img
3) inject content into vmx file
3) use ovftool from vmware to roll ova image
### stage_vmx
function stage_vmx (){
cat << VMXFILE > "$3/$1.vmx"
.encoding = "UTF-8"
config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "9"
pciBridge0.present = "true"
pciBridge4.present = "true"
pciBridge4.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge4.functions = "8"
pciBridge5.present = "true"
pciBridge5.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge5.functions = "8"
pciBridge6.present = "true"
pciBridge6.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge6.functions = "8"
pciBridge7.present = "true"
pciBridge7.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge7.functions = "8"
vmci0.present = "true"
hpet0.present = "true"
nvram = "$1.nvram"
virtualHW.productCompatibility = "hosted"
powerType.powerOff = "soft"
powerType.powerOn = "hard"
powerType.suspend = "hard"
powerType.reset = "soft"
displayName = "$1"
extendedConfigFile = "$1.vmxf"
scsi0.present = "true"
scsi0.sharedBus = "none"
scsi0.virtualDev = "lsilogic"
memsize = "1024"
svga.autodetect = "true"
guestOS = "other-64"
sched.cpu.min = "0"
sched.cpu.units = "mhz"
sched.mem.min = "0"
sched.mem.max = "1024"
scsi0:1.present = "true"
scsi0:1.fileName = "$2"
scsi0:1.deviceType = "scsi-hardDisk"
ide0:0.present = "true"
ide0:0.clientDevice = "true"
ide0:0.deviceType = "cdrom-raw"
ide0:0.allowGuestConnectionControl = "false"
ethernet0.present = "true"
ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"
ethernet0.wakeOnPcktRcv = "false"
ethernet0.networkName = "vSwitch0"
ethernet0.addressType = "static"
ethernet0.address = "06:e6:20:00:00:1a"
machine.id = ""
devices.hotplug = "true"
nicAdapter = "E1000"
keyboard.typematicMindelay = "2000000"
floppy0.present = "FALSE"
scsi0.pciSlotNumber = "16"
ethernet0.pciSlotNumber = "32"
vmci0.id = "1572826102"
vmci0.pciSlotNumber = "33"
tools.syncTime = "FALSE"
uuid.location = "56 4d ab 75 73 c1 95 3d-f4 af c4 ce 75 fb ac 37"
cleanShutdown = "FALSE"
replay.supported = "FALSE"
sched.swap.derivedName = "$1.vswp"
pciBridge0.pciSlotNumber = "17"
pciBridge4.pciSlotNumber = "21"
pciBridge5.pciSlotNumber = "22"
pciBridge6.pciSlotNumber = "23"
pciBridge7.pciSlotNumber = "24"
softPowerOff = "FALSE"
VMXFILE
}
#convert to vmdk
qemu-img convert -f raw -O vmdk $myvmimage $myvmimagevmdk && echo "NOTE:
The VMDK image for $myvmname is $myvmimagevmdk" || echo "ERROR: qemu-img
conversion from img to vmdk failed!"
# create vmx staging file
stage_vmx $VMNAME $VMDK-FILE $DIR-OF-VMDK
#create ova with vmx and vmdk, ovftool binary must be available
OVFTOOL=$(which ovftool)
$OVFTOOL $NAME.vmx $NAME.ova
Regards
ilya
On 3/20/15 2:57 AM, Rohit Yadav wrote:
Hi,
The systemvm template build system does not do all the steps for
producing a valid systemvm template for VMWare, from wiki and past
discussions I know that some extra steps are needed but I'm not sure.
This wikis notes some of those steps:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Creating+System+VM+template+for+Vmware+from+generated+Vbox+template
Can anyone confirm this issue? And, update the wiki if more steps are
needed?
Also can we automate those additional steps using Jenkins? Or perhaps
semi-automate the creation process by writing scripts that do these
extra steps for us?
Regards,
Rohit Yadav
Software Architect, ShapeBlue
M. +91 8826230892 | rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com
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