minor bug fix

2010-07-08 Thread My LinuxHAList
Hi Devs,

I'm somewhat certain that this is a bug and not entirely sure if this
has been reported:
/usr/local/vcl/lib/VCL/Module/Provisioning/esx.pm
Line 1019:if ($l =~ /([a-zA-Z1-9]*):\s*([-_.a-zA-Z1-9]*)/) {
should read  if ($l =~ /([a-zA-Z0-9]*):\s*([-_.a-zA-Z0-9]*)/) {

Thanks


Documentation Improvements on Create a Linux Base Image

2010-06-10 Thread My LinuxHAList
Hi,

If I have this understood right, I have a minor suggestion on the
improvements on the page.
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/VCL/Create+a+Linux+Base+Image

The instructions need to be changed a bit for it to work for RedHat/CentOS 5.

It has to do with the default sshd startup/stop script (as supplied by
RedHat/CentOS 5) which does a killproc $SSHD on stop which will kill
both internal and external daemons (even when invoked on the external
sshd script). It's needed since the external sshd will be shutdown at
some VCL processes and the internal sshd stilll needs to listen.

For testing purposes, one can change it to kill on the PID file. To be
ultra-safe, one can check the process name with the PID before
killing.

Thanks


Re: showTimeTable function

2010-06-09 Thread My LinuxHAList
 the 
 privileges.

 select resourcegroup.name,resourcetype.name,type,privnode.name  from 
 resourcegroup,resourcetype,resourcepriv,privnode where 
 resourcegroupid=resourcegroup.id and resourcetypeid=resourcetype.id and 
 privnodeid=privnode.id;

 Mike Waldron
 Systems Specialist
 ITS Research Computing
 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
 CB #3420, ITS Manning, Rm 2509
 919-962-9778


 -Original Message-
 From: My LinuxHAList [mailto:mylinuxhal...@gmail.com]
 Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 4:52 PM
 To: vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org
 Subject: Re: showTimeTable function

 Hi Mike, List,

 On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Waldron, Michael H
 mwald...@email.unc.edu wrote:
 Your privilege screen attachments didn't make it to the list.

 Ooops. Re-attached it. I made sure that things that can be added to
 the Resources are added and marked available, etc.
 Probably, the current setup is not clean; but it's the shot gun
 approach to ensure that all things are available.

 Make sure for the Resources section on the Privileges screen that the 
 computer groups and the image groups are listed as available.

 You shouldn't have to fill in the currentimageid, preferredimageid, 
 nextimageid, imagerevisionid fields in the computer table.

 OK.

 If you ever use bare-metal or full blade images in the future, as 
 opposed to vmware images, you'll want to separate your computer and image 
 group assignments. The reason being that bare-metal installs use a 
 different provisioning engine (xCAT), bare-metal images can't be provisioned 
 on vmware computers and vmware images can't be provisioned on bare-metal 
 servers. In your case it doesn't matter since you only have vmware image.
 For example:
 allComputers,newimages,allImages  used for bare-metal
 allVMComputers, newvmimages, allVMImages  used for vmware

 Thanks again for the explanation. All these labels are now more
 meaningful to me now.

 I see. So, in a cleanly-separated. My vm-spawn-1 belongs to only
 newvmimages, allVMImages, allVMComputers.
 In an attempt to make this work, I just make a lot of things belonging
 to a whole lot of other things.

 I'm still at this point getting Selection not currently available.

 How should I troubleshoot this further ?



 Mike Waldron
 Systems Specialist
 ITS Research Computing
 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
 CB #3420, ITS Manning, Rm 2509
 919-962-9778


 -Original Message-
 From: My LinuxHAList [mailto:mylinuxhal...@gmail.com]
 Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 3:01 PM
 To: vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org
 Subject: Re: showTimeTable function

 I don't know how the View Time Table plays into things, I've never looked 
 at that before, mine is currently blank.
 Unless I'm not understanding the setup, you have to have as many computers 
 defined as you want to have instances of your image running. For each 
 computer you define you assign a unique mac address. To make a reservation 
 for the image, there has to be an available computer for the reservation to 
 run on. If you want to have 10 concurrent reservations, you have to have 10 
 computers available.

 The image also must be assigned to an image group, and that image group has 
 to be mapped to a computer group which contains the computers the image can 
 run on. There is good explanation of this at the Documentation link on the 
 VCL home page.

 Thanks. I've been trying to follow the documentation on the Images
 and Privileges documentation.
 The documentation did not mention about creation of each machine like
 you described; now I understand that it's needed.

 I added vm-spawn-1; with Mac address, etc.

 Do you mean the following grouping, etc. I've got (I'm logged in as
 user 'admin'):
 1) No Apps (Linux) - image.id=10 belongs to {allImages,allVMImages}
 2) allImages belongs to {allComputers,newimages,newvmimages}
 3) allVMImages belongs to {allComputers,newimages,newvmimages}
 4) vmnode2.local (ESXi host) and vm-spawn-1 belong to
 {allComputers,newimages,newvmimages}
 5) Attached are my Privileges screens.

 Do I need to set currentimageid, preferredimageid or nextimageid,
 imagerevisionid for vm-spawn-1 ?

 I still can't get reservation on No Apps (Linux), when I select
 Now it still says Selection currently not available.

 Thanks




 mysql select * from computer;
 ++-+-++++--+-+-+--++---+-+---+---+--+---+---+++---+-+---+---+--+--++--++--+-+--+--+
 | id | stateid | ownerid | platformid | scheduleid | currentimageid |
 preferredimageid | nextimageid | imagerevisionid | RAM  | procnumber |
 procspeed | network | hostname      | IPaddress     | privateIPaddress
 | eth0macaddress    | eth1macaddress    | type

Re: showTimeTable function

2010-06-09 Thread My LinuxHAList
 Mike has already mentioned some of these items, but I'll list them all out
 together to make it easier to check.

 - -put No Apps(Linux) in the allVMimages group

It belong to allVMImages (and nothing else)

 - -create a new computer group named All VMs
 - -map the allVMimages image group to the All VMs computer group

allVMImags maps to AllVMs and nothing else.

 - -put vm-spawn-1 and any other VMs you've created in the All VMs computer
 group

vm-spawn-1 and vm-base10-v1 are grouped to AllVMs
vmnode2.local (my ESXi host) is mapped to allComputers (and nothing else).

 - -add All VMs to the VCL node on the privilege tree with the available
 attribute

Completed this one.

 - -map the AllManagementNodes management node group to the All VMs computer
 group

allManagementNodes is mapped to AllVMs and nothing else.

 - -make sure the computer specs for vm-spawn-1 are greater than or equal to 
 the
 image specs for No Apps(Linux)

They are equal.

 - -make sure vm-spawn-1 is in the available state

Yes.

 - -make sure vm-spawn-1 is assigned to ESXi host in the Virtual Hosts part of
 the site

Yes.

 - -make sure vcld is running on your management node and is regularly checking
 in to the database
Yes.

 - -make sure your management node is in the AllManagementNodes group

Yes.

 - -make sure the schedule associated with vm-spawn-1 is available during the
 time you've selected for your reservation (if you haven't messed with your
 schedules, this shouldn't be an issue)

Did not mess with this. I think it's 24x7.

And now when I select No Apps (Linux) it says Estimated Load Time 
5 Minutes.

Thanks Mike, Josh, List.

I see My Reservation eventually failed. It is a progress.

Thanks


 I think I covered everything.  Let us know what you find.

 Josh

 On Wednesday June 09, 2010, Waldron, Michael H wrote:
 Nothing obvious is jumping out at me here. I'm running out of ideas,
  perhaps someone else can chime in.

 The only other thing I can think of is to verify that your virtual machines
  are in the 'available' state.

 Mike Waldron
 Systems Specialist
 ITS Research Computing
 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
 CB #3420, ITS Manning, Rm 2509
 919-962-9778


 -Original Message-
 From: My LinuxHAList [mailto:mylinuxhal...@gmail.com]
 Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 9:41 AM
 To: vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org
 Subject: Re: showTimeTable function

 Thanks again Mike for helping with this.

 mysql select resourcegroup.name,resourcetype.name,type,privnode.name
 from resourcegroup,resourcetype,resourcepriv,privnode where
 resourcegroupid=resourcegroup.id and resourcetypeid=resourcetype.id
 and privnodeid=privnode.id;;
 +++-+---+

 | name               | name           | type        | name      |

 +++-+---+

 | allComputers       | computer       | available   | VCL       |
 | allComputers       | computer       | administer  | VCL       |
 | allComputers       | computer       | manageGroup | VCL       |
 | allComputers       | computer       | available   | admin     |
 | allComputers       | computer       | administer  | admin     |
 | allComputers       | computer       | manageGroup | admin     |
 | allComputers       | computer       | available   | newimages |
 | allComputers       | computer       | administer  | newimages |
 | allComputers       | computer       | manageGroup | newimages |
 | newimages          | computer       | available   | VCL       |
 | newimages          | computer       | administer  | VCL       |
 | newimages          | computer       | manageGroup | VCL       |
 | newimages          | computer       | available   | admin     |
 | newimages          | computer       | administer  | admin     |
 | newimages          | computer       | manageGroup | admin     |
 | newimages          | computer       | available   | newimages |
 | newimages          | computer       | administer  | newimages |
 | newimages          | computer       | manageGroup | newimages |
 | newvmimages        | computer       | available   | VCL       |
 | newvmimages        | computer       | administer  | VCL       |
 | newvmimages        | computer       | manageGroup | VCL       |
 | newvmimages        | computer       | available   | admin     |
 | newvmimages        | computer       | administer  | admin     |
 | newvmimages        | computer       | manageGroup | admin     |
 | newvmimages        | computer       | available   | newimages |
 | newvmimages        | computer       | administer  | newimages |
 | newvmimages        | computer       | manageGroup | newimages |
 | allImages          | image          | available   | VCL       |
 | allImages          | image          | administer  | VCL       |
 | allImages          | image          | manageGroup | VCL       |
 | allImages          | image          | available   | admin     |
 | allImages          | image

Re: showTimeTable function

2010-06-08 Thread My LinuxHAList
Hi Mike, List,

Apparently, my understanding is still a bit off.

Since I've captured the image successfully No Apps (Linux), name:
vmwarelinux-base10-v1, with the appropriate files copied over to
$DATASTORE/golden/vmwarelinux-base10-v1/

I'm thinking that I'll be able to spawn as many instance of the No
Apps (Linux) as I configure the ESXi to handle.
That was the idea behind capturing an image right ?  How would I be
able to achieve that ?

I create another computer called vm-tospawn, populate the mac
addresses field and assign it to my only ESXi host.
Nothing shows up on the View Time Table. What are the fields that
say vm-tospawn is associated with the No Apps (Linux) image I
captured ? If I populate the mac address fields, if I spawn 2 version
of it, wouldn't I cause conflicts on the Mac address ?

I still need some guidance on how to go from successful image capture
to launch multiple of them on ESXi host.

What am I missing ?

Thanks


On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Waldron, Michael H
mwald...@email.unc.edu wrote:
 The ESXi host won't directly run your image, you have to define virtual 
 machines and assign them to the ESXi host, which will then spin these up to 
 run the image.

 Basic steps:
 - Click Manage Computers, Edit Computer Information, Submit
 - Add
 - Fill in hostname, IP address, RAM, Proc Speed, Network Speed, select 
 'virtual machine' under Type, VMWare provisioning engine, and appropriate 
 computer group.
 - Assign mac addresses for public and private network interfaces of the 
 virtual machine.
 - Update the computer table in the database with this info for the virtual 
 machine and assign the values to the fields eth0macaddress, eth1macaddress.
 - Click Virtual Hosts
 - Select your ESXi host
 - Click Configure Host
 - Select the virtual machine(s) in the Unassigned VMs column and click Add.

 Hopefully I didn't leave out any steps.


 Mike Waldron
 Systems Specialist
 ITS Research Computing
 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
 CB #3420, ITS Manning, Rm 2509
 919-962-9778


 -Original Message-
 From: My LinuxHAList [mailto:mylinuxhal...@gmail.com]
 Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 11:54 PM
 To: vcl-u...@incubator.apache.org; vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org
 Cc: My LinuxHAList
 Subject: showTimeTable function

 Hi,

 I have a ESXi host (computer.id=1); I have an image [ No Apps(Linux) ]
 which was successfully captured (I think).
 I tried to make Reservation using the now button, it says Selection
 currently not available; then I clicked the View Time Table, no
 computers show up.

 The ESXi host is in vmhostinuse state (which is state.id=20) -- which
 ESXi host needs to be in.

 I'm assuming that my ESXi host is supposed to show up on I hit the
 View Time Table if I intend it to be able to run No Apps (Linux).
 Is this true ?

 With ESXi host in the state of vmhostinuse, I don't think it will ever
 show up, because the state.id=20.
 Here are the code snippets:
                        if($computer_platformids[$id] != $platformid ||
                           ($computerData[$id][stateid] != 2 
                                $computerData[$id][stateid] != 3 
                                $computerData[$id][stateid] != 6 
                                $computerData[$id][stateid] != 8) ||
                           $computerData[$id][ram] 
 $imageData[$imageid][minram] ||
                           $computerData[$id][procnumber] 
 $imageData[$imageid][minprocnumber] ||
                           $computerData[$id][procspeed] 
 $imageData[$imageid][minprocspeed] ||
                           $computerData[$id][network] 
 $imageData[$imageid][minnetwork] ||
                           ! in_array($id, $mappedcomputers)) {
                                continue;
                        }

 I could have completely misunderstood what View Time Table should show.
 I'm expecting the time tables to show ESXi host(s) that are able to
 run No Apps (Linux).

 If I'm wrong, what is View Time Table designed to show ?

 Thanks



Re: showTimeTable function

2010-06-08 Thread My LinuxHAList
 of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
 CB #3420, ITS Manning, Rm 2509
 919-962-9778


 -Original Message-
 From: My LinuxHAList [mailto:mylinuxhal...@gmail.com]
 Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 12:15 PM
 To: vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org
 Subject: Re: showTimeTable function

 Hi Mike, List,

 Apparently, my understanding is still a bit off.

 Since I've captured the image successfully No Apps (Linux), name:
 vmwarelinux-base10-v1, with the appropriate files copied over to
 $DATASTORE/golden/vmwarelinux-base10-v1/

 I'm thinking that I'll be able to spawn as many instance of the No
 Apps (Linux) as I configure the ESXi to handle.
 That was the idea behind capturing an image right ?  How would I be
 able to achieve that ?

 I create another computer called vm-tospawn, populate the mac
 addresses field and assign it to my only ESXi host.
 Nothing shows up on the View Time Table. What are the fields that
 say vm-tospawn is associated with the No Apps (Linux) image I
 captured ? If I populate the mac address fields, if I spawn 2 version
 of it, wouldn't I cause conflicts on the Mac address ?

 I still need some guidance on how to go from successful image capture
 to launch multiple of them on ESXi host.

 What am I missing ?

 Thanks


 On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Waldron, Michael H
 mwald...@email.unc.edu wrote:
 The ESXi host won't directly run your image, you have to define virtual 
 machines and assign them to the ESXi host, which will then spin these up to 
 run the image.

 Basic steps:
 - Click Manage Computers, Edit Computer Information, Submit
 - Add
 - Fill in hostname, IP address, RAM, Proc Speed, Network Speed, select 
 'virtual machine' under Type, VMWare provisioning engine, and appropriate 
 computer group.
 - Assign mac addresses for public and private network interfaces of the 
 virtual machine.
 - Update the computer table in the database with this info for the virtual 
 machine and assign the values to the fields eth0macaddress, eth1macaddress.
 - Click Virtual Hosts
 - Select your ESXi host
 - Click Configure Host
 - Select the virtual machine(s) in the Unassigned VMs column and click Add.

 Hopefully I didn't leave out any steps.


 Mike Waldron
 Systems Specialist
 ITS Research Computing
 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
 CB #3420, ITS Manning, Rm 2509
 919-962-9778


 -Original Message-
 From: My LinuxHAList [mailto:mylinuxhal...@gmail.com]
 Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 11:54 PM
 To: vcl-u...@incubator.apache.org; vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org
 Cc: My LinuxHAList
 Subject: showTimeTable function

 Hi,

 I have a ESXi host (computer.id=1); I have an image [ No Apps(Linux) ]
 which was successfully captured (I think).
 I tried to make Reservation using the now button, it says Selection
 currently not available; then I clicked the View Time Table, no
 computers show up.

 The ESXi host is in vmhostinuse state (which is state.id=20) -- which
 ESXi host needs to be in.

 I'm assuming that my ESXi host is supposed to show up on I hit the
 View Time Table if I intend it to be able to run No Apps (Linux).
 Is this true ?

 With ESXi host in the state of vmhostinuse, I don't think it will ever
 show up, because the state.id=20.
 Here are the code snippets:
                        if($computer_platformids[$id] != $platformid ||
                           ($computerData[$id][stateid] != 2 
                                $computerData[$id][stateid] != 3 
                                $computerData[$id][stateid] != 6 
                                $computerData[$id][stateid] != 8) ||
                           $computerData[$id][ram] 
 $imageData[$imageid][minram] ||
                           $computerData[$id][procnumber] 
 $imageData[$imageid][minprocnumber] ||
                           $computerData[$id][procspeed] 
 $imageData[$imageid][minprocspeed] ||
                           $computerData[$id][network] 
 $imageData[$imageid][minnetwork] ||
                           ! in_array($id, $mappedcomputers)) {
                                continue;
                        }

 I could have completely misunderstood what View Time Table should show.
 I'm expecting the time tables to show ESXi host(s) that are able to
 run No Apps (Linux).

 If I'm wrong, what is View Time Table designed to show ?

 Thanks




Re: showTimeTable function

2010-06-08 Thread My LinuxHAList
Hi Mike, List,

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Waldron, Michael H
mwald...@email.unc.edu wrote:
 Your privilege screen attachments didn't make it to the list.

Ooops. Re-attached it. I made sure that things that can be added to
the Resources are added and marked available, etc.
Probably, the current setup is not clean; but it's the shot gun
approach to ensure that all things are available.

 Make sure for the Resources section on the Privileges screen that the 
 computer groups and the image groups are listed as available.

 You shouldn't have to fill in the currentimageid, preferredimageid, 
 nextimageid, imagerevisionid fields in the computer table.

OK.

 If you ever use bare-metal or full blade images in the future, as opposed 
 to vmware images, you'll want to separate your computer and image group 
 assignments. The reason being that bare-metal installs use a different 
 provisioning engine (xCAT), bare-metal images can't be provisioned on vmware 
 computers and vmware images can't be provisioned on bare-metal servers. In 
 your case it doesn't matter since you only have vmware image.
 For example:
 allComputers,newimages,allImages  used for bare-metal
 allVMComputers, newvmimages, allVMImages  used for vmware

Thanks again for the explanation. All these labels are now more
meaningful to me now.

I see. So, in a cleanly-separated. My vm-spawn-1 belongs to only
newvmimages, allVMImages, allVMComputers.
In an attempt to make this work, I just make a lot of things belonging
to a whole lot of other things.

I'm still at this point getting Selection not currently available.

How should I troubleshoot this further ?



 Mike Waldron
 Systems Specialist
 ITS Research Computing
 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
 CB #3420, ITS Manning, Rm 2509
 919-962-9778


 -Original Message-
 From: My LinuxHAList [mailto:mylinuxhal...@gmail.com]
 Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 3:01 PM
 To: vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org
 Subject: Re: showTimeTable function

 I don't know how the View Time Table plays into things, I've never looked at 
 that before, mine is currently blank.
 Unless I'm not understanding the setup, you have to have as many computers 
 defined as you want to have instances of your image running. For each 
 computer you define you assign a unique mac address. To make a reservation 
 for the image, there has to be an available computer for the reservation to 
 run on. If you want to have 10 concurrent reservations, you have to have 10 
 computers available.

 The image also must be assigned to an image group, and that image group has 
 to be mapped to a computer group which contains the computers the image can 
 run on. There is good explanation of this at the Documentation link on the 
 VCL home page.

 Thanks. I've been trying to follow the documentation on the Images
 and Privileges documentation.
 The documentation did not mention about creation of each machine like
 you described; now I understand that it's needed.

 I added vm-spawn-1; with Mac address, etc.

 Do you mean the following grouping, etc. I've got (I'm logged in as
 user 'admin'):
 1) No Apps (Linux) - image.id=10 belongs to {allImages,allVMImages}
 2) allImages belongs to {allComputers,newimages,newvmimages}
 3) allVMImages belongs to {allComputers,newimages,newvmimages}
 4) vmnode2.local (ESXi host) and vm-spawn-1 belong to
 {allComputers,newimages,newvmimages}
 5) Attached are my Privileges screens.

 Do I need to set currentimageid, preferredimageid or nextimageid,
 imagerevisionid for vm-spawn-1 ?

 I still can't get reservation on No Apps (Linux), when I select
 Now it still says Selection currently not available.

 Thanks




 mysql select * from computer;
 ++-+-++++--+-+-+--++---+-+---+---+--+---+---+++---+-+---+---+--+--++--++--+-+--+--+
 | id | stateid | ownerid | platformid | scheduleid | currentimageid |
 preferredimageid | nextimageid | imagerevisionid | RAM  | procnumber |
 procspeed | network | hostname      | IPaddress     | privateIPaddress
 | eth0macaddress    | eth1macaddress    | type           |
 provisioningid | drivetype | deleted | notes | lastcheck | location |
 dsa  | dsapub | rsa  | rsapub | host | hostpub | vmhostid | vmtypeid |
 ++-+-++++--+-+-+--++---+-+---+---+--+---+---+++---+-+---+---+--+--++--++--+-+--+--+
 |  1 |      20 |       1 |          1

showTimeTable function

2010-06-07 Thread My LinuxHAList
Hi,

I have a ESXi host (computer.id=1); I have an image [ No Apps(Linux) ]
which was successfully captured (I think).
I tried to make Reservation using the now button, it says Selection
currently not available; then I clicked the View Time Table, no
computers show up.

The ESXi host is in vmhostinuse state (which is state.id=20) -- which
ESXi host needs to be in.

I'm assuming that my ESXi host is supposed to show up on I hit the
View Time Table if I intend it to be able to run No Apps (Linux).
Is this true ?

With ESXi host in the state of vmhostinuse, I don't think it will ever
show up, because the state.id=20.
Here are the code snippets:
if($computer_platformids[$id] != $platformid ||
   ($computerData[$id][stateid] != 2 
$computerData[$id][stateid] != 3 
$computerData[$id][stateid] != 6 
$computerData[$id][stateid] != 8) ||
   $computerData[$id][ram] 
$imageData[$imageid][minram] ||
   $computerData[$id][procnumber] 
$imageData[$imageid][minprocnumber] ||
   $computerData[$id][procspeed] 
$imageData[$imageid][minprocspeed] ||
   $computerData[$id][network] 
$imageData[$imageid][minnetwork] ||
   ! in_array($id, $mappedcomputers)) {
continue;
}

I could have completely misunderstood what View Time Table should show.
I'm expecting the time tables to show ESXi host(s) that are able to
run No Apps (Linux).

If I'm wrong, what is View Time Table designed to show ?

Thanks


Re: ESXi host, local disk

2010-06-01 Thread My LinuxHAList
Ryan, thanks for the input and helpful discussion. I had a similar
discussion with another helpful user on the topic.

I think the management node was going to ssh into the vm machine to
set ethernet to dhcpd, configure the sshd, shut it down, de-register
it from vmware, etc.

My original intention is that if I've properly setup the image; set
ethernet to dhcpd, etc., then this would obviate the needs for the
management node to login (and thus safely ignore the warnings).

By having done what the management node going to do and put it in the
image, will I be able to skip the step of having the management node
to login to the image ?

The process did copy over:
./golden/vmwarelinux-base10-v1/vmwarelinux-base10-v1.vmx
./golden/vmwarelinux-base10-v1/vmwarelinux-base10-v1.vmdk
./golden/vmwarelinux-base10-v1/vmwarelinux-base10-v1-flat.vmdk

Thanks

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Ryan Johnson rjoh...@gwmail.gwu.edu wrote:
 I don't think you are quite there yet.  VCL needs to be able to ssh into the
 image to perform some configuration.  I am pretty sure the VM you are trying
 to capture an image of needs to be registered with the host and powered on.
  From the looks of the error below, the VM may not have been registered with
 the host.  Or perhaps the Image you are trying to capture is a registered
 VM, but its name does not match the virtual machine VCL is looking for.

 2010-06-01 13:52:28|13095|1:10|image|esx.pm:capture(661)|Powered off:
 Virtual Machine vmwarelinux-base10-v1 not found.

 I real issue again has to do with this error where VCL is unable to SSH into
 the VM.

 |13095|1:10|image|  WARNING 
 |13095|1:10|image| 2010-06-01
 13:52:07|13095|1:10|image|utils.pm:run_ssh_command(6252)|attempt 1/3:
 failed to execute SSH command on vmwarelinux-base10-v1: echo
 vmwarelinux-base10-v1  /root/currentimage.txt, exit status: 255, SSH
 exits with the exit status of the remote command or with 255 if an
 error occurred, output:
 |13095|1:10|image| ssh output (echo vmwar...): ssh:
 vmwarelinux-base10-v1: Name or service not known
 |13095|1:10|image| ( 0) utils.pm, notify (line: 737)
 |13095|1:10|image| (-1) utils.pm, run_ssh_command (line: 6252)
 |13095|1:10|image| (-2) esx.pm, capture (line: 650)
 |13095|1:10|image| (-3) image.pm, process (line: 162)
 |13095|1:10|image| (-4) vcld, make_new_child (line: 596)
 |13095|1:10|image| (-5) vcld, main (line: 341)

 On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 3:55 PM, My LinuxHAList mylinuxhal...@gmail.comwrote:

 I went ahead to switch it to NFS (helpful users have suggested it to
 me as work-arounds).
 I hope that I'm done with my initial image (given the logs entries, I
 think I'm done with the initial image creation - please point out if
 I'm wrong).

 This message might be more appropriate to vcl-user.

 ===
 OUTPUT for vcld run on 2010-06-01 13:50:35
 ===
 2010-06-01 13:50:35|13091|vcld:main(116)|vcld environment variable set
 to 1 for this process
 2010-06-01 13:50:35|13091|utils.pm:rename_vcld_process(7901)|renamed
 process to 'vcld vcld'
 2010-06-01 13:50:35|13091|utils.pm:
 get_management_node_info(6815)|management
 node info retrieved from database for managementnode
 2010-06-01 13:50:35|13091|vcld:main(127)|retrieved management node
 information from database
 2010-06-01 13:50:35|13091|vcld:main(140)|management_node_id
 environment variable set: 1
 2010-06-01 13:50:35|13091|vcld:main(148)|management node checkin
 interval is 5 seconds
 2010-06-01 13:50:35|13091|vcld:main(149)|vcld started on
 managementnode.local
 2010-06-01 13:50:40|13091|vcld:main(165)|lastcheckin time updated for
 management node 1: 2010-06-01 13:50:40
 2010-06-01 13:50:45|13091|vcld:main(165)|lastcheckin time updated for
 management node 1: 2010-06-01 13:50:45
 2010-06-01 13:50:50|13091|vcld:main(165)|lastcheckin time updated for
 management node 1: 2010-06-01 13:50:50
 2010-06-01 13:50:55|13091|vcld:main(165)|lastcheckin time updated for
 management node 1: 2010-06-01 13:50:55
 2010-06-01 13:51:00|13091|vcld:main(165)|lastcheckin time updated for
 management node 1: 2010-06-01 13:51:00
 2010-06-01 13:51:05|13091|vcld:main(165)|lastcheckin time updated for
 management node 1: 2010-06-01 13:51:05
 2010-06-01 13:51:10|13091|vcld:main(165)|lastcheckin time updated for
 management node 1: 2010-06-01 13:51:10
 2010-06-01 13:51:15|13091|vcld:main(165)|lastcheckin time updated for
 management node 1: 2010-06-01 13:51:15
 2010-06-01 13:51:20|13091|vcld:main(165)|lastcheckin time updated for
 management node 1: 2010-06-01 13:51:20
 2010-06-01 13:51:25|13091|vcld:main(165)|lastcheckin time updated for
 management node 1: 2010-06-01 13:51:25
 2010-06-01 13:51:30|13091|vcld:main(165)|lastcheckin time updated for
 management node 1: 2010-06-01 13:51:30
 2010-06-01 13:51:35|13091|vcld:main(165)|lastcheckin time updated for
 management node 1: 2010-06-01 13:51:35
 2010-06-01 13:51:40|13091|vcld:main(165

VCL-2.1 SQL Constraints

2010-05-31 Thread My LinuxHAList
Hi Devs,

The vmprofileid in vmhost table seems to point to vmprofile.id; I
could be wrong.
There does not seem to be a foreign key constraint there; I could
delete vmprofile.id that is still being referenced.

Thanks


ESXi host, local disk

2010-05-29 Thread My LinuxHAList
Replying to my own thread:

 (2) Any updates from an old issue:
http://www.mail-archive.com/vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org/msg00900.html
   The target is ESXi 3.5 host.

To get familiarity of the software, I've been using ESXi 3.5 local
disk storage; so I specify the datastore to be ESXi's IP:/PATH.

Hence, during image capture phase, the ssh commands seem to be going
off to the ESXi host.
The command seems to succeed all the time; however the return code is
mostly 255 and sometimes 0.
It's weird because I'm certain that commands being sent were
successful; I reproduced it manually the weird behavior
( similar to 
http://www.mail-archive.com/vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org/msg00900.html
)

I take that this is an sshd oddity on ESXi host.

I saw entries of localdisk or networkdisk on vmprofile. Not sure
how they are used.

Is the setup of ESXi with local disk considered to be a supported option ?
If so, how would I get around the sshd oddity for the ESXi's
IP:/DATASTOREPATH issues during image capture ? Or I should do things
differently for localdisk.

I'll switch to NFS so that I can move forward.

I wish to get some understanding on potentially what I did wrong or
what I did was simply an unsupported setup.

Thanks again.


possibly missing foreign key constraint and revisit old issues

2010-05-28 Thread My LinuxHAList
Couple things:
(1) The vmprofileid in vmhost table seems to point to vmprofile.id; I
could be wrong.
 There does not seem to be a foreign key constraint there; I could
 delete vmprofile.id that is still being referenced.

(2) Any updates from an old issue:
 http://www.mail-archive.com/vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org/msg00900.html
 The target is ESXi 3.5 host.

Thanks