Hi, I'm trying to create a pipeline that involves cloning a VM in vSphere (5.5) and have a couple of issues - not sure if its what I'm doing or a bug... My vSphere environment is vCenter Appliance 5.5 + one esxi 5.5 host with local datastore and no resource pools defined. Jenkins 2.53, vSphere Plugin 2.15
1 - Using the code below, my job runs and does successfully create the cloned VM's in vSphere, but the build step fails (This is inside a parallel - I am cloning 2 vm's, only one shown here) vSphere buildStep: [$class: 'Clone', clone: "${rhelVer}_Dev_Template", cluster: "Lab", datastore: "esx1-local-v1", linkedClone: false, powerOn: false, resourcePool: 'Resources', sourceName: "${host}"], serverName: 'vcenter_server' [Pipeline] { (VMWare Templating) [Pipeline] parallel [Pipeline] [Cloning buildbot4.lab.example.org] { (Branch: Cloning buildbot4.lab.example.org) [Pipeline] [Cloning buildbot4.lab.example.org] node [Cloning buildbot4.lab.example.org] Running on master in /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/RHEL-SOE_development-HKF2SOLEQLI2P6HZSQBCKB3ZUWDAHUYCN2CU7VVYPM4WIKG732JQ [Pipeline] [Cloning buildbot4.lab.example.org] vSphere [Cloning buildbot4.lab.example.org] [vSphere] [Cloning buildbot4.lab.example.org] [vSphere] Performing vSphere build step: "Clone VM from VM or template" [Cloning buildbot4.lab.example.org] [vSphere] Attempting to use server configuration: "vcenter_server" [Cloning buildbot4.lab.example.org] [vSphere] Creating a deep clone of "buildbot4.lab.example.org" to "RHEL6_Server_Dev_Template" [Cloning buildbot4.lab.example.org] [vSphere] Clone of VM "buildbot4.lab.example.org" will be based on current snapshot "VirtualMachineSnapshot:snapshot-210 @ https://vcenter.lab.example.org/sdk". [Cloning buildbot4.lab.example.org] [vSphere] Started cloning of VM "buildbot4.lab.example.org". Please wait ... [Cloning buildbot4.lab.example.org] [vSphere] Successfully cloned VM "buildbot4.lab.example.org" to create "RHEL6_Server_Dev_Template". [Cloning buildbot4.lab.example.org] [vSphere] "RHEL6_Server_Dev_Template" successfully cloned! [Pipeline] [Cloning buildbot4.lab.example.org] } [Pipeline] [Cloning buildbot4.lab.example.org] // node [Pipeline] [Cloning buildbot4.lab.example.org] } [Cloning buildbot4.lab.example.org] Failed in branch Cloning buildbot4.lab.example.org In vCenter the cloned VM is indeed there and can be powered on - so the clone did work... why would the branch be failing? 2 - I cannot get the pipeline syntax generator to generate anything other than an NPE: (Attached screen capture - what is the serverName expected in the resourcePool field? I've tried all sorts with the same result) Stack trace java.lang.NullPointerException at org.jenkinsci.plugins.vsphere.builders.Clone$CloneDescriptor.doTestData(Clone.java:254) Caused: java.lang.RuntimeException at org.jenkinsci.plugins.vsphere.builders.Clone$CloneDescriptor.doTestData(Clone.java:261) at java.lang.invoke.MethodHandle.invokeWithArguments(MethodHandle.java:627) at org.kohsuke.stapler.Function$MethodFunction.invoke(Function.java:343) at org.kohsuke.stapler.Function.bindAndInvoke(Function.java:184) at org.kohsuke.stapler.Function.bindAndInvokeAndServeResponse(Function.java:117) at org.kohsuke.stapler.MetaClass$1.doDispatch(MetaClass.java:129) at org.kohsuke.stapler.NameBasedDispatcher.dispatch(NameBasedDispatcher.java:58) at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.tryInvoke(Stapler.java:715) Caused: javax.servlet.ServletException at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.tryInvoke(Stapler.java:765) at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.invoke(Stapler.java:845) at org.kohsuke.stapler.MetaClass$5.doDispatch(MetaClass.java:248) at org.kohsuke.stapler.NameBasedDispatcher.dispatch(NameBasedDispatcher.java:58) at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.tryInvoke(Stapler.java:715) at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.invoke(Stapler.java:845) at org.kohsuke.stapler.MetaClass$10.dispatch(MetaClass.java:374) at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.tryInvoke(Stapler.java:715) at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.invoke(Stapler.java:845) at org.kohsuke.stapler.MetaClass$5.doDispatch(MetaClass.java:248) at org.kohsuke.stapler.NameBasedDispatcher.dispatch(NameBasedDispatcher.java:58) at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.tryInvoke(Stapler.java:715) at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.invoke(Stapler.java:845) at org.kohsuke.stapler.MetaClass$5.doDispatch(MetaClass.java:248) at org.kohsuke.stapler.NameBasedDispatcher.dispatch(NameBasedDispatcher.java:58) at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.tryInvoke(Stapler.java:715) at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.invoke(Stapler.java:845) at org.kohsuke.stapler.MetaClass$5.doDispatch(MetaClass.java:248) at org.kohsuke.stapler.NameBasedDispatcher.dispatch(NameBasedDispatcher.java:58) at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.tryInvoke(Stapler.java:715) at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.invoke(Stapler.java:845) at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.invoke(Stapler.java:649) at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.service(Stapler.java:238) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:790) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:812) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1669) at hudson.util.PluginServletFilter$1.doFilter(PluginServletFilter.java:135) at org.jenkinsci.plugins.ssegateway.Endpoint$SSEListenChannelFilter.doFilter(Endpoint.java:225) at hudson.util.PluginServletFilter$1.doFilter(PluginServletFilter.java:132) at io.jenkins.blueocean.ResourceCacheControl.doFilter(ResourceCacheControl.java:134) at hudson.util.PluginServletFilter$1.doFilter(PluginServletFilter.java:132) at jenkins.metrics.impl.MetricsFilter.doFilter(MetricsFilter.java:125) at hudson.util.PluginServletFilter$1.doFilter(PluginServletFilter.java:132) at org.jenkinsci.plugins.modernstatus.ModernStatusFilter.doFilter(ModernStatusFilter.java:52) at hudson.util.PluginServletFilter$1.doFilter(PluginServletFilter.java:132) at hudson.plugins.greenballs.GreenBallFilter.doFilter(GreenBallFilter.java:59) at hudson.util.PluginServletFilter$1.doFilter(PluginServletFilter.java:132) at hudson.util.PluginServletFilter.doFilter(PluginServletFilter.java:126) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1652) at hudson.security.csrf.CrumbFilter.doFilter(CrumbFilter.java:80) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1652) at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:84) at hudson.security.UnwrapSecurityExceptionFilter.doFilter(UnwrapSecurityExceptionFilter.java:51) at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:87) at jenkins.security.ExceptionTranslationFilter.doFilter(ExceptionTranslationFilter.java:117) at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:87) at org.acegisecurity.providers.anonymous.AnonymousProcessingFilter.doFilter(AnonymousProcessingFilter.java:125) at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:87) at org.acegisecurity.ui.rememberme.RememberMeProcessingFilter.doFilter(RememberMeProcessingFilter.java:142) at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:87) at org.acegisecurity.ui.AbstractProcessingFilter.doFilter(AbstractProcessingFilter.java:271) at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:87) at jenkins.security.BasicHeaderProcessor.doFilter(BasicHeaderProcessor.java:93) at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:87) at org.acegisecurity.context.HttpSessionContextIntegrationFilter.doFilter(HttpSessionContextIntegrationFilter.java:249) at hudson.security.HttpSessionContextIntegrationFilter2.doFilter(HttpSessionContextIntegrationFilter2.java:67) at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:87) at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:76) at hudson.security.HudsonFilter.doFilter(HudsonFilter.java:171) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1652) at org.kohsuke.stapler.compression.CompressionFilter.doFilter(CompressionFilter.java:49) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1652) at hudson.util.CharacterEncodingFilter.doFilter(CharacterEncodingFilter.java:82) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1652) at org.kohsuke.stapler.DiagnosticThreadNameFilter.doFilter(DiagnosticThreadNameFilter.java:30) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1652) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doHandle(ServletHandler.java:585) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:143) at org.eclipse.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:553) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doHandle(SessionHandler.java:223) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doHandle(ContextHandler.java:1127) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doScope(ServletHandler.java:515) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doScope(SessionHandler.java:185) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doScope(ContextHandler.java:1061) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:141) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:97) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.handle(Server.java:499) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpChannel.handle(HttpChannel.java:311) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpConnection.onFillable(HttpConnection.java:257) at org.eclipse.jetty.io.AbstractConnection$2.run(AbstractConnection.java:544) at winstone.BoundedExecutorService$1.run(BoundedExecutorService.java:77) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) Regards, Geoff -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. 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