RE: Reservation Error:

2010-03-23 Thread Kumar, Amit H.
Hi All, Looking closely it looks like there is an issue when, the esx.pm picks all the parameters to initiate a poweroff command on the VMguest using the VMware Perl toolkit API Please advise ...if my understanding below is right or wrong? 2010-03-22 16:51:09|15553|2:2|image|esx.pm:capture(64

Re: Reservation Error:

2010-03-23 Thread Ryan Johnson
I believe when you are creating a base image, the vmguest name should be the same as the name of the image you are creating it should be in a format like vmwarewinxp-base7-v1. Note that the vm you are imaging should have this name as well as the vmdk file. Your other problem with the hostname is

RE: Reservation Error:

2010-03-23 Thread Kumar, Amit H.
Hi Ryan, Thank you for your quick response. I just realized the part with giving hostname rather than just the IP for VMhost by looking at the regular expression parsing for hostname. I didn't know that we need to have the same name for Vmguest and the base image. Now that you mentioned it m

Re: Base image capture failure

2010-03-23 Thread Terry McGuire
On 18 Mar 2010, at 0742h, Andy Kurth wrote: > Hi Terry, > Sorry for the delay. This information is helpful. You're right, the root > cause seems to be that sysprep_cmdlines.cmd isn't running. > > I have seen the issue where you can't enter a password before. This only > seems to happen for

Reservations and Reloading

2010-03-23 Thread Ryan Johnson
When testing the service I noticed something curious. If I make a reservation, the vm files are copied and powered on. When I end the reservation, the copied vm files are destroyed and copied again and the vm is powered on again - the vm is reloaded. What is strange to me is that when I create a