RE: [VOTE] release VCL 2.3

2012-05-30 Thread Waldron, Michael H
+1 Mike Waldron Systems Specialist ITS Research Computing University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill CB #3420, ITS Manning, Rm 2509 919-962-9778 From: Josh Thompson [josh_thomp...@ncsu.edu] Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 4:36 PM To:

RE: [VOTE] Apache VCL Ready to Graduate

2012-05-10 Thread Waldron, Michael H
+1 Mike Waldron Systems Specialist ITS Research Computing University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill CB #3420, ITS Manning, Rm 2509 919-962-9778 From: Andy Kurth [andy_ku...@ncsu.edu] Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 11:01 AM To: vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org;

RE: Which version of Linux?

2012-05-10 Thread Waldron, Michael H
We are running RHEL 5.8 for both. Mike Waldron Systems Specialist ITS Research Computing University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill CB #3420, ITS Manning, Rm 2509 919-962-9778 From: Sanders, Arbin D [asand...@nccu.edu] Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 3:07 PM To:

RE: [DISCUSS] Graduation

2012-05-04 Thread Waldron, Michael H
I also support graduation. There has been consistent active development work and a good roadmap for future releases. There is an active community of users that have exchanged a lot of good ideas and provided assistance to the community in resolving problems associated with VCL. It's a solid

Latest partimage support scripts

2012-04-13 Thread Waldron, Michael H
I am using fairly old versions of the scripts that support using partimageng with xCAT (partimageng.pm, partimageng postscript, listener.py), which work fine but I thought it would be good to get things more up to date. Looking at the current version of the partimageng postscript at

RE: Latest partimage support scripts

2012-04-13 Thread Waldron, Michael H
are not compressed which could result in overall net savings better than having them compressed. However, you get better transfer times across the wire when they are compressed. Josh On Friday, April 13, 2012 1:01:27 PM Waldron, Michael H wrote: I am using fairly old versions of the scripts

Error with Site Maintenance feature

2011-11-02 Thread Waldron, Michael H
I was trying to test the Site Maintenance feature on my VCL test system, and I get the following error when I click Create Site Maintenance after filling in the fields: AJAX Error: missing ; before statement Line 40 in

Dashboard graph too high

2011-08-19 Thread Waldron, Michael H
On the VCL dashboard page, the section showing the number of active reservations displays the correct number, however the graph depicting the number of reservations over the past 12 hours consistently shows the number as 13 higher than the actual at each data point. In other words, the whole

RE: [VOTE] release VCL 2.2.1 - voting based on RC2

2011-03-31 Thread Waldron, Michael H
+1 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: Josh Thompson [mailto:josh_thomp...@ncsu.edu] Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 12:30 PM To:

RE: [VOTE] release VCL 2.2.1

2011-03-18 Thread Waldron, Michael H
+1, yes 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: Josh Thompson [mailto:josh_thomp...@ncsu.edu] Sent: Friday, March 18, 2011 4:30 PM To:

RE: use of these lists

2011-02-09 Thread Waldron, Michael H
Makes sense to me. 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: Josh Thompson [mailto:josh_thomp...@ncsu.edu] Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 9:52 AM To:

RE: The way to create local user quickly

2011-01-21 Thread Waldron, Michael H
Xianqing, I created a simple shell script to do this. It prompts for userid, first name, last name, and email address. Then it inserts the entry into the USER table and the LOCALAUTH table. The value for 'salt' is just a random 8-char string. The value for 'passhash' is derived from combining

RE: disable Check for Connection function

2011-01-18 Thread Waldron, Michael H
This check can be disabled on the image profile. Go to Manage Images, Edit Image Profiles, click Edit next to the image, click on Advanced Options, then set Check for logged in user to No. Mike Waldron Systems Specialist ITS Research Computing University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill CB

RE: Can't locate VMware/VIRuntime.pm

2011-01-04 Thread Waldron, Michael H
I encountered the same error in a VCL 2.2 test environment that I'm setting up, although I'm using VMware server 1.x since that's what we're using in our VCL 2.1 production environment. I'm trying to duplicate the problems we experienced in our production environment when we attempted to

RE: Can't locate VMware/VIRuntime.pm

2011-01-04 Thread Waldron, Michael H
Computing University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill CB #3420, ITS Manning, Rm 2509 919-962-9778 From: Waldron, Michael H [mwald...@email.unc.edu] Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 8:42 AM To: vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: RE: Can't locate VMware

Upgrading from VCL 2.1 to 2.2

2010-12-07 Thread Waldron, Michael H
I'm getting ready to upgrade our VCL installation from 2.1 to 2.2 after the end of the semester. The procedure looks fairly straightforward, but I thought I'd ping the list to see if anyone else has performed the upgrade, and if so, were any problems encountered? Thanks, Mike Mike Waldron

RE: Newly created image reload failing on sandbox

2010-07-15 Thread Waldron, Michael H
Kiran, A message like this indicates that the virtual machine was unable to start due to some error condition. You need to logon to your VMWare host server vmhost1, and start the vmware console so you can see the message of what input it's asking for. This will give you a clue as to what is

RE: showTimeTable function

2010-06-09 Thread Waldron, Michael H
| newimages | | allManagementNodes | managementnode | manageGroup | newimages | +++-+---+ 63 rows in set (0.00 sec) On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Waldron, Michael H mwald...@email.unc.edu wrote: I think the list is scrubbing attachments

RE: showTimeTable function

2010-06-08 Thread Waldron, Michael H
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,

RE: showTimeTable function

2010-06-08 Thread Waldron, Michael H
, 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

RE: windows 64 bit support

2010-05-11 Thread Waldron, Michael H
I believe at the time, I chose the Windows_Server_2003 module for 64-bit XP because it seemed to be the closest match, and we aren't running any Windows Server 2003 here, so I knew it would be safe to place 64-bit drivers in there. And I wasn't smart enough to write my own module :) I haven't

RE: Change image timeout

2010-05-10 Thread Waldron, Michael H
. Desktop Administrator Marist College PH: 845-575-3347 From: Waldron, Michael H mwald...@email.unc.edu To: 'vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org' vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org Date: 05/10/2010 02:50 PM Subject: RE: Change image timeout Roger, By image uploads do you mean capturing a new image? From

RE: Change image timeout

2010-05-10 Thread Waldron, Michael H
@incubator.apache.org Subject: RE: Change image timeout yup Roger Herling Sr. Desktop Administrator Marist College PH: 845-575-3347 From: Waldron, Michael H mwald...@email.unc.edu To: 'vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org' vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org Date: 05/10/2010 04:17 PM Subject: RE: Change image timeout So you

RE: rdp question

2010-05-04 Thread Waldron, Michael H
Users can go to User Preferences, then click on RDP File Preferences. 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: Roger Herling [mailto:roger.herl...@marist.edu]

RE: windows 64 bit support

2010-05-04 Thread Waldron, Michael H
I think official support will come in next release, however I was able to make it work. There's probably a less kludgey way of doing it, but this worked in our setup. Followed procedure at http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/VCL/Create+a+Windows+Base+Image Also had to do the following:

RE: proposed change to release Road Map

2010-02-09 Thread Waldron, Michael H
I like that idea. We are not doing anything with cluster reservations now, I'd much rather see VMWare Free Server 2.x sooner. Mike Waldron Systems Specialist ITS Research Computing University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill CB #3420, ITS Manning, Rm 2509 Office: 919-962-9778 -Original

Virtual host profile question

2010-02-02 Thread Waldron, Michael H
I have discovered that I get much better performance on my VCL virtual machines by changing /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines from being on the local disk of the vmhost, to be a network mount from our NAS system. Given that this is a RAIDed filesytem over numerous disks, it performs much better

RE: Windows 7 support

2010-01-27 Thread Waldron, Michael H
I successfully built a vmware-based Windows 7 base image by doing the following: Inserted the following entry in the OS table: +++--+-+-+---+--+ | id | name | prettyname | type| installtype | sourcepath|

RE: Windows 7 support

2010-01-27 Thread Waldron, Michael H
of VMware are you running it on? I tried GSX 1.9 a few months ago and had trouble getting Windows 7 to boot. Did you have to update VMware Tools? I tried the same steps on VMware GSX 2.0 and it worked without problems. -Andy Waldron, Michael H wrote: I successfully built a vmware-based Windows