Help or support

2011-11-08 Thread Juanjo
Hello everybody, We are writing from Universitat Autònama de Barcelona Engineering School computer support department. We are trying to install one VCL node with a VMware Server Host as provisioning machine. I have followed the installation process specified in next URL: https://cwiki.apache

Re: Help or support

2011-11-09 Thread Josh Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Juanjo, Welcome to the VCL community! This is definitely the correct list to use for VCL (non-development) related questions. After you have imported the image using 'vcld -setup', you'll need to add the image to an image group. On the Privileges

Re: Help or support

2011-11-10 Thread Juanjo
First at all, many thanks Josh, As I said in my first mail, I have two machines or servers. One is a VCL node with all configuration as I have followed from VCL documentation. The other server i a Ubuntu 8.04 LTS with VMware Server 2.0. In this last server I have two virtual machines that I ha

Re: Help or support

2011-11-10 Thread James O'Dell
It's not necessary to create an image from a physical machine (probably won't work for a vmguest anyway). But, the vcl manager must think the vcl computer is 'available' Here's how to change a computer's state to 'available' Manage Computers => [X] Computer Utilities Submit =>

Re: Help or support

2011-11-10 Thread Josh Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Actually, you don't want to put the vmhost machine into the available state. It needs to be in the vmhostinuse state. The VMs on your vmhost server need to be assigned to the vmhost. To do this, go to Virtual Hosts, select your vmhost, and click C

Re: Help or support

2011-11-10 Thread James O'Dell
It sounded to me like he was trying to create the initial image (vcld -setup). In the past, I've run into what sounded like the same problem. I typically build the initial image as a vmware guest(the vmware guest uses the target ip configuration, cygwin added, etc), and then I use 'vcld -setup

Re: Help or support

2011-11-10 Thread Josh Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Are you talking about the vmhost or the VM being in the maintenance state? vcld -setup definitely won't capture the image when the VM is in the maintenance state, but I'm not sure what it would do if the vmhost was in the maintenance state. Josh

Re: Help or support

2011-11-11 Thread Juanjo
Many Thanks James, I have been able to change the state machines to available. After change the machine state if I try to make a reservation I continue receiving bellow error message: "You don't have access to any environments and, therefore, cannot make any reservations." I am trying to c

Re: Help or support

2011-11-11 Thread Josh Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Juanjo, To have your system ready to capture your first base image, you need to have your vmhost and VMs added to VCL using the VCL website. The following page explains how to do that: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/VCL/VCL+2.2.1+-+Fu

Re: Help or support

2011-11-23 Thread Juanjo
Many Thanks Josh and Juan Jose and others for your help, but I continue with problems to create image. I explain in below lines a little my problems. Josh Thompson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Juanjo, To have your system ready to capture your first base image, you nee

Re: Help or support

2011-11-23 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
Juan Could you please check the following: - VMWARE host is added with following properties: State: vmhostinuse, Type: blade, Provisioning Engine: xCAT 2.x. You can check/change it under Manage Computers. - the VM you are trying to image (lets call it baseImage01) is added with follo

Re: Help or support

2011-12-01 Thread Juanjo
Hello Dmitri, I have checked all your suggestion and it is all configured correctly and the ssh connections from my VCL node work properly, 'ssh -i /etc/vcl/vcl.key u804vmsrv' 'ssh -i /etc/vcl/vcl.key VMXP1' But I continue with the same problem and I can not create the image. I will try to

Re: Help or support

2011-12-01 Thread Juanjo
Hello everybody, I continue looking for my create image problem and I have seen in log this below lines: 2011-12-01 15:19:06|16927|4:4|image|VMware.pm:get_vmhost_api_object(1293)|attempting to load VMware control module: VCL::Module::Provisioning::VMware::vSphere_SDK 2011-12-01 15:19:06|16