Thanks Aaron.
I have not looked at the code extensively. However, it seems like the slot
value would be interesting as well at that point. (You can tell that was
the first thing at which we looked.) I am not sure if that could be pulled
in or if it is appropriate to do so.
Having said that, I hope pre-configured slots go away at some point. :-)
Wayne F. Schildhauer
IBM Corporation
Research Triangle Park, NC
----- Original Message -----
From: "Aaron Peeler" <aaron_pee...@ncsu.edu>
To: <vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org>
Sent: Thursday, 09 April, 2009 13:01
Subject: Re: xp image power on fail
Also that might be an improvement for the esx.pm to set the default to
512MB if it's less than 512. Created JIRA issue VCL-130
<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-130>
here's the snippet from the vmware.pm module. It's not perfect(doesn't
account for assigning too much ram) but it might help:
#check for memory settings
my $dynamicmemvalue = "512";
if (defined($vmclient_imageminram)) {
#preform some sanity check
if (($dynamicmemvalue < $vmclient_imageminram) && ($vmclient_imageminram <
$vmhost_RAM)) {
$dynamicmemvalue = $vmclient_imageminram;
notify($ERRORS{'OK'}, 0, "setting memory to $dynamicmemvalue");
}
else {
notify($ERRORS{'WARNING'}, 0, "image memory value $vmclient_imageminram
out of the expected range in host machine $vmhost_RAM setting to 512");
}
}
--On April 9, 2009 12:41:33 PM -0400 Wayne Schildhauer
<wschi...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
I found it. The image data in the database had 0 instead of 512. It
seems like we looked at everything but the most obvious....
Wayne F. Schildhauer
IBM Corporation
Research Triangle Park, NC
----- Original Message ----- From: "Wayne Schildhauer"
<wschi...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: "vcl-dev" <vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org>
Sent: Wednesday, 08 April, 2009 18:22
Subject: xp image power on fail
I am sorry for the naive question to come, but we figured out why our
Windows XPs VMs are not powering on. In the deployed vmx file on ESXi,
esx3-windowsxp-v0.vmx, memsize = 0:
!/usr/bin/vmware
config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "4"
memsize = "0"
displayName = "windowsxp-bl1"
guestOS = "other"
<deleted remaining>
This causes VMware ESXi to panic the VM with an ASSERT failure.
Our master configuration file shows it being 512 MB (memsize = "512"),
and the slots appear to be configured for 512 MB as well. I suspect
that memsize is not getting initialized, rather than overwritten, but I
cannot trace where the object that is being given to esx.pm is
originally generated. Perhaps in the reservation?
Thanks....Wayne
Aaron Peeler
OIT Advanced Computing
College of Engineering-NCSU
919.513.4571
http://vcl.ncsu.edu
