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 that you need to use the hostname of the esxi server in the hostname column of the computer table entry you have for your esxi server (rather than the IP address). Because VCL just uses the hostname and not the fully qualified name, make sure you have an entry for the hostname in your /etc/hosts file on the management node.
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Kumar, Amit H. <ahku...@odu.edu> wrote: > 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(646)|found previous > name= > 2010-03-22 16:51:09|15553|2:2|image|esx.pm:capture(648)|SSHing to node to > configure currentimage.txt > 2010-03-22 16:51:09|15553|2:2|image|utils.pm:run_ssh_command(6180)|executing > SSH command on resxi000: > |15553|2:2|image| /usr/bin/ssh -i /etc/vcl/vcl.key -l root -p 22 -x > resxi000 'echo esx3-basewinxp-v0 > /root/currentimage.txt' 2>&1 > 2010-03-22 > 16:51:10|15553|2:2|image|utils.pm:run_ssh_command(6262)|run_ssh_command > output: > |15553|2:2|image| bash: /root/currentimage.txt: No such file or directory > 2010-03-22 16:51:10|15553|2:2|image|utils.pm:run_ssh_command(6272)|SSH > command executed on resxi000, command: > |15553|2:2|image| /usr/bin/ssh -i /etc/vcl/vcl.key -l root -p 22 -x > resxi000 'echo esx3-basewinxp-v0 > /root/currentimage.txt' 2>&1 > |15553|2:2|image| returning (1, "bash: /root/currentimage.txt: ...") > 2010-03-22 16:51:10|15553|2:2|image|esx.pm:capture(658)|Power off command: > /usr/lib/vmware-vcli/apps/vm/vmcontrol.pl --server '128' --vmname resxi000 > --operation poweroff --username 0 --password 'xxxxxxxxxxx' > > #>>>> > 1. Here the server info seems to be wrong. > 2. --vmname should actually be " esx3-basewinxp-v0" and not the > VMguest name; > 3. NOT sure if the username 0 is associated with "root" ??? if > yes then that seems right. > > When I corrected the above info and executed on command line it powered off > the VMguest. > > I am still looking into where the above incorrect info is pulled from so > that I can correct it. Any idea ?? Any database tables ?? > I am also curious to know if we are supposed to name our Vmguest based on > the vmnames? Just for imaging purpose? > > Thank you, > Amit > >
