Hello Xianqing,
No vcl is not creating the meta file, it's suppose to retrieve all the
*.vmdk files. The current provisioning modules are only creating the
.vmx file.
Isn't there drive dependent information (adpater type, cylinder info) in
the vmdk file? Or is there a way to build that off the raw disk file?
Aaron
On 6/22/10 9:04 AM, [email protected] wrote:
Hi VCL team:
I deploy VCL on the VMware Esx 3i server. So it use esx module and need
both -flat.vmdk and meta-data "*.vmdk". However, for some reason, I
can only
retrive the -flat.vmdk file. Is there any VCL code can automatically
generate meta-data file based on the image file -flat.vmdk?
Thanks,
Xianqing
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From: "Benjamin Gilbert" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, June 21, 2010 03:29 PM
To: "Xianqing Yu" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Glenn Ammons" <[email protected]>; "Peng Ning" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Proto-Olive API key
However, when I try to retrive the image, for instance CentOS, from
the Olive server, I can only get the -flat.vmdk, not metadata vmdk.
For maximum compatibility across different virtual machine monitors,
the agreed design for global Olive stores only a raw-format disk
image, and *not* VMM-specific metadata such as the metadata VMDK
file. At the May 7th meeting, we discussed having proto-Olive
synthesize a metadata VMDK file for VCL, but it was ultimately
agreed that VCL could create this file itself when retrieving an
image from Olive. My understanding is that VCL already has code to
do this; are you able to simply reuse that code?
--Benjamin Gilbert
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Aaron Peeler
Program Manager
Virtual Computing Lab
NC State University
[email protected]
919-513-4571
