Cool, that's good to know. You could add something like this to
VMware.pm::prepare_vmx
if ($self->data->get_request_forimaging()) {
%vmx_parameters = (%vmx_parameters, ("tools.upgrade.policy" =>
"upgradeAtPowerCycle"));
}
-Andy
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Dmitri Chebotarov <dcheb...@gmu.edu> wrote:
> Andy
>
> This is nice feature, I'll see if I can make it work.
> Thank you.
>
> Also I've found .vmx option : tools.upgrade.policy = "upgradeAtPowerCycle"
>
> Adding it to .vmx file during 'Manage Images -> Create/Update an Image ->
> Create Imaging Reservation' process should update vmware tools on the image
> automatically during boot time.
> I need to find the place in code where .vmx file is created for 'Create
> Imaging Reservation' task and test it.
>
> --
> Thank you,
>
> Dmitri Chebotarov
> Virtual Computing Lab Systems Engineer, TSD - Ent Servers & Messaging
> 223 Aquia Building, Ffx, MSN: 1B5
> Phone: (703) 993-6175
> Fax: (703) 993-3404
>
> On Friday, May 18, 2012 at 10:39 , Andy Kurth wrote:
>
> Many of our images have older versions of VMware Tools installed. I
> don't know of any problems this has caused. Also, VMware Tools isn't
> required. I only install it to make controlling the VM through the
> vSphere console a little easier.
>
> If you do want to upgrade every image automatically, there is a new
> feature in partially done in VCL 2.3 which may help:
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-564
>
> It essentially allows you to drop scripts and other supporting files
> in the appropriate directories on the management node. The scripts
> are automatically run at a particular stage in the reservation. One
> of the intended uses is to allow customizations to be performed
> automatically before an image is captured such as installing/upgrading
> software. You would only need to add a couple lines to image.pm to
> enable this functionality. You would save the VMware Tools .msi and a
> script which installs it in tools/Windows/Scripts/pre_capture. During
> capture, the files in the directory are automatically copied to the
> computer and the script is executed. Let me know if you want to try
> this.
>
> -Andy
>
> On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Dmitri Chebotarov <dcheb...@gmu.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> We plan to update VCL ESXi hosts and it will require VMware Tools update for
> all VMs.
>
> I'm looking at different options on how to update vmware-tools on many base
> images.
>
> One option is to use web GUI to create new image revision with updated tools
> for each image.
>
> Other option would be to create temp. VMs using persistent disk images
> pointing to base images .vmdk files, then update vmware-tools and delete
> temp. VMs (in-place upgrade?).
> This will probably require full shutdown of VCL system to make sure no one
> is using any of the images during the upgrade.
>
> May be someone already done it and could share some recommendations ...
>
> --
> Thank you,
>
> Dmitri Chebotarov
> Virtual Computing Lab Systems Engineer, TSD - Ent Servers & Messaging
> 223 Aquia Building, Ffx, MSN: 1B5
> Phone: (703) 993-6175
> Fax: (703) 993-3404
>
>
