Hi
I've upgraded VCL 2.2.1 -> 2.3 on Friday and would like to share issues and
fixes:
- right after the upgrade all new reservations failed (when vcld needed to
create new VM). I traced it to failing scp command on step when VCL copies .vmx
file to a VM host. There were no errors reported in vcld.conf log file and vcld
proceeded to next steps. Then error was reported on VM host when vcld attempted
to register a VM with non-existing .vmx file. The scp command doesn't get any
options and silently fails. I've added:
if (!defined($options)) {
$options = " -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o
UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null ";
}
to utils.pm, sub run_scp_command, before $options are added to $scp_path. I
think adding these options to ~/.ssh/config would give the same result.
- needed to increase ConnectTimeout in utils.pm. Many (but not all)
reservations failed with error 'Connection timed out during banner exchange'
when VCL was running ssh commands to prepare reservation (3 attempts):
"/usr/bin/ssh -i /etc/vcl/vcl.key -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o
UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o ConnectionAttempts=1 -o ConnectTimeout=3 -l
root -p 22 -x <vcl-computer-name> 'command' ". I've changed ConnectTimeout to
10.
- was getting 'undefined usenls' JS error when I clicked 'Connect' button on
successful reservation. 'Get RDP File' button wasn't available. This happened
b/c I used page.php from VCL 2.2.1, which doesn't define usenls vars. Once I
defined usenls in page.php it fixed the issue (thanks to Josh who pointed the
problem)
- configuring firewall for Windows reservations failed. There is already
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-609 for this problem. I've removed
lines checking for $exit_status in DataStructure.pm and will apply proper fix
later with VCL 2.3.1.
At this point VCL 2.3 runs OK.
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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
