Great, Thanks Much Alex. On Sunday, February 8, 2015 at 3:04:09 PM UTC-6, Alexander Fisher wrote: > > On Thursday, 5 February 2015 11:42:14 UTC, claude juif wrote: >> >> After digging a bit this issue, >> >> I found that ESXi does not provide mac address at creation time. I just >> created a vm with vsphere client, and check the vmx file. What i get is : >> >> ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000" >> ethernet0.networkName = "Vlan xxx" >> ethernet0.addressType = "generated" >> ethernet0.present = "TRUE" >> >> So i have no mac address for the VM at that time. >> >> Il i boot the VM and check the vmx file again, i get this line : >> >> ethernet0.generatedAddress = "xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx" >> >> So mac address is generated at boot time. >> >> Is there any way i can specify a mac address manually ? >> >> I see in the fog library, that the "generated" parameter for mac address >> is hardcoded. >> >> We can also set it to manually, and adapt foreman UI so i can provide a >> mac address by hand. >> >> I'm not so comfortable with ruby, but i can do my best to fix this. Do >> you have any pointer for where i should start to fix this ? >> >> Regards, >> >> 2015-02-02 12:23 GMT+01:00 claude juif <[email protected]>: >> >>> >>> 2015-01-29 11:53 GMT+01:00 claude juif <[email protected]>: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I've read many things about vmware compute ressource: >>>> >>>> Better VMware support for non-clustered setup : >>>> http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/1945 >>>> >>>> and all attached bugs, but there is still something not clear: >>>> >>>> In Vmware ESXi 5.5 and vsphere, mac address is created when the VM boot >>>> for the first time, so obviously foreman can't retrieve the mac parameter >>>> from ESX. >>>> >>>> So does that mean manage and provision compute ressource on this kind >>>> of setup will never work ? >>>> >>> >>> Any hints on this ? >>> >> > The following is a hack that worked for me... > I struggled a bit generating valid mac addresses that would work with DHCP > (toggling the correct bits in the first octet). > In the end, you can see I've just set the first octet to 0x00 > > Enjoy. > > --- create_vm.rb.orig 2015-02-08 21:00:00.649826556 +0000 > +++ create_vm.rb 2015-02-08 21:00:35.615826533 +0000 > @@ -77,10 +77,18 @@ > :summary => nic.summary, > }, > :backing => create_nic_backing(nic, attributes), > - :addressType => 'generated') > + :addressType => 'Manual', > + :macAddress => randommac()) > } > end > > + def randommac() > + mac_octets = (1..6).collect { rand(256) } > + mac_octets[0] = 0x00 > + format = '%02X' > + mac_octets.collect { |i| format % [i] }.join(':') > + end > + > def create_controller options=nil > options=if options > > controller_default_options.merge(Hash[options.map{|k,v| [k.to_sym,v] }]) >
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