Hi,

I'm trying to create a pipeline that involves cloning a VM in vSphere (5.5) 
and have a couple of issues - not sure if its what I'm doing or a bug...
My vSphere environment is vCenter Appliance 5.5 + one esxi 5.5 host with 
local datastore and no resource pools defined.
Jenkins 2.53,  vSphere Plugin 2.15


1 - Using the code below, my job runs and does successfully create the 
cloned VM's in vSphere, but the build step fails  (This is inside a 
parallel - I am cloning 2 vm's, only one shown here)

            vSphere buildStep: [$class: 'Clone', 
                clone: "${rhelVer}_Dev_Template", 
                cluster: "Lab", 
                datastore: "esx1-local-v1", 
                linkedClone: false, 
                powerOn: false, 
                resourcePool: 'Resources', 
                sourceName: "${host}"], serverName: 'vcenter_server'


[Pipeline] { (VMWare Templating)
[Pipeline] parallel
[Pipeline] [Cloning buildbot4.lab.example.org] { (Branch: Cloning 
buildbot4.lab.example.org)
[Pipeline] [Cloning buildbot4.lab.example.org] node
[Cloning buildbot4.lab.example.org] Running on master in 
/var/lib/jenkins/workspace/RHEL-SOE_development-HKF2SOLEQLI2P6HZSQBCKB3ZUWDAHUYCN2CU7VVYPM4WIKG732JQ
[Pipeline] [Cloning buildbot4.lab.example.org] vSphere
[Cloning buildbot4.lab.example.org] [vSphere] 
[Cloning buildbot4.lab.example.org] [vSphere] Performing vSphere build 
step: "Clone VM from VM or template"
[Cloning buildbot4.lab.example.org] [vSphere] Attempting to use server 
configuration: "vcenter_server"
[Cloning buildbot4.lab.example.org] [vSphere] Creating a deep clone of 
"buildbot4.lab.example.org" to "RHEL6_Server_Dev_Template"
[Cloning buildbot4.lab.example.org] [vSphere] Clone of VM 
"buildbot4.lab.example.org" will be based on current snapshot 
"VirtualMachineSnapshot:snapshot-210 @ https://vcenter.lab.example.org/sdk";.
[Cloning buildbot4.lab.example.org] [vSphere] Started cloning of VM 
"buildbot4.lab.example.org". Please wait ...
[Cloning buildbot4.lab.example.org] [vSphere] Successfully cloned VM 
"buildbot4.lab.example.org" to create "RHEL6_Server_Dev_Template".
[Cloning buildbot4.lab.example.org] [vSphere] "RHEL6_Server_Dev_Template" 
successfully cloned!
[Pipeline] [Cloning buildbot4.lab.example.org] }
[Pipeline] [Cloning buildbot4.lab.example.org] // node
[Pipeline] [Cloning buildbot4.lab.example.org] }
[Cloning buildbot4.lab.example.org] Failed in branch Cloning 
buildbot4.lab.example.org


In vCenter the cloned VM is indeed there and can be powered on - so the 
clone did work... why would the branch be failing?




2 - I cannot get the pipeline syntax generator to generate anything other 
than an NPE:
(Attached screen capture - what is the serverName expected in the 
resourcePool field? I've tried all sorts with the same result)

Stack trace

java.lang.NullPointerException
        at 
org.jenkinsci.plugins.vsphere.builders.Clone$CloneDescriptor.doTestData(Clone.java:254)
Caused: java.lang.RuntimeException
        at 
org.jenkinsci.plugins.vsphere.builders.Clone$CloneDescriptor.doTestData(Clone.java:261)
        at 
java.lang.invoke.MethodHandle.invokeWithArguments(MethodHandle.java:627)
        at org.kohsuke.stapler.Function$MethodFunction.invoke(Function.java:343)
        at org.kohsuke.stapler.Function.bindAndInvoke(Function.java:184)
        at 
org.kohsuke.stapler.Function.bindAndInvokeAndServeResponse(Function.java:117)
        at org.kohsuke.stapler.MetaClass$1.doDispatch(MetaClass.java:129)
        at 
org.kohsuke.stapler.NameBasedDispatcher.dispatch(NameBasedDispatcher.java:58)
        at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.tryInvoke(Stapler.java:715)
Caused: javax.servlet.ServletException
        at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.tryInvoke(Stapler.java:765)
        at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.invoke(Stapler.java:845)
        at org.kohsuke.stapler.MetaClass$5.doDispatch(MetaClass.java:248)
        at 
org.kohsuke.stapler.NameBasedDispatcher.dispatch(NameBasedDispatcher.java:58)
        at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.tryInvoke(Stapler.java:715)
        at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.invoke(Stapler.java:845)
        at org.kohsuke.stapler.MetaClass$10.dispatch(MetaClass.java:374)
        at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.tryInvoke(Stapler.java:715)
        at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.invoke(Stapler.java:845)
        at org.kohsuke.stapler.MetaClass$5.doDispatch(MetaClass.java:248)
        at 
org.kohsuke.stapler.NameBasedDispatcher.dispatch(NameBasedDispatcher.java:58)
        at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.tryInvoke(Stapler.java:715)
        at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.invoke(Stapler.java:845)
        at org.kohsuke.stapler.MetaClass$5.doDispatch(MetaClass.java:248)
        at 
org.kohsuke.stapler.NameBasedDispatcher.dispatch(NameBasedDispatcher.java:58)
        at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.tryInvoke(Stapler.java:715)
        at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.invoke(Stapler.java:845)
        at org.kohsuke.stapler.MetaClass$5.doDispatch(MetaClass.java:248)
        at 
org.kohsuke.stapler.NameBasedDispatcher.dispatch(NameBasedDispatcher.java:58)
        at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.tryInvoke(Stapler.java:715)
        at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.invoke(Stapler.java:845)
        at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.invoke(Stapler.java:649)
        at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.service(Stapler.java:238)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:790)
        at 
org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:812)
        at 
org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1669)
        at 
hudson.util.PluginServletFilter$1.doFilter(PluginServletFilter.java:135)
        at 
org.jenkinsci.plugins.ssegateway.Endpoint$SSEListenChannelFilter.doFilter(Endpoint.java:225)
        at 
hudson.util.PluginServletFilter$1.doFilter(PluginServletFilter.java:132)
        at 
io.jenkins.blueocean.ResourceCacheControl.doFilter(ResourceCacheControl.java:134)
        at 
hudson.util.PluginServletFilter$1.doFilter(PluginServletFilter.java:132)
        at jenkins.metrics.impl.MetricsFilter.doFilter(MetricsFilter.java:125)
        at 
hudson.util.PluginServletFilter$1.doFilter(PluginServletFilter.java:132)
        at 
org.jenkinsci.plugins.modernstatus.ModernStatusFilter.doFilter(ModernStatusFilter.java:52)
        at 
hudson.util.PluginServletFilter$1.doFilter(PluginServletFilter.java:132)
        at 
hudson.plugins.greenballs.GreenBallFilter.doFilter(GreenBallFilter.java:59)
        at 
hudson.util.PluginServletFilter$1.doFilter(PluginServletFilter.java:132)
        at 
hudson.util.PluginServletFilter.doFilter(PluginServletFilter.java:126)
        at 
org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1652)
        at hudson.security.csrf.CrumbFilter.doFilter(CrumbFilter.java:80)
        at 
org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1652)
        at 
hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:84)
        at 
hudson.security.UnwrapSecurityExceptionFilter.doFilter(UnwrapSecurityExceptionFilter.java:51)
        at 
hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:87)
        at 
jenkins.security.ExceptionTranslationFilter.doFilter(ExceptionTranslationFilter.java:117)
        at 
hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:87)
        at 
org.acegisecurity.providers.anonymous.AnonymousProcessingFilter.doFilter(AnonymousProcessingFilter.java:125)
        at 
hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:87)
        at 
org.acegisecurity.ui.rememberme.RememberMeProcessingFilter.doFilter(RememberMeProcessingFilter.java:142)
        at 
hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:87)
        at 
org.acegisecurity.ui.AbstractProcessingFilter.doFilter(AbstractProcessingFilter.java:271)
        at 
hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:87)
        at 
jenkins.security.BasicHeaderProcessor.doFilter(BasicHeaderProcessor.java:93)
        at 
hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:87)
        at 
org.acegisecurity.context.HttpSessionContextIntegrationFilter.doFilter(HttpSessionContextIntegrationFilter.java:249)
        at 
hudson.security.HttpSessionContextIntegrationFilter2.doFilter(HttpSessionContextIntegrationFilter2.java:67)
        at 
hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:87)
        at 
hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:76)
        at hudson.security.HudsonFilter.doFilter(HudsonFilter.java:171)
        at 
org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1652)
        at 
org.kohsuke.stapler.compression.CompressionFilter.doFilter(CompressionFilter.java:49)
        at 
org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1652)
        at 
hudson.util.CharacterEncodingFilter.doFilter(CharacterEncodingFilter.java:82)
        at 
org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1652)
        at 
org.kohsuke.stapler.DiagnosticThreadNameFilter.doFilter(DiagnosticThreadNameFilter.java:30)
        at 
org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1652)
        at 
org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doHandle(ServletHandler.java:585)
        at 
org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:143)
        at 
org.eclipse.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:553)
        at 
org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doHandle(SessionHandler.java:223)
        at 
org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doHandle(ContextHandler.java:1127)
        at 
org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doScope(ServletHandler.java:515)
        at 
org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doScope(SessionHandler.java:185)
        at 
org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doScope(ContextHandler.java:1061)
        at 
org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:141)
        at 
org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:97)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.handle(Server.java:499)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpChannel.handle(HttpChannel.java:311)
        at 
org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpConnection.onFillable(HttpConnection.java:257)
        at 
org.eclipse.jetty.io.AbstractConnection$2.run(AbstractConnection.java:544)
        at winstone.BoundedExecutorService$1.run(BoundedExecutorService.java:77)
        at 
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
        at 
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)



Regards,

Geoff

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