UID is not unique error while making reservation
Hi
While testing VCL 2.3 I've discovered following issue (I'm not sure if the same
issue exists in 2.2.1):
...
/usr/bin/ssh -i /usr/local/vcl/etc/vcl/vcl.key -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o
UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o ConnectionAttempts=1 -o ConnectTimeout=3 -l
root -p 22 -x sandbox-vcl-19 '/usr/sbin/useradd -u 6 -d /home/dchebota -m
dchebota -g vcl' 21
2012-07-03
13:02:52|10095|563:555|new|utils.pm:run_ssh_command(5053)|run_ssh_command
output:
|10095|563:555|new| useradd: UID 6 is not unique
...
My userid in vcl.user table is 6, and it conflicts with 'shutdown' user on the
Linux system, which also has UID 6.
I've modified the Linux.pm to add 500 to UIDs 500. I think Linux starts with
UID 500 for new user anyway:
# diff Linux.pm Linux-pm-old
2851,2853d2850
if ($user_uid 500) {
$user_uid = $user_uid + 500;
}
This seemed to fixed the issue.
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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
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Re: Preferred Password under User Preferences ?
Hi Would LDAP authentication be better choice? In this case password policy already enforced by central LDAP server. Users would login to reservations using the same credentials as for VCL front-end (which uses LDAP auth) Linux already has built-in support for LDAP authentication. pGina works well for Windows images. I've not used pGina for extended period of time, done some tests and it looks good. Thanks. On May 30, 2012, at 12:11 , Josh Thompson wrote: Dmitri, I like this idea as well. I think to do it right, there should be password strength enforcing criteria in place to make sure users have strong passwords. I also agree with others that it should be a configurable options. Can you go ahead and create a JIRA issue for this? Thanks, Josh On Friday, May 25, 2012 11:25:00 AM Dmitri Chebotarov wrote: Hi Would it be possible, and is it good idea in general due to possible security risks, to add Preferred Password field on User Preferences page (under RDP File Preferences or Personal Information?) to allow user to provide a password for all his/her reservations? Then VCL would use this password (if it's there) for reservations instead of auto-generated password. This is not an auto-connect option, but at least it will make it easier to use VCL. For the last couple days I've been using VCL for some testing and it would be nice to have the same password for all my reservations. -- 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 - -- - --- Josh Thompson VCL Developer North Carolina State University my GPG/PGP key can be found at pgp.mit.edu All electronic mail messages in connection with State business which are sent to or received by this account are subject to the NC Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties. -- 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 signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail
Re: VCL 2.3 and KVM / Libvirt support
Andy I use CentOS 6.2 as KVM host. -- 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 Tuesday, June 12, 2012 at 14:42 , Andy Kurth wrote: I'll look into the problems you have encountered. What OS are you using for your KVM host? -Andy On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Dmitri Chebotarov dcheb...@gmu.edu (mailto:dcheb...@gmu.edu) wrote: Hi I may have found the issue with image name in libvirt. I don't know if it breaks anything else in libvirt (i.e. update image). Once I made following change, I'm able to capture new image AND reload newly captured image to a computer with no issues. Here is diff file: (also attached). # diff /tmp/libvirt.pm-RC3 Module/Provisioning/libvirt.pm 3c3 # $Id$ --- # $Id: libvirt.pm 1341477 2012-05-22 13:47:34Z fapeeler $ 325,326c325,327 my $new_image_name = $self-get_new_image_name(); $self-data-set_image_name($new_image_name); --- my $new_image_name = $image_name; #my $new_image_name = $self-get_new_image_name(); #$self-data-set_image_name($new_image_name); I still cannot make reservation for KVM-based image. Getting 'Available Times' dialog box every time when selecting KVM-based image. I think it has something todo with imagetype. It's 29, which is bare-metal, using partimage, i.e. xCAT. -- 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, June 8, 2012 at 12:08 , Dmitri Chebotarov wrote: Hi It looks like image name changes during image capture process. The capture starts with one image name and finishes with a different image name: start: VCL IMAGE Creation Started: centos5image-LinuxCentOS62KVMv399-v0 finish: VCL IMAGE Creation Completed: centos5-LinuxCentOS62KVMv3-99-v0 Imagename in 'vcl.image' table and 'vcl.imagerevision' table is different. Once I update the name in 'vcl.imagerevision' table to match the name in 'vcl.image', I can reload newly captured image fine. I.e.: SELECT imagename FROM imagerevision where imageid=99 and production=1 centos5-LinuxCentOS62KVMv3-99-v0 SELECT name FROM image where id=99 centos5image-LinuxCentOS62KVMv399-v0 I'm attaching image capture log file. I've tried to trace where the image name changes, but cannot find it in the code (libvirt.pm). -- 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 Thursday, June 7, 2012 at 17:15 , Dmitri Chebotarov wrote: Hi Have anyone else tried Libvirt support in VCL 2.3? I'm getting this error, not sure if it's specific to my configuration (# svn up At revision 1347799) During base image capture VCL creates two files per VM in Virtual Disk Path folder (I'm using qcow2 disk format): qemu-img convert /var/lib/libvirt/images/Linux_CentOS_62.img -O qcow2 /var/lib/libvirt/images/baseImages/centos5image-linuxkvm898-v0.qcow2 two files created: centos5image-linuxkvm898-v0.qcow2 centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0.xml The content of centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0.xml is: # cat centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0.xml HASH(0x154d9a50) When I try to reload a computer with new image, VCL is trying to use .xml file as disk image and reload fails. Once I delete .xml and rename image file, it works fine: rm -f centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0.xml mv centos5image-linuxkvm898-v0.qcow2 centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0.qcow2 Llog file: |27378|484:476|reload|utils.pm:insertloadlog(3701)|inserted computer=98, loadimageblade, sandbox-vcl-20 must be reloaded with centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0 2012-06-07 16:42:46|27378|484:476|reload|new.pm:reload_image(616)|calling VCL::Module::Provisioning::libvirt-does_image_exist() 2012-06-07 16:42:46|27378|484:476|reload|OS.pm:find_files(2801)|attempting to find files on BC1-12, base directory path: '/var/lib/libvirt/images/baseImages/', pattern: centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0.*, command: /usr/bin/find /var/lib/libvirt/images/baseImages/ -type f -iname centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0.* 2012-06-07 16:42:46|27378|484:476|reload|OS.pm:find_files(2829)|files found: 1, base directory: '/var/lib/libvirt/images/baseImages/', pattern: 'centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0.*' |27378|484:476|reload| command: '/usr/bin/find /var/lib/libvirt/images/baseImages/ -type f -iname centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0.*', output: |27378|484:476|reload| /var/lib/libvirt/images/baseImages/centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0.xml 2012-06-07 16:42:46|27378|484:476|reload|libvirt.pm:get_master_image_file_path(1011)|found master image file on BC1-12: /var/lib/libvirt/images/baseImages/centos5
Re: VCL 2.3 and KVM / Libvirt support
Hi I may have found the issue with image name in libvirt. I don't know if it breaks anything else in libvirt (i.e. update image). Once I made following change, I'm able to capture new image AND reload newly captured image to a computer with no issues. Here is diff file: (also attached). # diff /tmp/libvirt.pm-RC3 Module/Provisioning/libvirt.pm 3c3 # $Id$ --- # $Id: libvirt.pm 1341477 2012-05-22 13:47:34Z fapeeler $ 325,326c325,327 my $new_image_name = $self-get_new_image_name(); $self-data-set_image_name($new_image_name); --- my $new_image_name = $image_name; #my $new_image_name = $self-get_new_image_name(); #$self-data-set_image_name($new_image_name); I still cannot make reservation for KVM-based image. Getting 'Available Times' dialog box every time when selecting KVM-based image. I think it has something todo with imagetype. It's 29, which is bare-metal, using partimage, i.e. xCAT. -- 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, June 8, 2012 at 12:08 , Dmitri Chebotarov wrote: Hi It looks like image name changes during image capture process. The capture starts with one image name and finishes with a different image name: start: VCL IMAGE Creation Started: centos5image-LinuxCentOS62KVMv399-v0 finish: VCL IMAGE Creation Completed: centos5-LinuxCentOS62KVMv3-99-v0 Imagename in 'vcl.image' table and 'vcl.imagerevision' table is different. Once I update the name in 'vcl.imagerevision' table to match the name in 'vcl.image', I can reload newly captured image fine. I.e.: SELECT imagename FROM imagerevision where imageid=99 and production=1 centos5-LinuxCentOS62KVMv3-99-v0 SELECT name FROM image where id=99 centos5image-LinuxCentOS62KVMv399-v0 I'm attaching image capture log file. I've tried to trace where the image name changes, but cannot find it in the code (libvirt.pm). -- 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 Thursday, June 7, 2012 at 17:15 , Dmitri Chebotarov wrote: Hi Have anyone else tried Libvirt support in VCL 2.3? I'm getting this error, not sure if it's specific to my configuration (# svn up At revision 1347799) During base image capture VCL creates two files per VM in Virtual Disk Path folder (I'm using qcow2 disk format): qemu-img convert /var/lib/libvirt/images/Linux_CentOS_62.img -O qcow2 /var/lib/libvirt/images/baseImages/centos5image-linuxkvm898-v0.qcow2 two files created: centos5image-linuxkvm898-v0.qcow2 centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0.xml The content of centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0.xml is: # cat centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0.xml HASH(0x154d9a50) When I try to reload a computer with new image, VCL is trying to use .xml file as disk image and reload fails. Once I delete .xml and rename image file, it works fine: rm -f centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0.xml mv centos5image-linuxkvm898-v0.qcow2 centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0.qcow2 Llog file: |27378|484:476|reload|utils.pm:insertloadlog(3701)|inserted computer=98, loadimageblade, sandbox-vcl-20 must be reloaded with centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0 2012-06-07 16:42:46|27378|484:476|reload|new.pm:reload_image(616)|calling VCL::Module::Provisioning::libvirt-does_image_exist() 2012-06-07 16:42:46|27378|484:476|reload|OS.pm:find_files(2801)|attempting to find files on BC1-12, base directory path: '/var/lib/libvirt/images/baseImages/', pattern: centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0.*, command: /usr/bin/find /var/lib/libvirt/images/baseImages/ -type f -iname centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0.* 2012-06-07 16:42:46|27378|484:476|reload|OS.pm:find_files(2829)|files found: 1, base directory: '/var/lib/libvirt/images/baseImages/', pattern: 'centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0.*' |27378|484:476|reload| command: '/usr/bin/find /var/lib/libvirt/images/baseImages/ -type f -iname centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0.*', output: |27378|484:476|reload| /var/lib/libvirt/images/baseImages/centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0.xml 2012-06-07 16:42:46 |27378|484:476|reload|libvirt.pm:get_master_image_file_path(1011)|found master image file on BC1-12: /var/lib/libvirt/images/baseImages/centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0.xml 2012-06-07 16:42:46|27378|484:476|reload|Module.pm:new(203)|VCL::Module::Semaphore object created, address: 2179cfe0 2012-06-07 16:42:46|27378|484:476|reload|Module.pm:code_loop_timeout(879)|attempting to open lockfile, maximum of 7200 seconds 2012-06-07 16:42:46|27378|484:476|reload|Semaphore.pm:open_lockfile(175)|opened and obtained an exclusive lock on file: /tmp/master-centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0.semaphore 2012-06-07 16:42:46|27378|484:476|reload|Semaphore.pm:open_lockfile(182)|wrote to file: /tmp/master-centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0.semaphore
Manage Images - Delete Image error (VCL 2.3)
Hi I get a SQL error when trying to delete an image (under Manage Images). This is due a wrong column name used in the images.php (preferredimageid vs nextimageid). Diff is attached. [root@sand-vcl23 .ht-inc]# diff images.php images.php-orig 2711,2712c2711,2712 . SET nextimageid = $noimageid . WHERE nextimageid = $imageid; --- . SET preferredimageid = $noimageid . WHERE preferredimageid = $imageid; -- 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
Re: VCL 2.3 and KVM / Libvirt support
Hi It looks like image name changes during image capture process. The capture starts with one image name and finishes with a different image name: start: VCL IMAGE Creation Started: centos5image-LinuxCentOS62KVMv399-v0 finish: VCL IMAGE Creation Completed: centos5-LinuxCentOS62KVMv3-99-v0 Imagename in 'vcl.image' table and 'vcl.imagerevision' table is different. Once I update the name in 'vcl.imagerevision' table to match the name in 'vcl.image', I can reload newly captured image fine. I.e.: SELECT imagename FROM imagerevision where imageid=99 and production=1 centos5-LinuxCentOS62KVMv3-99-v0 SELECT name FROM image where id=99 centos5image-LinuxCentOS62KVMv399-v0 I'm attaching image capture log file. I've tried to trace where the image name changes, but cannot find it in the code (libvirt.pm). -- 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 Thursday, June 7, 2012 at 17:15 , Dmitri Chebotarov wrote: Hi Have anyone else tried Libvirt support in VCL 2.3? I'm getting this error, not sure if it's specific to my configuration (# svn up At revision 1347799) During base image capture VCL creates two files per VM in Virtual Disk Path folder (I'm using qcow2 disk format): qemu-img convert /var/lib/libvirt/images/Linux_CentOS_62.img -O qcow2 /var/lib/libvirt/images/baseImages/centos5image-linuxkvm898-v0.qcow2 two files created: centos5image-linuxkvm898-v0.qcow2 centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0.xml The content of centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0.xml is: # cat centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0.xml HASH(0x154d9a50) When I try to reload a computer with new image, VCL is trying to use .xml file as disk image and reload fails. Once I delete .xml and rename image file, it works fine: rm -f centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0.xml mv centos5image-linuxkvm898-v0.qcow2 centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0.qcow2 Llog file: |27378|484:476|reload|utils.pm:insertloadlog(3701)|inserted computer=98, loadimageblade, sandbox-vcl-20 must be reloaded with centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0 2012-06-07 16:42:46|27378|484:476|reload|new.pm:reload_image(616)|calling VCL::Module::Provisioning::libvirt-does_image_exist() 2012-06-07 16:42:46|27378|484:476|reload|OS.pm:find_files(2801)|attempting to find files on BC1-12, base directory path: '/var/lib/libvirt/images/baseImages/', pattern: centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0.*, command: /usr/bin/find /var/lib/libvirt/images/baseImages/ -type f -iname centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0.* 2012-06-07 16:42:46|27378|484:476|reload|OS.pm:find_files(2829)|files found: 1, base directory: '/var/lib/libvirt/images/baseImages/', pattern: 'centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0.*' |27378|484:476|reload| command: '/usr/bin/find /var/lib/libvirt/images/baseImages/ -type f -iname centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0.*', output: |27378|484:476|reload| /var/lib/libvirt/images/baseImages/centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0.xml 2012-06-07 16:42:46|2 7378|484:476|reload|libvirt.pm:get_master_image_file_path(1011)|found master image file on BC1-12: /var/lib/libvirt/images/baseImages/centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0.xml 2012-06-07 16:42:46|27378|484:476|reload|Module.pm:new(203)|VCL::Module::Semaphore object created, address: 2179cfe0 2012-06-07 16:42:46|27378|484:476|reload|Module.pm:code_loop_timeout(879)|attempting to open lockfile, maximum of 7200 seconds 2012-06-07 16:42:46|27378|484:476|reload|Semaphore.pm:open_lockfile(175)|opened and obtained an exclusive lock on file: /tmp/master-centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0.semaphore 2012-06-07 16:42:46|27378|484:476|reload|Semaphore.pm:open_lockfile(182)|wrote to file: /tmp/master-centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0.semaphore, contents: |27378|484:476|reload| '27378 vcld 484:476 reload sandbox-vcl-20BC1-12 centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0 vclreload' 2012-06-07 16:42:46|27378|484:476|reload|Module.pm:code_loop_timeout(899)|attempting to open lockfile, code returned true 2012-06-07 16:42:46|27378|484:476|reload|Module.pm:g et_semaphore(977)|created 'master:centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0' Semaphore object, memory address: 2179cfe0 2012-06-07 16:42:46|27378|484:476|reload|utils.pm:run_ssh_command(4928)|executing SSH command on BC1-12: |27378|484:476|reload| /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 BC1-12 'stat \/var\/lib\/libvirt\/images\/baseImages\/centos5\-linuxkvm8\-98\-v0\.xml' 21 2012-06-07 16:42:46|27378|484:476|reload|utils.pm:run_ssh_command(5046)|run_ssh_command output: |27378|484:476|reload| File: `/var/lib/libvirt/images/baseImages/centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0.xml' |27378|484:476|reload| Size: 16 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 65536 regular file |27378|484:476|reload| Device: 1bh/27d Inode: 24549393 Links: 1 |27378|484:476|reload| Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root) |27378|484:476|reload| Access: 2012-06-07 16:45:02.507151000 -0400 |27378|484
[jira] [Updated] (VCL-593) Documentation Links on VCL Home Page
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-593?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Dmitri Chebotarov updated VCL-593: -- Attachment: Untitled.2.pdf Code changes necessary to add Help/Docs links to VCL login page (PDF file attached - Untitled.2.pdf). The change is for VCL 2.3. Documentation Links on VCL Home Page Key: VCL-593 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-593 Project: VCL Issue Type: New Feature Components: web gui (frontend) Affects Versions: 2.2.1 Reporter: Mark Craft Priority: Trivial Fix For: 2.4 Attachments: Untitled.2.pdf, VCLDocLinks.JPG Request from End User to add a link to the VCL home page for documentation on how to use the system. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
Re: VCL 2.3 and KVM / Libvirt support
Hi Have anyone else tried Libvirt support in VCL 2.3? I'm getting this error, not sure if it's specific to my configuration (# svn up At revision 1347799) During base image capture VCL creates two files per VM in Virtual Disk Path folder (I'm using qcow2 disk format): qemu-img convert /var/lib/libvirt/images/Linux_CentOS_62.img -O qcow2 /var/lib/libvirt/images/baseImages/centos5image-linuxkvm898-v0.qcow2 two files created: centos5image-linuxkvm898-v0.qcow2 centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0.xml The content of centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0.xml is: # cat centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0.xml HASH(0x154d9a50) When I try to reload a computer with new image, VCL is trying to use .xml file as disk image and reload fails. Once I delete .xml and rename image file, it works fine: rm -f centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0.xml mv centos5image-linuxkvm898-v0.qcow2 centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0.qcow2 Llog file: |27378|484:476|reload|utils.pm:insertloadlog(3701)|inserted computer=98, loadimageblade, sandbox-vcl-20 must be reloaded with centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0 2012-06-07 16:42:46|27378|484:476|reload|new.pm:reload_image(616)|calling VCL::Module::Provisioning::libvirt-does_image_exist() 2012-06-07 16:42:46|27378|484:476|reload|OS.pm:find_files(2801)|attempting to find files on BC1-12, base directory path: '/var/lib/libvirt/images/baseImages/', pattern: centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0.*, command: /usr/bin/find /var/lib/libvirt/images/baseImages/ -type f -iname centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0.* 2012-06-07 16:42:46|27378|484:476|reload|OS.pm:find_files(2829)|files found: 1, base directory: '/var/lib/libvirt/images/baseImages/', pattern: 'centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0.*' |27378|484:476|reload| command: '/usr/bin/find /var/lib/libvirt/images/baseImages/ -type f -iname centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0.*', output: |27378|484:476|reload| /var/lib/libvirt/images/baseImages/centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0.xml 2012-06-07 16:42:46|273 78|484:476|reload|libvirt.pm:get_master_image_file_path(1011)|found master image file on BC1-12: /var/lib/libvirt/images/baseImages/centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0.xml 2012-06-07 16:42:46|27378|484:476|reload|Module.pm:new(203)|VCL::Module::Semaphore object created, address: 2179cfe0 2012-06-07 16:42:46|27378|484:476|reload|Module.pm:code_loop_timeout(879)|attempting to open lockfile, maximum of 7200 seconds 2012-06-07 16:42:46|27378|484:476|reload|Semaphore.pm:open_lockfile(175)|opened and obtained an exclusive lock on file: /tmp/master-centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0.semaphore 2012-06-07 16:42:46|27378|484:476|reload|Semaphore.pm:open_lockfile(182)|wrote to file: /tmp/master-centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0.semaphore, contents: |27378|484:476|reload| '27378 vcld 484:476 reload sandbox-vcl-20BC1-12 centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0 vclreload' 2012-06-07 16:42:46|27378|484:476|reload|Module.pm:code_loop_timeout(899)|attempting to open lockfile, code returned true 2012-06-07 16:42:46|27378|484:476|reload|Module.pm:get _semaphore(977)|created 'master:centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0' Semaphore object, memory address: 2179cfe0 2012-06-07 16:42:46|27378|484:476|reload|utils.pm:run_ssh_command(4928)|executing SSH command on BC1-12: |27378|484:476|reload| /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 BC1-12 'stat \/var\/lib\/libvirt\/images\/baseImages\/centos5\-linuxkvm8\-98\-v0\.xml' 21 2012-06-07 16:42:46|27378|484:476|reload|utils.pm:run_ssh_command(5046)|run_ssh_command output: |27378|484:476|reload| File: `/var/lib/libvirt/images/baseImages/centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0.xml' |27378|484:476|reload| Size: 16 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 65536 regular file |27378|484:476|reload| Device: 1bh/27d Inode: 24549393 Links: 1 |27378|484:476|reload| Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root) |27378|484:476|reload| Access: 2012-06-07 16:45:02.507151000 -0400 |27378|484:476|reload| Modify: 2012-06-07 16:45:02. 507153000 -0400 |27378|484:476|reload| Change: 2012-06-07 16:45:02.507153000 -0400 2012-06-07 16:42:46|27378|484:476|reload|utils.pm:run_ssh_command(5060)|SSH command executed on BC1-12, returning (0, File: `/var/lib/libvirt/images...) 2012-06-07 16:42:46|27378|484:476|reload|Linux.pm:file_exists(1335)|'/var/lib/libvirt/images/baseImages/centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0.xml' exists on BC1-12, files: 1, directories: 0, links: 0 2012-06-07 16:42:46|27378|484:476|reload|libvirt.pm:does_image_exist(478)|centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0 image exists on BC1-12: /var/lib/libvirt/images/baseImages/centos5-linuxkvm8-98-v0.xml -- 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 Thursday, June 7, 2012 at 14:18 , Dmitri Chebotarov wrote: Hi Has anyone tried KVM support in 2.3? I got it working to a point where I can capture a Linux image and able to reload a VM computer with new KVM-based image via 'Manage Computers'. The VM
Preferred Password under User Preferences ?
Hi Would it be possible, and is it good idea in general due to possible security risks, to add Preferred Password field on User Preferences page (under RDP File Preferences or Personal Information?) to allow user to provide a password for all his/her reservations? Then VCL would use this password (if it's there) for reservations instead of auto-generated password. This is not an auto-connect option, but at least it will make it easier to use VCL. For the last couple days I've been using VCL for some testing and it would be nice to have the same password for all my reservations. -- 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
Re: Andy Kurth as PMC chair after graduation
+1 -- 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 Thursday, May 24, 2012 at 11:44 , Hidalgo, Rommel wrote: +1 Rommel Hidalgo Division of Information Technology California State University, Fullerton rhida...@fullerton.edu (mailto:rhida...@fullerton.edu) -Original Message- From: Aaron Coburn [mailto:acob...@amherst.edu] Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 8:04 AM To: vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org (mailto:vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org) Subject: [VOTE] Andy Kurth as PMC chair after graduation All, I would like to nominate Andy Kurth as the first VCL chair. This is a position that is responsible for the proper operation of the VCL project. Selecting someone for this position is also a necessary step in the process of graduating from incubator status to a top-level Apache project. For those of you interested in the details, they can be found here: http://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html#tlp-resolution The process is like so: anyone can nominate a person to serve in this role, and these nominations are discussed and voted upon in the community. Based on the consensus from the community, the PPMC (Podling Project Management Committee) makes a recommendation to the ASF Board, which actually appoints the chair. -Aaron Coburn -- Aaron Coburn Systems Administrator and Programmer Academic Technology Services, Amherst College acob...@amherst.edumailto:acob...@amherst.edu
Re: Max Number of VMs per Host
Here is some info: http://myvirtualcloud.net/?p=1155 This is for VMware View which could be approximated to VCL. There is also limits per VMFS datastore (if you not using NFS). I have seen different recommendations for VM number per ESXi host per shared VMFS - VMWare recommends 16 VMs per Host for shared VMFS for VMFS-v3. What hypervisor do use for VCL? Thanks. -- 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 Thursday, May 24, 2012 at 11:42 , Young h Oh wrote: Normally, you can calculate the average number of VMs depends on the computing power (CPU). For example, 1 physical core can supports 2 VMs with 2 GB RAM. If you have 2 CPUs with 16 cores, then you might run 32VMs with 64GB RAM. However, the max number of VMs per host depends on variable facts as Al Quiros mentioned, In addition to Al's comments, you might also consider the application you want to run on guest VMs. If applications are more computation intensive, the number of CPUs would be important fact to decide the max number of VMs per host. In our environment, we don't use VMware but running RHEL 6 x64 with KVM on IBM blade hosts with 16 CPUs and 24GB RAM. We run average 15 Windows XP VMs with 1GB memory without much performance overhead. However, we can run up to 22 VMs but the performance was not good. Best regards, Young Hyun Oh IBM Tivoli Evelio Quiros ---05/24/2012 10:58:12 AM---Hello, As you know, the number of Virtual Machines per host depends on available resources (CPU, RAM From: Evelio Quiros evq...@fiu.edu (mailto:evq...@fiu.edu) To: vcl-u...@incubator.apache.org (mailto:vcl-u...@incubator.apache.org) vcl-u...@incubator.apache.org (mailto:vcl-u...@incubator.apache.org), 'vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org (mailto:vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org)' vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org (mailto:vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org), Date: 05/24/2012 10:58 AM Subject: Re: Max Number of VMs per Host Hello, As you know, the number of Virtual Machines per host depends on available resources (CPU, RAM, Disk), as well as the demands of the image. As a general guide, I have found the following to be reasonable. Other admins, please share your opinions. For a single VM host with 12 virtual CPU and 98 GB RAM, I typically allocate 25 Windows VM. When necessary, I have raised it to 32 Windows XP machines. For linux based images, I have used 50 VM without issues. Monitor the performance tab on your vSphere client to see if the host is over-worked. On Virtual Machines that require higher performance, I usually will not place them on a host with more than 10 working VM. But the most important thing is to watch the performance closely. You will get a feel for how many VM per host by experience. As always, your mileage may vary. Regards, Al Quiros Florida International University From: Sanders, Arbin D asand...@nccu.edu (mailto:asand...@nccu.edu) Reply-To: vcl-u...@incubator.apache.org (mailto:vcl-u...@incubator.apache.org) vcl-u...@incubator.apache.org (mailto:vcl-u...@incubator.apache.org) Date: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 3:53 PM To: 'vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org (mailto:'vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org)' vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org (mailto:vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org), 'vcl-u...@incubator.apache.org (mailto:'vcl-u...@incubator.apache.org)' vcl-u...@incubator.apache.org (mailto:vcl-u...@incubator.apache.org) Subject: Max Number of VMs per Host All, What is the number of VMs do you all run per VMware host? Is it limited to the RAM limitation for vSphere 5? How many purchase vSphere licenses? Arbin Darren Sanders IT Manager – Academic Computing North Carolina Central University 712 Cecil Street Suite 3014 Durham, NC 27707 919.530.6307 919.530.5097 (Fax) For the Latest ITS Updates and Tips Join Us Online CONFIDENTIALITY: This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. __ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com (http://www.symanteccloud.com/) __
Re: Using VMware as the Hypervisor
Arbin, VCL is using non-persistent disks for all reservations. There is nothing to copy/load during reservation since all ESXi hosts use shared storage for all VM Images (Data Store Path: this has to be on shared datastore). Then you have a 2nd datastore where ESXi keeps deltas for running images (VM Path: this can be local or shared datastore). During reservation, VCL will 1st check if there is an available computer with the image requested. If there is one then it will be used for current reservation (this when you see load times 1 min on GUI). If there is no image available then VCL will create new VM (create .vmx file and upload to ESXi host and register it). The new VM will use non-persistent disk(s), so no .vmdk copied. This process takes time needed to create VM and start it on ESXi host. When you create new image or update existing image VCL will copy .vmdk files, which sometime takes considerable amount of time. -- 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 Tuesday, May 15, 2012 at 15:45 , Sanders, Arbin D wrote: Thanks! Arbin Darren Sanders IT Manager - Academic Computing North Carolina Central University 712 Cecil Street Suite 3014 Durham, NC 27707 919.530.6307 919.530.5097 (Fax) For the Latest ITS Updates and Tips Join Us Online CONFIDENTIALITY: This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. -Original Message- From: Mani Shafa'atDoost [mailto:mani.do...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 3:21 PM To: vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org (mailto:vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org) Subject: Re: Using VMware as the Hypervisor There are a bunch of images in the system and when you request to load an image from VCL website, it save your request in the database. and then in the management node, it checks for new request and copy the requested image to another place and change the VMX file and then call ESXI to register the Image. Best Regards Mani On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Sanders, Arbin D asand...@nccu.edu (mailto:asand...@nccu.edu) wrote: I hope this isn't a stupid question, but how does VMware hypervisor know which image to load? Is the image just sitting there waiting to be used or does it load it from the image repository? ** ** *Arbin Darren Sanders* IT Manager - Academic Computing North Carolina Central University 712 Cecil Street Suite 3014 Durham, NC 27707 919.530.6307 919.530.5097 (Fax) ** ** *For the Latest ITS Updates and Tips Join Us Online** ** **[image: Description: Description: Description: Description: cid:image003.png@01CB6AD0.97665900]*http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=66100342#%21/pages/Durham-NC/NCCU-Eagle-Technical-Assistance-Center-ETAC/249508718552?v=info * *[image: Description: Description: Description: Description: cid:image004.png@01CB6AD0.97665900] http://twitter.com/NCCUETAC CONFIDENTIALITY: This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. ** ** __ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com __ __ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com __ __ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com __
Re: 2.3 nearing release
Hello I've updated https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-579 issue: - attached ESXi.pm module - added comments on how to use it. I'm not sure if this should be included in 2.3, probably not. The module will need more testing. I've created it based on my idea how it could be used at GMU and we haven't deployed it yet. So there is no real-world testing/usage for this module. I have only tested it in sandbox environment. -- 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 Wednesday, May 9, 2012 at 15:53 , Josh Thompson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 All, 2.3 appears to be nearing a release. There are 9 JIRA issues still open. I'd like to aim for *Wednesday of next week* to cut a release candidate. Please try to have any changes you want included in 2.3 submitted and tested by then. Please look through parts of the code that you maintain for any files that have not been updated in 6 months or so to make sure necessary files have been updated and any old stuff has been cleaned out. Specifically, looking under some of the backend code at the modules, the following items have not been updated in 6 months. If you maintain any of these, please let me know if they should be included in the release. If not, I'll drop them since they have not been touched in a while. (Is someone going to commit Dmitri's updates for the ESXi.pm OS module?). managementnode/lib/VCL/Module/OS/Linux/ESXi.pm managementnode/lib/VCL/Module/OS/Linux/ManagementNode.pm managementnode/lib/VCL/Module/OS/Linux/UnixLab.pm managementnode/lib/VCL/Module/OS/Windows/Version_5/2003.pm managementnode/lib/VCL/Module/OS/Windows/Version_5/XP.pm managementnode/lib/VCL/Module/OS/Windows/Version_6/2008.pm managementnode/lib/VCL/Module/OS/Windows/Version_6/7.pm managementnode/lib/VCL/Module/OS/Windows/Version_6/Vista.pm managementnode/lib/VCL/Module/Provisioning/esx.README managementnode/lib/VCL/Module/Provisioning/esx.pm managementnode/lib/VCL/Module/Provisioning/esxthin.README managementnode/lib/VCL/Module/Provisioning/esxthin.pm managementnode/lib/VCL/Module/Provisioning/helloworld.pm managementnode/lib/VCL/Module/Provisioning/vbox.pm managementnode/lib/VCL/Module/Provisioning/vmware.pm managementnode/lib/VCL/Module/Provisioning/xCAT21.pm managementnode/lib/VCL/Module/Provisioning/VMware/vmware_cmd.pm If anyone needs help setting up an area to test code, NCSU may be able to provide you with some resources to do that - just let us know. As a reminder, the release process is to cut a release candidate (RC) and post that to my web space at ASF. Then, I'll start a vote thread on the lists that will remain open for at least 72 hours. If we have a positive vote without any major concerns, the vote passes our community. Then, I'll post a summary of our vote to the Incubator PMC, where another vote will take place that will be open for at least 72 hours (after we graduate, this 2nd vote will no longer be needed). Once that passes, I'll create a release artifact from the RC, publish it, and announce the release. Thanks, Josh ASF VCL release manager - -- - --- Josh Thompson VCL Developer North Carolina State University my GPG/PGP key can be found at pgp.mit.edu All electronic mail messages in connection with State business which are sent to or received by this account are subject to the NC Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk+qyzYACgkQV/LQcNdtPQMhlACeKyZxw27jM7tC3tdleQlRJNml o/AAnRYlBNV0iCjRodxJnqDyFyLW96vx =wdot -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: VCL 2.3
I've tried to use dojo v1.7.2, it didn't work for me. I currently have v1.6.1 and it seems to work fine. I don't have custom built profiles, it doesn't look like it effects ability to use front-end. -- 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 Tuesday, May 8, 2012 at 10:46 , Aaron Coburn wrote: Josh, I am setting up a fresh install of the VCL off of trunk to test the new code. I am wondering, however, about Dojo -- first, there is no information in the INSTALLATION or UPGRADE files about dojo. Second, is it necessary to use the Dojo Toolkit v1.6 or will v1.7.2 (the current release) work? And where can I find the custom built profiles? They don't seem to be in the repository. The web code seems to be looking for them in the dojo/dojo/ directory, but wouldn't it make more sense to put those in the js/ directory and keep the contents of the dojo directory limited to the actual dojo release? Thanks! Aaron Coburn On May 1, 2012, at 1:50 PM, Josh Thompson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You'll also need to download the Dojo Toolkit v1.6, put it in the main web code directory, and name it 'dojo'. You'll see some errors about a missing .js file for most of the pages, but you can ignore them - the missing files are custom compiled dojo profiles for VCL that will be included in the release. When they are missing, dojo just uses everything from the dojo release. Josh On Tuesday, May 01, 2012 1:37:19 PM Aaron Peeler wrote: Hi Dmitri, Yes. The svn repo is: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/vcl/trunk I've completed the UPGRADE notes: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/vcl/trunk/UPGRADE So it might be easier to do a 2.2.1 install and follow the upgrade notes, but use svn co from truck to /root/apache-VCL-23-incubating, since there isn't a release candidate yet I try to run through and update the INSTALLATION file tomorrow. https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/vcl/trunk/INSTALLATION Aaron On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Dmitri Chebotarov dcheb...@gmu.edu (mailto:dcheb...@gmu.edu) wrote: Hi Is it possible to checkout VCL 2.2.3 code? What is the SVN/GIT address? I'm getting test servers ready for VCL 2.2.3. Also looking for long-term server reservations options and been reading that VCL 2.2.3 provides support for this. Are there any docs/drafts on the install procedure and requirement for 2.2.3? 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 - -- - --- Josh Thompson VCL Developer North Carolina State University my GPG/PGP key can be found at pgp.mit.edu All electronic mail messages in connection with State business which are sent to or received by this account are subject to the NC Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk+gIlsACgkQV/LQcNdtPQPZpQCeN29V1cZ989+C3ATpdUjnaHJj zbUAnRmC1XXDUviAKvrRGIMS82prdNJ9 =DC1p -END PGP SIGNATURE- Attachments: - smime.p7s
[jira] [Work started] (VCL-579) provision ESXi as an end-user environment
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-579?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Work on VCL-579 started by Dmitri Chebotarov. provision ESXi as an end-user environment - Key: VCL-579 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-579 Project: VCL Issue Type: New Feature Components: database, vcld (backend) Reporter: Aaron Peeler Assignee: Dmitri Chebotarov Fix For: 2.4 Provision ESX environment for end-user. Requires extending the ESX OS module or creating a new one to preform user reservation tasks -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
[jira] [Updated] (VCL-579) provision ESXi as an end-user environment
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-579?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Dmitri Chebotarov updated VCL-579: -- Attachment: ESXi.pm File ESXi.pm attached provision ESXi as an end-user environment - Key: VCL-579 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-579 Project: VCL Issue Type: New Feature Components: database, vcld (backend) Reporter: Aaron Peeler Assignee: Dmitri Chebotarov Fix For: 2.4 Attachments: ESXi.pm Provision ESX environment for end-user. Requires extending the ESX OS module or creating a new one to preform user reservation tasks -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
[jira] [Commented] (VCL-579) provision ESXi as an end-user environment
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-579?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanelfocusedCommentId=13269718#comment-13269718 ] Dmitri Chebotarov commented on VCL-579: --- xCAT needs to be configured and working. Should be able to deploy a ESXi server using KS script. KS script needs to add external interface and shared ISO storage (optional), i.e.: esxcfg-vswitch -A 'Public VM Network' vSwitch1 esxcfg-vswitch -v vlanID -p 'Public VM Network' vSwitch1 esxcfg-nas -a 'Shared ISO Library' -o NFS_server_IP -s /path/to/volume -y External interface will have vmk1 name. /etc/vcl/vcld.conf needs to have following keys: ESXI_STORAGE_NAME_PREFIX=NFS_Storage # ESXi.pm will add _$user to this key ESXI_STORAGE_ADDRESS=IP or FQDN of NFS server ESXI_STORAGE_VOLUME=/path/to/exported/volume provision ESXi as an end-user environment - Key: VCL-579 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-579 Project: VCL Issue Type: New Feature Components: database, vcld (backend) Reporter: Aaron Peeler Assignee: Dmitri Chebotarov Fix For: 2.4 Attachments: ESXi.pm Provision ESX environment for end-user. Requires extending the ESX OS module or creating a new one to preform user reservation tasks -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
[jira] [Commented] (VCL-579) provision ESXi as an end-user environment
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-579?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanelfocusedCommentId=13269723#comment-13269723 ] Dmitri Chebotarov commented on VCL-579: --- Some notes: * sub grand_access() configures the ESXi server after user clicked Connect! button: - it will mount user's storage, - add user, set reservation password (this requires a change in /etc/pam.d/system-auth to allow less complex passwords used be VCL) and add admin role. - it also scans and register all VMs on user's storage, so user is presented with all the VM he/she already have, just need to power ON. * sub sanitize() will return 1 if user never clicked the Connect! button. ESXi image won't be reloaded, it take some time to reload bare-metal on HS22 server... provision ESXi as an end-user environment - Key: VCL-579 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-579 Project: VCL Issue Type: New Feature Components: database, vcld (backend) Reporter: Aaron Peeler Assignee: Dmitri Chebotarov Fix For: 2.4 Attachments: ESXi.pm Provision ESX environment for end-user. Requires extending the ESX OS module or creating a new one to preform user reservation tasks -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
[jira] [Issue Comment Edited] (VCL-579) provision ESXi as an end-user environment
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-579?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanelfocusedCommentId=13269723#comment-13269723 ] Dmitri Chebotarov edited comment on VCL-579 at 5/7/12 4:03 PM: --- Some notes: * sub grand_access() configures the ESXi server after user click Connect! button: - it mounts user's NFS storage, - add user, set reservation password (this requires a change in /etc/pam.d/system-auth to allow less complex passwords used be VCL) and add admin role. - it also scans and register all VMs on user's storage, so user is presented with all the VM he/she already have, just need to power ON. * sub sanitize() will return 1 if user never clicked the Connect! button. ESXi image won't be reloaded, it take some time to reload bare-metal on HS22 server... was (Author: dimach): Some notes: * sub grand_access() configures the ESXi server after user clicked Connect! button: - it will mount user's storage, - add user, set reservation password (this requires a change in /etc/pam.d/system-auth to allow less complex passwords used be VCL) and add admin role. - it also scans and register all VMs on user's storage, so user is presented with all the VM he/she already have, just need to power ON. * sub sanitize() will return 1 if user never clicked the Connect! button. ESXi image won't be reloaded, it take some time to reload bare-metal on HS22 server... provision ESXi as an end-user environment - Key: VCL-579 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-579 Project: VCL Issue Type: New Feature Components: database, vcld (backend) Reporter: Aaron Peeler Assignee: Dmitri Chebotarov Fix For: 2.4 Attachments: ESXi.pm Provision ESX environment for end-user. Requires extending the ESX OS module or creating a new one to preform user reservation tasks -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
[jira] [Issue Comment Edited] (VCL-579) provision ESXi as an end-user environment
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-579?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanelfocusedCommentId=13269718#comment-13269718 ] Dmitri Chebotarov edited comment on VCL-579 at 5/7/12 4:06 PM: --- xCAT needs to be configured and working. Should be able to deploy a ESXi server using KS script. KS script needs to add external interface and shared ISO storage (optional), i.e.: esxcfg-vswitch -A 'Public VM Network' vSwitch1 esxcfg-vswitch -v vlanID -p 'Public VM Network' vSwitch1 esxcfg-nas -a 'Shared ISO Library' -o NFS_server_IP -s /path/to/volume -y /etc/vcl/vcld.conf needs to have following keys: ESXI_STORAGE_NAME_PREFIX=NFS_Storage # ESXi.pm will add _$user to this key ESXI_STORAGE_ADDRESS=IP or FQDN of NFS server ESXI_STORAGE_VOLUME=/path/to/exported/volume was (Author: dimach): xCAT needs to be configured and working. Should be able to deploy a ESXi server using KS script. KS script needs to add external interface and shared ISO storage (optional), i.e.: esxcfg-vswitch -A 'Public VM Network' vSwitch1 esxcfg-vswitch -v vlanID -p 'Public VM Network' vSwitch1 esxcfg-nas -a 'Shared ISO Library' -o NFS_server_IP -s /path/to/volume -y ESXi.pm module runs 'esxcfg-vmknic -l' on reserved ESXi server and looks for IP address assigned to vmk1 interface. /etc/vcl/vcld.conf needs to have following keys: ESXI_STORAGE_NAME_PREFIX=NFS_Storage # ESXi.pm will add _$user to this key ESXI_STORAGE_ADDRESS=IP or FQDN of NFS server ESXI_STORAGE_VOLUME=/path/to/exported/volume provision ESXi as an end-user environment - Key: VCL-579 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-579 Project: VCL Issue Type: New Feature Components: database, vcld (backend) Reporter: Aaron Peeler Assignee: Dmitri Chebotarov Fix For: 2.4 Attachments: ESXi.pm Provision ESX environment for end-user. Requires extending the ESX OS module or creating a new one to preform user reservation tasks -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
[jira] [Issue Comment Edited] (VCL-579) provision ESXi as an end-user environment
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-579?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanelfocusedCommentId=13269723#comment-13269723 ] Dmitri Chebotarov edited comment on VCL-579 at 5/7/12 4:06 PM: --- Some notes: * sub grand_access() configures the ESXi server after user click Connect! button: - it mounts user's NFS storage, - add user, set reservation password (this requires a change in /etc/pam.d/system-auth to allow less complex passwords used be VCL) and add admin role. - it also scans and register all VMs on user's storage, so user is presented with all the VM he/she already have, just need to power ON. * sub sanitize() will return 1 if user never clicked the Connect! button. ESXi image won't be reloaded, it take some time to reload bare-metal on HS22 server... * to get Public IP address, ESXi.pm module runs 'esxcfg-vmknic -l' on reserved ESXi server and looks for IP address assigned to vmk1 interface. was (Author: dimach): Some notes: * sub grand_access() configures the ESXi server after user click Connect! button: - it mounts user's NFS storage, - add user, set reservation password (this requires a change in /etc/pam.d/system-auth to allow less complex passwords used be VCL) and add admin role. - it also scans and register all VMs on user's storage, so user is presented with all the VM he/she already have, just need to power ON. * sub sanitize() will return 1 if user never clicked the Connect! button. ESXi image won't be reloaded, it take some time to reload bare-metal on HS22 server... provision ESXi as an end-user environment - Key: VCL-579 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-579 Project: VCL Issue Type: New Feature Components: database, vcld (backend) Reporter: Aaron Peeler Assignee: Dmitri Chebotarov Fix For: 2.4 Attachments: ESXi.pm Provision ESX environment for end-user. Requires extending the ESX OS module or creating a new one to preform user reservation tasks -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
[jira] [Issue Comment Edited] (VCL-579) provision ESXi as an end-user environment
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-579?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanelfocusedCommentId=13269718#comment-13269718 ] Dmitri Chebotarov edited comment on VCL-579 at 5/7/12 4:05 PM: --- xCAT needs to be configured and working. Should be able to deploy a ESXi server using KS script. KS script needs to add external interface and shared ISO storage (optional), i.e.: esxcfg-vswitch -A 'Public VM Network' vSwitch1 esxcfg-vswitch -v vlanID -p 'Public VM Network' vSwitch1 esxcfg-nas -a 'Shared ISO Library' -o NFS_server_IP -s /path/to/volume -y ESXi.pm module runs 'esxcfg-vmknic -l' on reserved ESXi server and looks for IP address assigned to vmk1 interface. /etc/vcl/vcld.conf needs to have following keys: ESXI_STORAGE_NAME_PREFIX=NFS_Storage # ESXi.pm will add _$user to this key ESXI_STORAGE_ADDRESS=IP or FQDN of NFS server ESXI_STORAGE_VOLUME=/path/to/exported/volume was (Author: dimach): xCAT needs to be configured and working. Should be able to deploy a ESXi server using KS script. KS script needs to add external interface and shared ISO storage (optional), i.e.: esxcfg-vswitch -A 'Public VM Network' vSwitch1 esxcfg-vswitch -v vlanID -p 'Public VM Network' vSwitch1 esxcfg-nas -a 'Shared ISO Library' -o NFS_server_IP -s /path/to/volume -y External interface will have vmk1 name. /etc/vcl/vcld.conf needs to have following keys: ESXI_STORAGE_NAME_PREFIX=NFS_Storage # ESXi.pm will add _$user to this key ESXI_STORAGE_ADDRESS=IP or FQDN of NFS server ESXI_STORAGE_VOLUME=/path/to/exported/volume provision ESXi as an end-user environment - Key: VCL-579 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-579 Project: VCL Issue Type: New Feature Components: database, vcld (backend) Reporter: Aaron Peeler Assignee: Dmitri Chebotarov Fix For: 2.4 Attachments: ESXi.pm Provision ESX environment for end-user. Requires extending the ESX OS module or creating a new one to preform user reservation tasks -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
[jira] [Issue Comment Edited] (VCL-579) provision ESXi as an end-user environment
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-579?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanelfocusedCommentId=13269718#comment-13269718 ] Dmitri Chebotarov edited comment on VCL-579 at 5/7/12 4:07 PM: --- xCAT needs to be configured and working. Should be able to deploy a ESXi server using KS script. KS script needs to add external interface and shared ISO storage (optional), i.e.: esxcfg-vswitch -A 'Public VM Network' vSwitch1 esxcfg-vswitch -v vlanID -p 'Public VM Network' vSwitch1 esxcfg-nas -a 'Shared ISO Library' -o NFS_server_IP -s /path/to/volume -y /etc/vcl/vcld.conf needs to have following keys: ESXI_STORAGE_NAME_PREFIX=NFS_Storage # ESXi.pm will add _$user to this key ESXI_STORAGE_ADDRESS=IP or FQDN of NFS server ESXI_STORAGE_VOLUME=/path/to/exported/volume was (Author: dimach): xCAT needs to be configured and working. Should be able to deploy a ESXi server using KS script. KS script needs to add external interface and shared ISO storage (optional), i.e.: esxcfg-vswitch -A 'Public VM Network' vSwitch1 esxcfg-vswitch -v vlanID -p 'Public VM Network' vSwitch1 esxcfg-nas -a 'Shared ISO Library' -o NFS_server_IP -s /path/to/volume -y /etc/vcl/vcld.conf needs to have following keys: ESXI_STORAGE_NAME_PREFIX=NFS_Storage # ESXi.pm will add _$user to this key ESXI_STORAGE_ADDRESS=IP or FQDN of NFS server ESXI_STORAGE_VOLUME=/path/to/exported/volume provision ESXi as an end-user environment - Key: VCL-579 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-579 Project: VCL Issue Type: New Feature Components: database, vcld (backend) Reporter: Aaron Peeler Assignee: Dmitri Chebotarov Fix For: 2.4 Attachments: ESXi.pm Provision ESX environment for end-user. Requires extending the ESX OS module or creating a new one to preform user reservation tasks -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
Re: VCL running on Dell Hardware
Hi Arbin, I don't believe VCL is hardware specific, unless you need bare-metal provisioning (xCAT). Any hardware which is capable of running ESXi will work for VCL. With older hardware you may see some performance issues, but as a test-bed it will work fine. Thanks. -- 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 Tuesday, May 1, 2012 at 12:49 , Sanders, Arbin D wrote: Has anyone been able to get this working? I am looking at creating a test bed with some older Dell Servers we have. Arbin Darren Sanders IT Manager – Academic Computing North Carolina Central University 712 Cecil Street Suite 3014 Durham, NC 27707 919.530.6307 919.530.5097 (Fax) For the Latest ITS Updates and Tips Join Us Online CONFIDENTIALITY: This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. __ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com __
VCL 2.2.3
Hi Is it possible to checkout VCL 2.2.3 code? What is the SVN/GIT address? I'm getting test servers ready for VCL 2.2.3. Also looking for long-term server reservations options and been reading that VCL 2.2.3 provides support for this. Are there any docs/drafts on the install procedure and requirement for 2.2.3? 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
Development environment for VCL
Hi, All I'm looking for some help on how to setup development environment for VCL back-end development. I already have working VCL system. I need to debug and troubleshoot new code and changes I plan to make to VCL. I use Komodo IDE. Would it possible to just hit 'run' button and follow the code via IDE? Right now I run vcld and watch vcld.log for errors, then come back to the code to correct issues. I'm working on ESXi.pm module - trying to make reservations for ESXi 4.1 server. Thanks. -- 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
