Re: Problem to create Base Image - VCL 2.2
|utils.pm:delete_computerloadlog_reservation(6829)|removing
computerloadlog entries matching loadstate = begin
2012-06-29
08:23:19|14897|31:31|image|utils.pm:delete_computerloadlog_reservation(6876)|deleted
rows from computerloadlog for reservation id=31
2012-06-29 08:23:19|14897|31:31|image|State.pm:DESTROY(909)|removed
computerloadlog rows with loadstate=begin for reservation
2012-06-29 08:23:19|14897|31:31|image|State.pm:DESTROY(921)|number of
database handles state process created: 1
2012-06-29 08:23:19|14897|31:31|image|State.pm:DESTROY(930)|process has a
database handle stored in $ENV{dbh}, attempting disconnect
2012-06-29 08:23:19|14897|31:31|image|State.pm:DESTROY(932)|$ENV{dbh}:
database disconnect successful
2012-06-29 08:23:19|14897|31:31|image|State.pm:DESTROY(946)|VCL::image
process 14897 exiting
2012-06-29 08:23:19|19357|vcld:REAPER(745)|VCL process exited for reservation
31, PID: 14897, signal: CHLD
* vSphere _SDK
In our esx server do not exist the vmware_images directory and the
structure of the name for the .vmdk files is different
(Virtual9910-flat.vmdk) to the structure showed in the log
(vmwarewin7-testt0335-v0.vmdk)
* SSH
The log shows that the system is unable to retrieve the public and
private network configuration but de command/usr/bin/ssh -i /etc/vcl/vcl.key
-l root -p 22 -x plantilla1 'C:/Windows/Sysnative/ipconfig.exe /all' shows
this:
Configuraci¢n IP de Windows
Nombre de host. . . . . . . . . : plantilla
Sufijo DNS principal . . . . . : ua.mydomain.org
Tipo de nodo. . . . . . . . . . : h¡brido
Enrutamiento IP habilitado. . . : no
Proxy WINS habilitado . . . . . : no
Lista de b£squeda de sufijos DNS: ua.mydomain.org
mydomain.org
Adaptador de Ethernet Conexi¢n de rea local 2:
Sufijo DNS espec¡fico para la conexi¢n. . : ua.mydomain.org
Descripci¢n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : Conexi¢n de red Intel(R)
PRO/1000 MT #2
Direcci¢n f¡sica. . . . . . . . . . . . . : 00-50-56-97-6E-8B
DHCP habilitado . . . . . . . . . . . . . : s¡
Configuraci¢n autom tica habilitada . . . : s¡
Direcci¢n IPv4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . : 172.19.18.15(Preferido)
M scara de subred . . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Concesi¢n obtenida. . . . . . . . . . . . : jueves, 28 de junio de 2012
04:49:10 a.m.
La concesi¢n expira . . . . . . . . . . . : mircoles, 26 de septiembre de
2012 04:49:10 a.m.
Puerta de enlace predeterminada . . . . . : 172.19.18.1
Servidor DHCP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : 172.19.14.109
Servidores DNS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . : 172.19.14.41
172.19.14.42
NetBIOS sobre TCP/IP. . . . . . . . . . . : habilitado
Adaptador de Ethernet Conexi¢n de rea local:
Sufijo DNS espec¡fico para la conexi¢n. . : ua.mydomain.org
Descripci¢n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : Conexi¢n de red Intel(R)
PRO/1000 MT
Direcci¢n f¡sica. . . . . . . . . . . . . : 00-50-56-97-7C-34
DHCP habilitado . . . . . . . . . . . . . : s¡
Configuraci¢n autom tica habilitada . . . : s¡
Direcci¢n IPv4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . : 172.19.18.133(Preferido)
M scara de subred . . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Concesi¢n obtenida. . . . . . . . . . . . : jueves, 28 de junio de 2012
03:26:59 a.m.
La concesi¢n expira . . . . . . . . . . . : mircoles, 26 de septiembre de
2012 03:27:00 a.m.
Puerta de enlace predeterminada . . . . . : 172.19.18.1
Servidor DHCP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : 172.19.14.109
Servidores DNS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . : 172.19.14.41
172.19.14.42
NetBIOS sobre TCP/IP. . . . . . . . . . . : habilitado
Adaptador de t£nel isatap.ua.reduniv.org:
Estado de los medios. . . . . . . . . . . : medios desconectados
Sufijo DNS espec¡fico para la conexi¢n. . : ua.mydomain.org
Descripci¢n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : Adaptador ISATAP de Microsoft
Direcci¢n f¡sica. . . . . . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
DHCP habilitado . . . . . . . . . . . . . : no
Configuraci¢n autom tica habilitada . . . : s¡
Both IP addresses and MAC Addresses for the public and private networks
was configured in Managed Computers.
Any idea to solve this problem?
Kind regards
Darío Zapata
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Re: Problem to create Base Image - VCL 2.2
this: Configuraci¢n IP de Windows Nombre de host. . . . . . . . . : plantilla Sufijo DNS principal . . . . . : ua.mydomain.org Tipo de nodo. . . . . . . . . . : h¡brido Enrutamiento IP habilitado. . . : no Proxy WINS habilitado . . . . . : no Lista de b£squeda de sufijos DNS: ua.mydomain.org mydomain.org Adaptador de Ethernet Conexi¢n de rea local 2: Sufijo DNS espec¡fico para la conexi¢n. . : ua.mydomain.org Descripci¢n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : Conexi¢n de red Intel(R) PRO/1000 MT #2 Direcci¢n f¡sica. . . . . . . . . . . . . : 00-50-56-97-6E-8B DHCP habilitado . . . . . . . . . . . . . : s¡ Configuraci¢n autom tica habilitada . . . : s¡ Direcci¢n IPv4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . : 172.19.18.15(Preferido) M scara de subred . . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0 Concesi¢n obtenida. . . . . . . . . . . . : jueves, 28 de junio de 2012 04:49:10 a.m. La concesi¢n expira . . . . . . . . . . . : mircoles, 26 de septiembre de 2012 04:49:10 a.m. Puerta de enlace predeterminada . . . . . : 172.19.18.1 Servidor DHCP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : 172.19.14.109 Servidores DNS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . : 172.19.14.41 172.19.14.42 NetBIOS sobre TCP/IP. . . . . . . . . . . : habilitado Adaptador de Ethernet Conexi¢n de rea local: Sufijo DNS espec¡fico para la conexi¢n. . : ua.mydomain.org Descripci¢n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : Conexi¢n de red Intel(R) PRO/1000 MT Direcci¢n f¡sica. . . . . . . . . . . . . : 00-50-56-97-7C-34 DHCP habilitado . . . . . . . . . . . . . : s¡ Configuraci¢n autom tica habilitada . . . : s¡ Direcci¢n IPv4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . : 172.19.18.133(Preferido) M scara de subred . . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0 Concesi¢n obtenida. . . . . . . . . . . . : jueves, 28 de junio de 2012 03:26:59 a.m. La concesi¢n expira . . . . . . . . . . . : mircoles, 26 de septiembre de 2012 03:27:00 a.m. Puerta de enlace predeterminada . . . . . : 172.19.18.1 Servidor DHCP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : 172.19.14.109 Servidores DNS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . : 172.19.14.41 172.19.14.42 NetBIOS sobre TCP/IP. . . . . . . . . . . : habilitado Adaptador de t£nel isatap.ua.reduniv.org: Estado de los medios. . . . . . . . . . . : medios desconectados Sufijo DNS espec¡fico para la conexi¢n. . : ua.mydomain.org Descripci¢n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : Adaptador ISATAP de Microsoft Direcci¢n f¡sica. . . . . . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0 DHCP habilitado . . . . . . . . . . . . . : no Configuraci¢n autom tica habilitada . . . : s¡ Both IP addresses and MAC Addresses for the public and private networks was configured in Managed Computers. Any idea to solve this problem? Kind regards Darío Zapata Información Confidencial. La información transmitida es para el uso exclusivo de la persona o entidad a quien va dirigida, y puede contener información de carácter confidencial o privilegiado. Se prohíbe a cualquier persona o entidad distinta al destinatario, cualquier revisión, retransmisión, distribución u otro uso de la información. Si recibió este mensaje por equivocación, atentamente le solicitamos eliminar la información de cualquier equipo de cómputo y hacerlo del conocimiento del remitente. -- 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: RPM-ing VCL 2.2.1
Curtis, I'm not sure if this can help - here a link to building VMware SDK's rpm - http://www.firetooth.net/confluence/display/public/vSphere+Perl+SDK+and+CLI+RPM+Packages. Maybe VMware SDK rpm can be included as 4th package ... Thanks. On Jun 25, 2012, at 19:00 , Curtis C. wrote: Hi All, I've been working on an initial spec file for VCL 2.2.1. Currently I believe all the dependencies, CPAN modules included, can be obtained from the EPEL and RPMForge repositories. If the project is going to support RHEL and CentOS only then providing a RPM could allow you to remove the requirement to run (and maintain) the perl libs install script. Still a bit more work to do, but I thought I would send it along before I get too far to find out if anyone has suggestions/comments/criticisms. :) You can see it here: https://github.com/cybera/rpmspecs/blob/master/vcl.spec Right now it creates 3 packages: a main doc package (just contains the sql files right now), a web package, and a management node package. One question I have is about the: use VMware::Vix::Simple; use VMware::Vix::API::Constants in the VIX_API.pm file. Those libraries are not, AFAIK, distributed with VCL and the official install docs don't ask to have them installed either. But the rpmbuild process picks those modules up as requirements. Thanks, Curtis. -- 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: creating a base image
: process exiting 2012-06-29 12:08:31|11089|10:10|image|VIM_SSH.pm:DESTROY(1685)|vim-cmd call count: 1 2012-06-29 12:08:31|2165|vcld:REAPER(718)|VCL process exited for reservation 10, PID: 11089, signal: CHLD 2012-06-29 12:08:31|2165|10:10|failed|vcld:main(252)|request deleted 2012-06-29 12:10:02|2165|vcld:main(167)|lastcheckin time updated for management node 2: 2012-06-29 12:10:02 -- will -- 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: public/private IP discrepency?
Michael
Could you please check that 'eth0macaddress', 'privateIPAddress' and 'hostname'
(in VCL DB) matches 'hardware ethernet', 'fixed address' and 'host-name'
options in dhcpd.conf for the host? Also, /etc/hosts should have an entry
'privateIPAddress hostname' for captured computer.
Can you also check that ifcfg-eth0 / 1 files don't have HWADDR option?
--
Thank you,
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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 26, 2012 at 8:51 , Michael Jinks wrote:
No, that's not the problem we're having. (We *did* have that problem,
and just deleting the offending rule file no lnoger works in RHEL 6,
but we fixed it by creating
/etc/udev/rules.d/75-persistent-net-generator.rules as a symlink to
/dev/null). At this point, Linux is doing the right thing with its
network devices when the image deploys to new virtual hardware.
The problem is that something -- and I can't think of any suspects other
than something in VCL -- rewrites
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 during the capture process, so
that it comes up with what should be eth0's IP address.
eth0, meanwhile, stays set to use DHCP, and gets the address we've
assigned there, so both interfaces come up with the same IP.
Okay, if VCL wants to write the config for the public-side IP, I thought
I'd try changing the IP Address field in the database to the correct
one for this machine's public interface. But when I do that, vcld tries
to ssh to that address to initiate capture, and of course that fails
because the sshd listening on that interface doesn't trust vcld's key.
So it seems like we're in a catch 22 with our address naming, and I
don't know what I've done wrong.
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 06:23:54PM -0400, Mike Haudenschild wrote:
To clarify: Linux is probably creating an eth2 because it's holding out
that its OLD eth0 (which was in your image) might someday come back.
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Mike Haudenschild
[1]m...@longsight.com (mailto:m...@longsight.com) wrote:
Ahh, I think you're running into this:
[2]http://markmail.org/message/t2ajnaew5qe4jxul
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Michael Jinks [3]mji...@uchicago.edu
(mailto:mji...@uchicago.edu)
wrote:
That's more or less what we're doing. Here are some details:
The source VM I'm capturing from is not represented in DNS at all.
On my management node in /etc/hosts I have:
10.50.84.15 vcl-linux-template-2-bak
[4]128.135.192.15 vcl-linux-template-2
(The second line is for my reference; it shouldn't be used by
anything
as far as I know.)
In dhcpd.conf I have:
host vcl-linux-template-2-bak {
option host-name vcl-linux-template-2;
hardware ethernet 00:50:56:01:99:0f;
fixed-address 10.50.84.15;
filename /tftpboot/pxelinux.0;
option dhcp-server-identifier 10.50.84.2;
next-server 10.50.84.2;
}
In the VCL database, the IP address for this host is 10.50.84.15 and
the
hostname is vcl-linux-template-2-bak.
During capture, when prompted for the hostname or IP address of the
image to capture, I enter the IP address.
That all works fine for starting the capture. But for some reason,
when
the VM image is captured and then immediately redeployed, it comes
up
with its public-facing interface set to 10.50.84.15, and it appears
that
something in the capture process is rewriting the ifcfg-eth1 config
file
to match that address.
That's why I tried changing the IP in the database to the public
one,
which led to the ssh failure.
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 03:51:19PM -0400, Mike Haudenschild wrote:
Hi Mike,
I handle this by running DHCP on the private VCL network, assigning
MAC addresses to specific VMs so as to make them predictable. Then add
each hosts PRIVATE IP to the management node's /etc/hosts file. This
will force the management node to resolve the compute name to the
private IP, instead of the public IP (which is probably coming from
your DNS server).
Regards,
Mike
Sent via iPhone
On Jun 25, 2012, at 15:45, Michael Jinks [5]mji...@uchicago.edu
(mailto:mji...@uchicago.edu)
wrote:
Hi List. Still trying to get a successful capture and deploy to
run;
here's my latest glitch.
In the VCL web interface, under Manage Computers - Edit
Computer
Information, there's a single field for IP address. I've been
entering the private-side IP address for VM's I'm trying to
capture.
...But, a few minutes ago I realized that VCL is using that field
to
rewrite my VM's public-facing address configuration during the
capture
process. Needless to say, that causes a failure when the captured
VM
boots.
So, I tried filling the IP Address field with the public-side
address,
but that causes a failure when we try to capture the image, because
vcld
Re: libvirt/KVM
Andy I did 'svn up' and ran install_perl_libs.pl as well. While trying to make reservation still getting an error. Attached is reservation log. I'll try to trace the error, if you see something what causes it, please let me know. I'll try to capture image with new code little later today and will let you know if it fails. 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 Wednesday, June 20, 2012 at 10:38 , Andy Kurth wrote: There were some definite bugs which I hopefully corrected with the commit from this morning. Be sure to use the latest code from trunk. Also, you'll need to run install_perl_libs.pl (http://install_perl_libs.pl) again. Regarding KVM installation/configuration, I have mainly been working off of Fedora 16. The version of KVM included with Fedora 16 seems more stable than Red Hat or CentOS 6.x. The code should work under these OS's but automatic conversion of existing ESXi images to KVM-compatible qcow2 images probably won't work. The version of qemu-img included with Fedora 16 is able to do the conversion correctly. The versions included with Red Had and CentOS do not. Regarding image conversion, you should be able load an existing vmdk ESXi image on KVM if the image resides in the repository path. The code should copy it to the datastore in the format specified for the image type in the VM profile for your KVM host. Be sure to set this to qcow2. I fixed some bugs which caused base image creation to fail in the commit this morning. Please try this out. I started the following page which describes which components to install and how to configure networking and storage: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/VCL/KVM+Configuration -Andy On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Dmitri Chebotarov dcheb...@gmu.edu (mailto:dcheb...@gmu.edu) wrote: Hi Has anyone tried Libvirt in 2.3 RC3? I've updated VCL 2.2.1 to VCL 2.3 and cannot get Libvirt working. I've made some adjustments and able to successfully capture an image, but cannot make reservation based on the image. I'm using CentOS 6.2 with KVM as VM host (yum groupinstall Virtualization 'Virtualization Client' 'Virtualization Platform' 'Virtualization Tools'). If Libvirt is working for you, could you please share your configuration (ie. VM host version and packages, VCL computer configuration, etc) ? -- 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 Untitled.txt Description: Binary data
Re: libvirt/KVM
I think I'm missing something here. I fail to understand how KVM-based image is linked to libvirt.pm/KVM.pm modules in this case (and if it should). Once I set image.osid to 36, (36 is os.id for vmwarelinux, module 5 - VCL::Module::OS::Linux), vcld is trying to load KVM-based image to a computer with Provisioning Engine set to VMware and using a VMware host. It fails. In this case (image.OSid = 36) there is no link between KVM image and libvirt computers/KVM hosts. 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 Wednesday, June 20, 2012 at 13:06 , Andy Kurth wrote: image.OSid should be set to the id that corresponds to vmwarelinux. OS.moduleid should point to the os_linux module table entry, which has module.perlpackagepath = VCL::Module::OS::Linux. -Andy On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Dmitri Chebotarov dcheb...@gmu.edu (mailto:dcheb...@gmu.edu) wrote: Andy It's pointing to VCL::Module::Provisioning::libvirt This is a result of my earlier attempt to troubleshoot the issue. I've added new OSid, moduleid. The original image.osid was 29, which is CentOS Bare Metal, processed by VCL::Module::OS::Linux. With image.osid set to 29 VCL was trying to use xCAT module to process KVM reservations. At this moment I don't have any xCAT (bare metal) computers available and once I select the [KVM] image for reservation I get popup asking to select available time for reservation, which means that I don't have available resources to support this reservation. When I've added new OSid and moduleid (pointing to VCL::Module::Provisioning::libvirt), I'm able to start reservation, VCLd finds available computers (which are configured to use libvirt engine) and attempts to make reservation on correct KVM host, but fails with error attached in previous email. What should image.osid, moduleid be set to? -- 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, June 20, 2012 at 11:52 , Andy Kurth wrote: For some reason the OS module for the image being loaded is showing as VCL::Module::Provisioning::libvirt. Check which module centos5image-kvmlinuxv4105-v0 is configured to use in the database: image.OSid -- OS.moduleid -- module.perlpackagepath -Andy On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Dmitri Chebotarov dcheb...@gmu.edu (mailto:dcheb...@gmu.edu) wrote: Andy I did 'svn up' and ran install_perl_libs.pl (http://install_perl_libs.pl (http://_perl_libs.pl)) as well. While trying to make reservation still getting an error. Attached is reservation log. I'll try to trace the error, if you see something what causes it, please let me know. I'll try to capture image with new code little later today and will let you know if it fails. 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 Wednesday, June 20, 2012 at 10:38 , Andy Kurth wrote: There were some definite bugs which I hopefully corrected with the commit from this morning. Be sure to use the latest code from trunk. Also, you'll need to run install_perl_libs.pl (http://install_perl_libs.pl (http://_perl_libs.pl) (http://_perl_libs.pl)) again. Regarding KVM installation/configuration, I have mainly been working off of Fedora 16. The version of KVM included with Fedora 16 seems more stable than Red Hat or CentOS 6.x. The code should work under these OS's but automatic conversion of existing ESXi images to KVM-compatible qcow2 images probably won't work. The version of qemu-img included with Fedora 16 is able to do the conversion correctly. The versions included with Red Had and CentOS do not. Regarding image conversion, you should be able load an existing vmdk ESXi image on KVM if the image resides in the repository path. The code should copy it to the datastore in the format specified for the image type in the VM profile for your KVM host. Be sure to set this to qcow2. I fixed some bugs which caused base image creation to fail in the commit this morning. Please try this out. I started the following page which describes which components to install and how to configure networking and storage: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/VCL/KVM+Configuration -Andy On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Dmitri Chebotarov dcheb...@gmu.edu (mailto:dcheb...@gmu.edu) wrote: Hi Has anyone tried Libvirt
Re: libvirt/KVM
Andy Success! Thank you for your help. Correct, I'm working with KVM-based Linux image. I was able to make it work with a slight changes. Do you have any entries in vcl.OS table with installtype='libvirt'? The only way I'm able to make reservations is by adding new entry into vcl.OS table and then setting image.osid to the id of the new entry (49 in my case): This is the entry I've added: select * from OS where installtype='libvirt'; ++--+--+---+-+---+--+ | id | name | prettyname | type | installtype | sourcepath | moduleid | ++--+--+---+-+---+--+ | 49 | libvirtlinux | CentOS 5/6 (libvirt) | linux | libvirt | vmware_images | 5 | ++--+--+---+-+---+--+ 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 Wednesday, June 20, 2012 at 15:43 , Andy Kurth wrote: I'm confused about what you're trying to load. Is centos5image-kvmlinuxv4105-v0 a bare metal image? The reservation info you sent earlier had this image being loaded on the virtual machine sandbox-vcl-19. Assuming you have a Linux VM image, its OSid should be set to vmwarelinux, which should be pointing to VCL::Module::OS::Linux. The computer.provisioningid value of the VM should be set the libvirt entry in the provisioning table, which should be pointing to VCL::Module::Provisioning::libvirt. -Andy On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Dmitri Chebotarov dcheb...@gmu.edu (mailto:dcheb...@gmu.edu) wrote: I think I'm missing something here. I fail to understand how KVM-based image is linked to libvirt.pm/KVM.pm modules in this case (and if it should). Once I set image.osid to 36, (36 is os.id for vmwarelinux, module 5 - VCL::Module::OS::Linux), vcld is trying to load KVM-based image to a computer with Provisioning Engine set to VMware and using a VMware host. It fails. In this case (image.OSid = 36) there is no link between KVM image and libvirt computers/KVM hosts. 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 Wednesday, June 20, 2012 at 13:06 , Andy Kurth wrote: image.OSid should be set to the id that corresponds to vmwarelinux. OS.moduleid should point to the os_linux module table entry, which has module.perlpackagepath = VCL::Module::OS::Linux. -Andy On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Dmitri Chebotarov dcheb...@gmu.edu (mailto:dcheb...@gmu.edu) wrote: Andy It's pointing to VCL::Module::Provisioning::libvirt This is a result of my earlier attempt to troubleshoot the issue. I've added new OSid, moduleid. The original image.osid was 29, which is CentOS Bare Metal, processed by VCL::Module::OS::Linux. With image.osid set to 29 VCL was trying to use xCAT module to process KVM reservations. At this moment I don't have any xCAT (bare metal) computers available and once I select the [KVM] image for reservation I get popup asking to select available time for reservation, which means that I don't have available resources to support this reservation. When I've added new OSid and moduleid (pointing to VCL::Module::Provisioning::libvirt), I'm able to start reservation, VCLd finds available computers (which are configured to use libvirt engine) and attempts to make reservation on correct KVM host, but fails with error attached in previous email. What should image.osid, moduleid be set to? -- 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, June 20, 2012 at 11:52 , Andy Kurth wrote: For some reason the OS module for the image being loaded is showing as VCL::Module::Provisioning::libvirt. Check which module centos5image-kvmlinuxv4105-v0 is configured to use in the database: image.OSid -- OS.moduleid -- module.perlpackagepath -Andy On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Dmitri Chebotarov dcheb...@gmu.edu (mailto:dcheb...@gmu.edu) wrote: Andy I did 'svn up' and ran install_perl_libs.pl (http://install_perl_libs.pl (http://_perl_libs.pl) (http://_perl_libs.pl)) as well. While trying to make reservation still getting an error. Attached is reservation log. I'll try to trace the error, if you see something what causes it, please let me know. I'll try to capture image with new code little
libvirt/KVM
Hi Has anyone tried Libvirt in 2.3 RC3? I've updated VCL 2.2.1 to VCL 2.3 and cannot get Libvirt working. I've made some adjustments and able to successfully capture an image, but cannot make reservation based on the image. I'm using CentOS 6.2 with KVM as VM host (yum groupinstall Virtualization 'Virtualization Client' 'Virtualization Platform' 'Virtualization Tools'). If Libvirt is working for you, could you please share your configuration (ie. VM host version and packages, VCL computer configuration, etc) ? -- 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: Making Documentation link available on the very 1st page?
-- Hi To be fair, I need to say that the idea wasn't my and most of the work adding this option was done by Mark Craft. I just continued his work, tested it and attached the code. -- 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 8:18 , Aaron Peeler wrote: Hi Dmitri, I think it's a great idea and looks good. Aaron On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Dmitri Chebotarov dcheb...@gmu.edu (mailto:dcheb...@gmu.edu) wrote: Please take a look at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-593, which suggests possible solution to add links to VCL login page. -- 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 9:02 , Mark Gardner wrote: I like the idea of making it easier to get information about VCL. Mark On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Josh Thompson josh_thomp...@ncsu.edu (mailto:josh_thomp...@ncsu.edu) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dmitri, I like the idea of having a link to more information about VCL without requiring people to first log in to see the link. However, I think it would be strange to only have a single item in the navigation area on the left. How about adding a few information links? Maybe something like the following: What is VCL? Using VCL Getting Access to VCL Each would be a link to the Apache VCL site by default, but could be changed for individual sites if so desired. What do others think? Josh On Tuesday, June 05, 2012 4:10:34 PM Dmitri Chebotarov wrote: Hi Is it possible to make Documentation link available on very 1st page at VCL website? If possible it should be on the left pane, where modules links usually displayed after login. User can click an learn about VCL system before they need to select authentication and/or login to the VCL. -- 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/PcdMACgkQV/LQcNdtPQPGRwCfSQBkbC7TXrvI3jmshi5mgAPN 7Z0An3FluOiAouvLutqbF1AQGn0qtkim =zuIY -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Mark Gardner -- -- Aaron Peeler Program Manager Virtual Computing Lab NC State University 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.
Re: Making Documentation link available on the very 1st page?
Please take a look at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-593, which suggests possible solution to add links to VCL login page. -- 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 9:02 , Mark Gardner wrote: I like the idea of making it easier to get information about VCL. Mark On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Josh Thompson josh_thomp...@ncsu.edu (mailto:josh_thomp...@ncsu.edu) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dmitri, I like the idea of having a link to more information about VCL without requiring people to first log in to see the link. However, I think it would be strange to only have a single item in the navigation area on the left. How about adding a few information links? Maybe something like the following: What is VCL? Using VCL Getting Access to VCL Each would be a link to the Apache VCL site by default, but could be changed for individual sites if so desired. What do others think? Josh On Tuesday, June 05, 2012 4:10:34 PM Dmitri Chebotarov wrote: Hi Is it possible to make Documentation link available on very 1st page at VCL website? If possible it should be on the left pane, where modules links usually displayed after login. User can click an learn about VCL system before they need to select authentication and/or login to the VCL. -- 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/PcdMACgkQV/LQcNdtPQPGRwCfSQBkbC7TXrvI3jmshi5mgAPN 7Z0An3FluOiAouvLutqbF1AQGn0qtkim =zuIY -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Mark Gardner --
Making Documentation link available on the very 1st page?
Hi Is it possible to make Documentation link available on very 1st page at VCL website? If possible it should be on the left pane, where modules links usually displayed after login. User can click an learn about VCL system before they need to select authentication and/or login to the VCL. -- 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: Max Number of VMs per Host
True, would be interesting to compare other supported hypervisors to ESXi. With limits in ESXi 5.0 free versions many will be looking for alternative hypervisors. I remember seeing support for Xen in future VCL releases - does it include Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) and XenServer 5.6/6 ? -- 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 21:03 , Sanders, Arbin D wrote: How about other hypervisors? KVM limits? Arbin D. Sanders Sent from my Motorola Smartphone on the Now Network from Sprint! -Original message- From: Dmitri Chebotarov dcheb...@gmu.edu (mailto:dcheb...@gmu.edu) To: vcl-user@incubator.apache.org (mailto:vcl-user@incubator.apache.org) vcl-user@incubator.apache.org (mailto:vcl-user@incubator.apache.org) Cc: vcl-user@incubator.apache.org (mailto:vcl-user@incubator.apache.org) vcl-user@incubator.apache.org (mailto:vcl-user@incubator.apache.org), vcl-...@incubator.apache.org (mailto:vcl-...@incubator.apache.org) vcl-...@incubator.apache.org (mailto:vcl-...@incubator.apache.org) Sent: Thu, May 24, 2012 17:54:59 EDT Subject: Re: Max Number of VMs per Host This link may be helpful http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_UScmd=displayKCexternalId=2000935 On May 24, 2012, at 5:32 PM, Alexander Patterson alexander.patter...@csueastbay.edu (mailto:alexander.patter...@csueastbay.edu) wrote: I'm not sure from what I have been reading, might want to contact your VMware Rep and see what they can do if you plan on upgrading to 5. WIth ESXI 4.1 Infrastructure limitations Some limitations in ESX Server 4 may constrain the design of data centers: Guest system maximum RAM: 255 GB Host system maximum RAM: 1 TB[ Number of hosts in a high availability cluster: 32 Number of Primary Nodes in ESX Cluster high availability: 5 Number of hosts in a Distributed Resource Scheduler cluster: 32 Maximum number of processors per virtual machine: 8 Maximum number of processors per host: 160 Maximum number of cores per processor: 12 Maximum number of virtual machines per host: 320 VMFS-3 limits files to 262,144 (218) blocks, which translates to 256 GB for 1 MB block sizes (the default) or up to 2 TB for 8 MB block sizes.However, on a VMFS Boot drive, it is usually very difficult to use anything other than 1 MB Block size With ESXI 5 there has been some changes to these limits Guest system maximum RAM: 1 TB Host system maximum RAM: 2 TB Number of hosts in a high availability cluster: 32 Maximum number of processors per virtual machine: 32 Maximum number of processors per host: 160 Maximum number of cores per processor: 25 Maximum number of virtual machines per host: 512 VMFS-3 is supported and has the same limits as before VMFS-5 however has a max volume size of 64 TB and a max file size of 2 TB - 512 B How much vRAM does a VMware vSphere Hypervisor license provide? vSphere Hypervisor license provides a vRAM entitlement of 32GB per server, regardless of the number of physical processors. vSphere Hypervisor can be used on servers with maximum physical RAM capacity of 32GB. On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Sanders, Arbin D asand...@nccu.edu (mailto:asand...@nccu.edu) wrote: Alexander, What if I use the paid version of vSphere5? And I have 96 GB of memory? Could I get more than 20 VMs? 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: Alexander Patterson [mailto:alexander.patter...@csueastbay.edu] Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 5:17 PM To: vcl-...@incubator.apache.org (mailto:vcl-...@incubator.apache.org) Cc: vcl-user@incubator.apache.org (mailto:vcl-user@incubator.apache.org) Subject: Re: Max Number of VMs per Host Hello, ESXI 5 is limit by licenses with the amount of ram you can run on each machine. The 8 GB vRAM limit is for the upcoming 5.0 free Hypervisor, the 4.x version had no such memory limits. VM makes you pay now if you want to use X amount of ram per host with the upcoming version. Making 4.1 I Free Version a much more attractive option to go with We have each of our blades running ESXI 4.1 with 16 Cores and 48 GB of ram and we have 20
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-user@incubator.apache.org (mailto:vcl-user@incubator.apache.org) vcl-user@incubator.apache.org (mailto:vcl-user@incubator.apache.org), 'vcl-...@incubator.apache.org (mailto:vcl-...@incubator.apache.org)' vcl-...@incubator.apache.org (mailto:vcl-...@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-user@incubator.apache.org (mailto:vcl-user@incubator.apache.org) vcl-user@incubator.apache.org (mailto:vcl-user@incubator.apache.org) Date: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 3:53 PM To: 'vcl-...@incubator.apache.org (mailto:'vcl-...@incubator.apache.org)' vcl-...@incubator.apache.org (mailto:vcl-...@incubator.apache.org), 'vcl-user@incubator.apache.org (mailto:'vcl-user@incubator.apache.org)' vcl-user@incubator.apache.org (mailto:vcl-user@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: Max Number of VMs per Host
This link may be helpful http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_UScmd=displayKCexternalId=2000935 On May 24, 2012, at 5:32 PM, Alexander Patterson alexander.patter...@csueastbay.edu wrote: I'm not sure from what I have been reading, might want to contact your VMware Rep and see what they can do if you plan on upgrading to 5. WIth ESXI 4.1 Infrastructure limitations Some limitations in ESX Server 4 may constrain the design of data centers: Guest system maximum RAM: 255 GB Host system maximum RAM: 1 TB[ Number of hosts in a high availability cluster: 32 Number of Primary Nodes in ESX Cluster high availability: 5 Number of hosts in a Distributed Resource Scheduler cluster: 32 Maximum number of processors per virtual machine: 8 Maximum number of processors per host: 160 Maximum number of cores per processor: 12 Maximum number of virtual machines per host: 320 VMFS-3 limits files to 262,144 (218) blocks, which translates to 256 GB for 1 MB block sizes (the default) or up to 2 TB for 8 MB block sizes.However, on a VMFS Boot drive, it is usually very difficult to use anything other than 1 MB Block size With ESXI 5 there has been some changes to these limits Guest system maximum RAM: 1 TB Host system maximum RAM: 2 TB Number of hosts in a high availability cluster: 32 Maximum number of processors per virtual machine: 32 Maximum number of processors per host: 160 Maximum number of cores per processor: 25 Maximum number of virtual machines per host: 512 VMFS-3 is supported and has the same limits as before VMFS-5 however has a max volume size of 64 TB and a max file size of 2 TB - 512 B How much vRAM does a VMware vSphere Hypervisor license provide? vSphere Hypervisor license provides a vRAM entitlement of 32GB per server, regardless of the number of physical processors. vSphere Hypervisor can be used on servers with maximum physical RAM capacity of 32GB. On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Sanders, Arbin D asand...@nccu.edu wrote: Alexander, What if I use the paid version of vSphere5? And I have 96 GB of memory? Could I get more than 20 VMs? 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: Alexander Patterson [mailto:alexander.patter...@csueastbay.edu] Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 5:17 PM To: vcl-...@incubator.apache.org Cc: vcl-user@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Max Number of VMs per Host Hello, ESXI 5 is limit by licenses with the amount of ram you can run on each machine. The 8 GB vRAM limit is for the upcoming 5.0 free Hypervisor, the 4.x version had no such memory limits. VM makes you pay now if you want to use X amount of ram per host with the upcoming version. Making 4.1 I Free Version a much more attractive option to go with We have each of our blades running ESXI 4.1 with 16 Cores and 48 GB of ram and we have 20 VM's per blade but we give 1.5 GB of ram to each VM. More info here http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_UScmd=displayKCexternalId=1014006 -Alex On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Sanders, Arbin D asand...@nccu.edu wrote: I am planning on using a free version of vSphere 5 depending on the how many VMs I can get. I would like to get 50 VMs per host. 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. From: Dmitri Chebotarov [mailto:dcheb...@gmu.edu] Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 12:01 PM To: vcl-...@incubator.apache.org Cc: vcl-user@incubator.apache.org Subject: 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
Re: Update vmware-tools on many base images ?
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 (mailto: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
Re: Apache VCL Ready to Graduate
+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 10, 2012 at 11:01 , Andy Kurth wrote: This vote is to determine if the Apache VCL community believes the project is ready to graduate from the incubator to a top level project. Everyone in the community is encouraged to vote. Please reply expressing one of the following: +1 : yes, Apache VCL is ready to graduate to a top level project 0 : ambivalent -1 : no, Apache VCL is not ready to graduate to a top level project This vote will be closed on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 at 5:00 pm EST. If this vote passes, the community will draft a board resolution and present it to the IPMC. Thank You, Andy Kurth
Re: Graduation
Hi, May I ask what are the benefits of graduation for VCL? How does graduation change the way the VCL is used? I apologize if these are trivial questions. 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 Monday, May 7, 2012 at 16:39 , Kevan Miller wrote: On May 7, 2012, at 3:53 PM, Alexander Patterson wrote: I would love to see 2.3 to graduate :) I will enjoy many of the bug fixes Thanks Alexander. Minor point - a 2.3 release is orthogonal to the graduation process. A 2.3 release can happen before or after graduation… There's a 'status of 2.3 release' thread on the vcl-dev list. You're more than welcome to voice your 2.3 desires, there... --kevan
VCL 2.3
Hi I've upgraded from 2.2.1 to 2.3. Web and management node seems to be working OK - vcld communicated with the database and front-end displays right information. For some reason after the upgrade I cannot communicate with any of vmhosts. It seems like VCL ignoring vcl.key and try to login with username/password: ... |14100|427:419|reload| 2012-05-01 16:22:04|14100|427:419|reload|OS.pm:(eval)(1974)|unable to connect to VMHOST-1, SSH is requesting a password but password authentication is not implemented, password is not configured, output: |14100|427:419|reload| Password: … Is it normal and I need to configure username/password, or am I missing something in VCL 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
Win 7 reservations sometimes fails with DCHP error
Hi
I'm looking for some help on this strangle problem.
We are testing Win 7 images on VCL system and sometimes reservation would fail
with this error (below).
It only happens sometimes for different Win7 images.
There is no pattern to the problem.
For some reason Win 7 cannot obtain IP address from DHCP during reservation.
But after I get this error and check on the image - it has valid public IP
address.
In attempt to cure it I have added a patch to Windows.pm module to issue
'ipconfig /release' before 'ipconfig /renew'. I've tested code and it runs OK,
but it's not in production yet. Before patch goes to production I would like to
ask if someone has/had the same issue with Win 7 images.
The error message below. Thank you for your help.
--
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
Forwarded message:
From: r...@www.vcl.gmu.edu
Date: Thursday, April 19, 2012 3:56:50
Subject: PROBLEM --
9141:9049|new|State.pm|vmguest-vcl12gt;BC3-4|vmwarewin7-Windows732bitSPSS19creating64-v5|sthomp17
reservation failed on vmguest-vcl12: failed to update private IP address
time: 2012-04-19 15:56:27
caller: State.pm:reservation_failed(213)
( 0) State.pm, reservation_failed (line: 213)
(-1) new.pm, reserve_computer (line: 894)
(-2) new.pm, process (line: 363)
(-3) vcld, make_new_child (line: 568)
(-4) vcld, main (line: 346)
management node: www.vcl.gmu.edu (http://www.vcl.gmu.edu)
reservation PID: 1191
parent vcld PID: 30919
request ID: 9141
reservation ID: 9049
request state/laststate: new/new
request start time: 2012-04-19 15:45:00
request end time: 2012-04-19 20:00:00
for imaging: no
log ID: 10048
computer: vmguest-vcl12
computer id: 25
computer type: virtualmachine
computer eth0 MAC address: 00:50:56:03:51:1c
computer eth1 MAC address: 00:50:56:03:51:1d
computer private IP address: 10.3.6.48
computer public IP address: 129.174.25.26
computer in block allocation: no
provisioning module: VCL::Module::Provisioning::VMware::VMware
vm host: BC3-4
vm host ID: 2
vm host computer ID: 8
vm profile: VMware ESX - network storage
vm profile VM path: /vmfs/volumes/Running-Images
vm profile repository path: 0
vm profile datastore path: /vmfs/volumes/Image-Library/baseprod
vm profile disk type: networkdisk
image: vmwarewin7-Windows732bitSPSS19creating64-v5
image display name: Windows 7 32bit: SPSS 19.0.0
image ID: 64
image revision ID: 109
image size: 61440 MB
use Sysprep: yes
root access: yes
image owner ID: 13
image owner affiliation: GMUGuest
image revision date created: 2012-03-13 10:42:37
image revision production: yes
OS module: VCL::Module::OS::Windows::Version_6::7
image revision comments: Created Default profile
user: sthomp17
user name: Steele B Thompson
user ID: 1601
user affiliation: Mason
RECENT LOG ENTRIES FOR THIS PROCESS:
2012-04-19 15:55:39|1191|9141:9049|new|utils.pm:run_command(9001)|$? is set
to -1, setting exit status to 0, Perl bug likely encountered
2012-04-19
15:55:47|1191|9141:9049|new|OS.pm:is_ssh_responding(401)|vmguest-vcl12 is
responding to SSH, port 22: open, port 24: closed
2012-04-19 15:55:47|1191|9141:9049|new|VMware.pm:node_status(969)|VM
vmguest-vcl12 is responding to SSH
2012-04-19
15:55:53|1191|9141:9049|new|OS.pm:get_currentimage_txt_contents(157)|retrieved
currentimage.txt contents from vmguest-vcl12
2012-04-19
15:55:53|1191|9141:9049|new|OS.pm:get_currentimage_txt_contents(169)|found 8
lines in currentimage.txt on vmguest-vcl12
2012-04-19
15:55:53|1191|9141:9049|new|OS.pm:get_current_image_name(197)|retrieved
currentimage.txt contents from vmguest-vcl12
2012-04-19 15:55:53|1191|9141:9049|new|OS.pm:get_current_image_name(212)|name
of image currently loaded on vmguest-vcl12:
vmwarewin7-Windows732bitSPSS19creating64-v5
2012-04-19
15:55:53|1191|9141:9049|new|VMware.pm:node_status(990)|currentimage.txt image
(vmwarewin7-Windows732bitSPSS19creating64-v5) matches requested image name
(vmwarewin7-Windows732bitSPSS19creating64-v5) on VM vmguest-vcl12
2012-04-19
15:55:58|1191|9141:9049|new|OS.pm:get_vcld_post_load_status(697)|vcld post
load tasks have run on vmguest-vcl12: vcld_post_load=success (Thu Apr 19
11:54:08 2012)
2012-04-19 15:55:58|1191|9141:9049|new|VMware.pm:node_status(1051)|OS module
post_load tasks have been completed on VM vmguest-vcl12
2012-04-19 15:55:58|1191|9141:9049|new|new.pm:reload_image(475)|node_status
returned a hash reference
2012-04-19 15:55:58|1191|9141:9049|new|new.pm:reload_image(480)|node_status
hash reference contains key {status}=READY
2012-04-19 15:55:58|1191|9141:9049|new|new.pm:reload_image
Re: Windows 7 and DHCP
Hi I have the same issue with DHCP, which seems to only affect Win 7 (32 and 64). Linux and XP work OK. I've disabled dhcp broadcast flag (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928233) on both private and public interface on Win 7 image. Since then I get a lot less DHCP errors on Win 7 reservations, but still get few once in a while. Looking at my dhcpd logs files it seems like Win 7 doesn't not accept DHCPOFFER - I see multiple requests from Win 7, but it never gets IP address. Even when I manually run ipconfig /release, /renew. Where is your DHCP server located? Is it on the same subnet/broadcast domain or you have DHCP Relay agent on your subnet to communicate with DHCP 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 On Monday, April 16, 2012 at 12:33 , Mike Haudenschild wrote: Hi Adam, Not to jump to the goofy, but could the Windows firewall be blocking it? Also, if you hand-assign an appropriate IP (disable DHCP on the adapter) can Windows communicate properly on the interface? Regards, Mike -- Mike Haudenschild Education Systems Manager Longsight Group (740) 599-5005 x809 m...@longsight.com (mailto:m...@longsight.com) www.longsight.com (http://www.longsight.com) On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 11:52, Hechler, Adam hec...@rpi.edu (mailto:hec...@rpi.edu) wrote: Hi, We’re having a similar issue that’s been noted on the list before but I can’t seem to find if it was ever resolved. Here’s a link to the archives where it was discussed. http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-vcl-user/201104.mbox/%3C4DB59638.5000609%40ncsu.edu%3E Anyway, I have a Windows 7 base image (not captured yet). Both network interfaces are set to DHCP. The public interface successfully grabs an IP address but the private interface does not. All it does is assign on auto-configuration address (169.254.x.x). We’ve tried the recommendation in the email message I linked to. Here’s what I see in the messages log: (note: I’ve changed the actual IP address offered to x.x.x.x – a real IP was offered). Apr 16 11:39:45 vclserver dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:50:56:1a:01:11 via vmnet1 Apr 16 11:39:45 vclserver dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on x.x.x.x to 00:50:56:1a:01:11 via vmnet1 Apr 16 11:39:48 vclserver dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:50:56:1a:01:11 via vmnet1 Apr 16 11:39:48 vclserver dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on x.x.x.x to 00:50:56:1a:01:11 via vmnet1 Apr 16 11:39:56 vclserver dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:50:56:1a:01:11 via vmnet1 Apr 16 11:39:56 vclserver dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on x.x.x.x to 00:50:56:1a:01:11 via vmnet1 Apr 16 11:40:11 vclserver dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:50:56:1a:01:11 via vmnet1 Apr 16 11:40:11 vclserver dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on x.x.x.x to 00:50:56:1a:01:11 via vmnet1 Apr 16 11:40:44 vclserver dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:50:56:1a:01:11 via vmnet1 Apr 16 11:40:44 vclserver dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on x.x.x.x to 00:50:56:1a:01:11 via vmnet1 Apr 16 11:40:48 vclserver dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:50:56:1a:01:11 via vmnet1 Apr 16 11:40:48 vclserver dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on x.x.x.x to 00:50:56:1a:01:11 via vmnet1 Apr 16 11:40:56 vclserver dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:50:56:1a:01:11 via vmnet1 Apr 16 11:40:56 vclserver dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on x.x.x.x to 00:50:56:1a:01:11 via vmnet1 Apr 16 11:41:12 vclserver dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:50:56:1a:01:11 via vmnet1 Apr 16 11:41:12 vclserver dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on x.x.x.x to 00:50:56:1a:01:11 via vmnet1 Anything else I should be looking at? Thanks, Adam Hechler Senior Analyst / PC Systems Administrator hec...@rpi.edu (mailto:hec...@rpi.edu) (860) 548-2446 (tel:%28860%29%20548-2446) Rensselaer at Hartford
available computers
Hi, All I found that sometimes there is a 'disconnect' between information in SQL database and actual state of 'available' computers. If VCL has a bunch of availabe computers preloaded with an image and I then update that image (new image revision), computers are not automatically reloaded with newer image revision. New reservation will have new image revision, but those available computer will still have older image revision and it would be reloaded only if a user makes reservation. At that time it will take longer to load (ie. ~10min vs 1min for preloaded available computer). Also in cases when I need to reboot ESXi hosts, all the VMs are not loaded automatically. In this case database lists those VMs as available, but they are off-line. I would like to share the small tool (a .pl script), which syncs available computers with actual state of computers (VMs). I've used peaces of code from utils.php to write it. The script creates reload requests for all available computers using the current image and latest image revision. VCLD then caries out requests and reloads computers which are either have older image revision or cannot be contacted via SSH (ie. after ESXi reboot). I plan to run the script weekly via cron on vcld server to make sure all is in sync, as well as after image updates. I've tested it and it works fine. .pl is attached. (I have hardcoded $managementnodeid value in reloadComputer(). Yours could be different) 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 imageReload.pl Description: Binary data
Re: Thin client with VCL
Thank you for sharing the information - these are all good points. 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, April 10, 2012 at 11:26 , Henry Schaffer wrote: Michael's point about testing is excellent! :-) Other considerations include comparing prices - the price of desktop computer has decreased greatly in the past few years, narrowing the price difference from thin clients. Also consider how you might want to use the desktop/local machines. The VCL is a desktop augmentation setup - so you likely want to use the local machines for web surfing, e-mail, perhaps word processing ..., what else. That decision impacts the price of the thin client. --henry schaffer On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Michael Jinks mji...@uchicago.edu (mailto:mji...@uchicago.edu) wrote: Several years ago, we put thin clients (Sun Ray) in all our public computing spaces and computer-equipped classrooms. They work great for most things, and they do indeed save lots of expense and hassle. We're now in the process of going back to PC's, though. There are several reasons, but the one that might apply to other sites is remote display of graphically-intensive applications. 3D rendering is the obvious one, but there are also a few legacy (DOS-era) scientific graphing packages that don't play well with a network-connected display, and the accumulated latency during real-time graphing appears to the user as a drastic slowdown in performance. So, test all your apps thoroughly before you commit. On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 09:41:11AM -0400, Dmitri Chebotarov wrote: Hi All, Is anyone here is using a thin client with VCL? I.e. Dell FX100 or similar? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_client). This could work well with VCL, since most of thin boxes support RDP. Interesting to see how a thin client compares to a regular PC in classroom environment. Seems like this would be a better option - less expensive, less admin overhead, more secure, and with all the benefits of VCL... 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 -- Michael Jinks :: mji...@uchicago.edu (mailto:mji...@uchicago.edu) :: 773-469-9688 University of Chicago IT Services
Thin client with VCL
Hi All, Is anyone here is using a thin client with VCL? I.e. Dell FX100 or similar? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_client). This could work well with VCL, since most of thin boxes support RDP. Interesting to see how a thin client compares to a regular PC in classroom environment. Seems like this would be a better option - less expensive, less admin overhead, more secure, and with all the benefits of VCL... 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
Re: ESXi 4.1 image for VCL reservation
I'm not looking for nested hypervisors - this would work for someone who wants to play/study ESXi server. But even in this case VCL needs a module to handle ESXi reservation - this step would fail for nested esxi as well… How would I add/use/load a new pm module for ESXi reservation? I plan to use ESXi image along with a Windows sub-image with vSphere client, so ESXi server won't need public IP address in this case… I only need to address reservation steps (ie. get IP, add user, etc.) - xCAT/VCL already handles ESXi install process. 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 Thursday, March 29, 2012 at 14:04 , Mike Haudenschild wrote: There is definitely a performance penalty for running ESXi as a guest OS. I don't think the hardware virtualization features of the CPU can be passed on to an ESXi guest, which also means no 64-bit guests inside the ESXi guest. Suggest reading the notes on this blog: http://www.vcritical.com/2009/05/vmware-esx-4-can-even-virtualize-itself/ Regards, Mike On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 13:59, Aaron Peeler aaron_pee...@ncsu.edu (mailto:aaron_pee...@ncsu.edu) wrote: Definitely doable. Also might be worth doing it within a ESXi server. Nested hypervisor - possibly a bit better control on which networks are visible. With the connection methods in the next release, you could define vsphere client as the connection method. Aaron P. On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Dmitri Chebotarov dcheb...@gmu.edu (mailto:dcheb...@gmu.edu) wrote: Hi, All Is it posible to add ESXi 4.1 image to VCL, so users can make reservation for ESXi 4.1 server? May be someone else already has it working…. May be there is separate module for ESXi support? I have configured xCAT/VCL and I'm able to reload a blade with ESXi 4.1 using kickstart script via Manage Computers. But when a user makes reservation for ESXi 4.1 - it fails. So far it fails for two reasons - no Public interface and cannot create user on ESXi hosts. VCL is using Linux.pm module and ESXi doesn't support it. Thanks. -- Dmitri Chebotarov Virtual Computing Lab Systems Engineer, TSD - Ent Servers Messaging 223 Aquia Building, Ffx, MSN: 1B5 Phone: (703) 993-6175 (tel:%28703%29%20993-6175) Fax: (703) 993-3404 (tel:%28703%29%20993-3404) -- Aaron Peeler Program Manager Virtual Computing Lab NC State University 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.
Re: ESXi 4.1 image for VCL reservation
Andy Could I extend existing ESXi.pm module at /usr/local/vcl/lib/VCL/Module/OS/Linux/ESXi.pm? Everyhing you described seems to be already in place - entry for esxi OS (OSid), module name/path. Thanks. -- Dmitri Chebotarov On Thursday, March 29, 2012 at 14:56 , Andy Kurth wrote: You could create an ESXi.pm OS module. It would inherit from Linux.pm since some of the Linux subroutines will work under ESXi. The module would reside at: lib/VCL/Module/OS/Linux/ESXi.pm Entries would have to be added to the module and OS tables in the database. Set your image.OSid value to the new value you enter in the OS table. Some of the subroutines in Linux.pm already work as you have noticed. I changed a few of them a while back to work with ESXi of them to which are called by the VMware.pm provisioning module when SSH is used to control the VM host. For the ones which don't work, you would define subroutines in ESXi.pm to override the ones in Linux.pm or OS.pm such as create_user. For the networking problems, you would probably define a post_load subroutine in ESXi.pm which performs operations necessary to configure the virtual switches appropriately such as running esxcfg-vswitch and esxcfg-vmknic. This would be very useful for us at NCSU. I would be happy to help get this added. -Andy On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Dmitri Chebotarov dcheb...@gmu.edu (mailto:dcheb...@gmu.edu) wrote: I'm not looking for nested hypervisors - this would work for someone who wants to play/study ESXi server. But even in this case VCL needs a module to handle ESXi reservation - this step would fail for nested esxi as well… How would I add/use/load a new pm module for ESXi reservation? I plan to use ESXi image along with a Windows sub-image with vSphere client, so ESXi server won't need public IP address in this case… I only need to address reservation steps (ie. get IP, add user, etc.) - xCAT/VCL already handles ESXi install process. 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 Thursday, March 29, 2012 at 14:04 , Mike Haudenschild wrote: There is definitely a performance penalty for running ESXi as a guest OS. I don't think the hardware virtualization features of the CPU can be passed on to an ESXi guest, which also means no 64-bit guests inside the ESXi guest. Suggest reading the notes on this blog: http://www.vcritical.com/2009/05/vmware-esx-4-can-even-virtualize-itself/ Regards, Mike On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 13:59, Aaron Peeler aaron_pee...@ncsu.edu (mailto:aaron_pee...@ncsu.edu) wrote: Definitely doable. Also might be worth doing it within a ESXi server. Nested hypervisor - possibly a bit better control on which networks are visible. With the connection methods in the next release, you could define vsphere client as the connection method. Aaron P. On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Dmitri Chebotarov dcheb...@gmu.edu (mailto:dcheb...@gmu.edu) wrote: Hi, All Is it posible to add ESXi 4.1 image to VCL, so users can make reservation for ESXi 4.1 server? May be someone else already has it working…. May be there is separate module for ESXi support? I have configured xCAT/VCL and I'm able to reload a blade with ESXi 4.1 using kickstart script via Manage Computers. But when a user makes reservation for ESXi 4.1 - it fails. So far it fails for two reasons - no Public interface and cannot create user on ESXi hosts. VCL is using Linux.pm module and ESXi doesn't support it. 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 -- Aaron Peeler Program Manager Virtual Computing Lab NC State University 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.
Wndows pagefile.sys settings
Hi, All I'm using Windows 7 Ent image with VCL/xCAT on a blade with 48GB of memory. Before capturing the image I set page file to 2GB, once capture is done, the new reservation ends up with 48GB page file. This leave little space left to install new applications. I found that Windows.pm calls disable_pagefile() on line 474 during image capture. Would it be OK to disable this function? 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: Wndows pagefile.sys settings
James Yes, I have changed the setting for pagefile. But it resets to default after I capture image and make reservation. I've also commented disable_pagefile() in Windows.pm (and restarted vcld), but it doesn't help. New image still has default pagefile setting. Is there another place in the code where I could stop VCL from changing pagefile settings? 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 Wednesday, March 28, 2012 at 16:19 , James O'Dell wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Have you tried disabling/reducing the page file before making the image? Control Panel System and Security System Click to open System. In the left pane, click Advanced system settings. If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation. On the Advanced tab, under Performance, click Settings. Click the Advanced tab, and then, under Virtual memory, click Change. Clear the Automatically manage paging file size for all drives check box. Under Drive [Volume Label], click the drive that contains the paging file you want to change. Click Custom size, type a new size in megabytes in the Initial size (MB) or Maximum size (MB) box, click Set, and then click OK. This should make a registry change, that hopefully prevents Windows from Automatically manage paging file size for all drives Automatically typically makes the page file the same as the available ram. __Jim On 3/28/2012 12:57 PM, Dmitri Chebotarov wrote: Hi, All I'm using Windows 7 Ent image with VCL/xCAT on a blade with 48GB of memory. Before capturing the image I set page file to 2GB, once capture is done, the new reservation ends up with 48GB page file. This leave little space left to install new applications. I found that Windows.pm calls disable_pagefile() on line 474 during image capture. Would it be OK to disable this function? 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 - -- Jim O'Dell Network Analyst California State University Fullerton Email: jod...@fullerton.edu (mailto:jod...@fullerton.edu) Phone: (657) 278-2256 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk9zclwACgkQREVHAOnXPYSCYgCglS3umUQONsWlNm604P/Z20Yk ag0An2ul+tgpwh8ONuQZQp/YaoXxmQ/i =BZaZ -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Full desktop Linux images?
Mike,
xrdp works well on Linux - http://www.xrdp.org/.
We are using it for Linux reservations with no issues (please use latest
version of xrdp as there are some issues with RDP 6.1 for older xrdp).
You will need to modify following files/code to make RDP links available for a
Linux reservation. Here is diff:
$ diff requests.php ~/apache-VCL-2.2.1-incubating/web/.ht-inc/requests.php
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print strongbigNOTE:/big You may now use the
Windows Remote ;
print Desktop Connection to connect to this computer.
You may also use an ;
# print a
href=\http://vcl.ncsu.edu/help/connecting-vcl/how-connect-vcl#sshx\;;
print ssh client/a./strong\n;
/*if(eregi(windows, $_SERVER[HTTP_USER_AGENT])) {
---
print strongbigNOTE:/big You cannot use the
Windows Remote ;
print Desktop Connection to connect to this computer.
You must use an ;
print ssh client./strong\n;
/*if(preg_match(/windows/i,
$_SERVER[HTTP_USER_AGENT])) {
2284d2282
2286,2307d2283
# Add automatic RDP file to Linux Selection
print For automatic connection, you can download an
RDP file that can ;
print be opened by the Remote Desktop Connection
program.brbr\n;
print table summary=\\\n;
print TR\n;
print TD\n;
print FORM action=\ . BASEURL . SCRIPT .
\ method=post\n;
$cdata = array('requestid' = $requestid,
'resid' =
$requestData['reservations'][0]['reservationid']);
$expire = datetimeToUnix($requestData['end']) -
datetimeToUnix($requestData['start']) + 1800;
# reservation time plus 30 min
$cont = addContinuationsEntry('sendRDPfile', $cdata,
$expire);
print INPUT type=hidden name=continuation
value=\$cont\\n;
print INPUT type=submit value=\Get RDP
File\\n;
print /FORM\n;
print /TD\n;
print TDa
href=\http://vcl.ncsu.edu/help/connecting-vcl/;;
print remote-desktop/what-rdp-file\What is an RDP
file?/a/TD\n;
print /TR\n;
print /table\n;
2309d2284
2395,2396d2369
Also, modify utils.pm on management node to add a check for RDP connection for
Linux images.
By default VCLd only checks for SSH connected users for Linux reservation and
you will get warning emails.
$ diff utils.pm ~/apache-VCL-2.2.1-incubating/managementnode/lib/VCL/utils.pm
1690,1693c1690
#if ($line =~
/tcp\s+([0-9]*)\s+([0-9]*)\s($ipaddress:22)\s+([.0-9]*):([0-9]*)(.*)(ESTABLISHED)/)
{
# the line replaced with two
checks - for port 22 or port 3389,
if ( ($line =~
/tcp\s+([0-9]*)\s+([0-9]*)\s($ipaddress:22)\s+([.0-9]*):([0-9]*)(.*)(ESTABLISHED)/)
||
($line =~
/tcp\s+([0-9]*)\s+([0-9]*)\s($ipaddress:3389)\s+([.0-9]*):([0-9]*)(.*)(ESTABLISHED)/)
) {
---
if ($line =~
/tcp\s+([0-9]*)\s+([0-9]*)\s($ipaddress:22)\s+([.0-9]*):([0-9]*)(.*)(ESTABLISHED)/)
{
Thanks.
On Mar 19, 2012, at 14:18 , Mike Haudenschild wrote:
Good afternoon, VCL users --
I was curious if anyone else is running full Linux desktops (e.g. with GNOME)
with VCL. Specifically, is there an implemented method for connecting to the
GUI (i.e. as RDP is used with Windows), or are Linux images restricted only
to the shell? Any tips/tricks?
Many thanks,
Mike
--
Mike Haudenschild
Education Systems Manager
Longsight Group
(740) 599-5005 x809
m...@longsight.com
www.longsight.com
--
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: Xcat image capture issues
Evelio What type of hardware d6100a is? If it doesn't have IPMI enabled motherboard or IPMI card, r* commands may not work. By the name I would guess it's Latitude d610... Try rebooting manually just to test xCAT/PXE. Thanks. On Mar 15, 2012, at 12:03 , Evelio Quiros wrote: Hello, Yes, both listener.py and rootimg.gz are both located at /install/image/x86/installer_files/ But NOWHERE on the documentation page does it mention a symlink between x86_64 and x86. Ok, I added the symlinks in both locations, and it did seem to accept it: nodeset d6100a image d6100a: image image-x86_64-rh5image-rh66-v0 Which created this file in /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Mar 15 11:36 0A19 - d6100a cat d6100a #image image-x86_64-rh5image-rh66-v0 DEFAULT xCAT LABEL xCAT KERNEL xcat/image/x86_64/vmlinuz APPEND initrd=xcat/image/x86_64/initrd.img imgurl=http://10.0.0.3//install/image/x86_64/installer_files/rootimg.gz image=/install/image/x86_64/rh5image-rh66-v0.img blocks=512 action=save installnic=eth0 reboot noipv6 IPAPPEND 2 I did a tabedit to add the nodetype.supportedarchs. tabdump nodetype #node,os,arch,profile,provmethod,supportedarchs,nodetype,comments,disable compute,rh6.0,x86_64,compute,,,osi,, d6100a,image,x86,rh5image-rh66-v0,image,x86,x86_64,,, However, when I do this: rpower d6100a reset I get this: d6100a: Error: timeout So, I guess I must be missing something that tells xCAT where the machine is, and how to reach it. Al Q On 3/15/12 11:05 AM, Dmitri Chebotarov dcheb...@gmu.edu wrote: Evelio Could you please check that you have these files/folders as well? /install/image/x86/installer_files/listener.py /install/image/x86/installer_files/rootimg.gz Also, can you check that there are symlinks for x86 or x86_64 in /install/image/ and /tftpboot/xcat/image/, ie: $ ls -l x86 x86_64 - x86 Thanks. On Mar 15, 2012, at 9:56 , Evelio Quiros wrote: Thanks Dmitri, In following this article, I get to the bottom of the page, where I put in the 3 files needed for a stateless image. I place the 3 files in the located indicated, and when I run nodeset d6100a image I get this: Error: vmlinuz and initrd.img not found at /tftpboot/xcat/image/x86_64 Error: Some nodes failed to set up image resources, aborting But vmlinuz and initrd.img are at /tftpboot/xcat/image/x86_64 Is there something else that needs to happen first ? Also, the last step talks about NFS servers for the image store. Are these required ? Thanks for all your help, Al Quiros On 3/14/12 4:05 PM, Dmitri Chebotarov 4dim...@gmail.com wrote: Evelio Please follow this article to add support for 'image' and 'install' : https://cwiki.apache.org/VCL/adding-support-for-partimage-and-partimage- ng -to-xcat-2x-unofficial.html Thanks. -- Dmitri Chebotarov On Wednesday, March 14, 2012 at 15:37 , Evelio Quiros wrote: Hello again, Dimitri, thanks for the advice. I have a question about these commands. Below, you wrote nodeset d6100a image, But there is no image argument for nodeset. Here is the man page: nodeset [-h|--help|-v|--version] nodeset noderange [install|shell|boot|runcmd=bmcsetup|netboot|iscsiboot|osimage=imagenam e |s tatelite] When I try the command as-is, I get this: nodeset d6100a image d6100a: Error: Unable to identify plugin for this command, check relevant tables: nodetype.os Error: Some nodes failed to set up image resources, aborting I have done tabdump on the various tables, and done tabedit to modify them to my environment. I know this is not an xCAT list, but your guidance would be appreciated. Thanks, Al Quiros On 3/13/12 4:45 PM, Dmitri Chebotarov dcheb...@gmu.edu (mailto:dcheb...@gmu.edu) wrote: Evelio, You should be able to capture image via xCAT before you can use VCL/xCAT. To capture image via xCAT: nodech d6100a nodetype.os=image nodetype.profile=rh5image-rh66-v0 nodeset d6100a image - this will create PXEboot config file for d6100a: cat /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/d6100a-PXE-if-mac #image rh5image-rh66-v0 DEFAULT xCAT LABEL xCAT KERNEL xcat/image/x86_64/vmlinuz APPEND initrd=xcat/image/x86_64/initrd.img imgurl=http://xcat-master/install/image/x86_64/installer_files/rootimg. gz image=/install/image/x86_64/rh5image-rh66-v0.img blocks=512 action=save installnic=eth0 reboot noipv6 IPAPPEND 2 'tabdump nodetype' should look similar to this - note that arch is x86: #node,os,arch,profile,provmethod,supportedarchs,nodetype,comments,disab le ... d6100a,image,x86,rh5image-rh66-v0,image,x86,x86_64,,, ... Then do 'rpower d6100a reset'. This will restart d6100a and when node boots over PXE it will boot into http://xcat-master/install/image/x86_64/installer_files/rootimg.gz and, given that image works fine and maps NFS store OK, it dump hd image
Re: Xcat image capture issues
Evelio Could you please check that you have these files/folders as well? /install/image/x86/installer_files/listener.py /install/image/x86/installer_files/rootimg.gz Also, can you check that there are symlinks for x86 or x86_64 in /install/image/ and /tftpboot/xcat/image/, ie: $ ls -l x86 x86_64 - x86 Thanks. On Mar 15, 2012, at 9:56 , Evelio Quiros wrote: Thanks Dmitri, In following this article, I get to the bottom of the page, where I put in the 3 files needed for a stateless image. I place the 3 files in the located indicated, and when I run nodeset d6100a image I get this: Error: vmlinuz and initrd.img not found at /tftpboot/xcat/image/x86_64 Error: Some nodes failed to set up image resources, aborting But vmlinuz and initrd.img are at /tftpboot/xcat/image/x86_64 Is there something else that needs to happen first ? Also, the last step talks about NFS servers for the image store. Are these required ? Thanks for all your help, Al Quiros On 3/14/12 4:05 PM, Dmitri Chebotarov 4dim...@gmail.com wrote: Evelio Please follow this article to add support for 'image' and 'install' : https://cwiki.apache.org/VCL/adding-support-for-partimage-and-partimage-ng -to-xcat-2x-unofficial.html Thanks. -- Dmitri Chebotarov On Wednesday, March 14, 2012 at 15:37 , Evelio Quiros wrote: Hello again, Dimitri, thanks for the advice. I have a question about these commands. Below, you wrote nodeset d6100a image, But there is no image argument for nodeset. Here is the man page: nodeset [-h|--help|-v|--version] nodeset noderange [install|shell|boot|runcmd=bmcsetup|netboot|iscsiboot|osimage=imagename |s tatelite] When I try the command as-is, I get this: nodeset d6100a image d6100a: Error: Unable to identify plugin for this command, check relevant tables: nodetype.os Error: Some nodes failed to set up image resources, aborting I have done tabdump on the various tables, and done tabedit to modify them to my environment. I know this is not an xCAT list, but your guidance would be appreciated. Thanks, Al Quiros On 3/13/12 4:45 PM, Dmitri Chebotarov dcheb...@gmu.edu (mailto:dcheb...@gmu.edu) wrote: Evelio, You should be able to capture image via xCAT before you can use VCL/xCAT. To capture image via xCAT: nodech d6100a nodetype.os=image nodetype.profile=rh5image-rh66-v0 nodeset d6100a image - this will create PXEboot config file for d6100a: cat /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/d6100a-PXE-if-mac #image rh5image-rh66-v0 DEFAULT xCAT LABEL xCAT KERNEL xcat/image/x86_64/vmlinuz APPEND initrd=xcat/image/x86_64/initrd.img imgurl=http://xcat-master/install/image/x86_64/installer_files/rootimg.gz image=/install/image/x86_64/rh5image-rh66-v0.img blocks=512 action=save installnic=eth0 reboot noipv6 IPAPPEND 2 'tabdump nodetype' should look similar to this - note that arch is x86: #node,os,arch,profile,provmethod,supportedarchs,nodetype,comments,disable ... d6100a,image,x86,rh5image-rh66-v0,image,x86,x86_64,,, ... Then do 'rpower d6100a reset'. This will restart d6100a and when node boots over PXE it will boot into http://xcat-master/install/image/x86_64/installer_files/rootimg.gz and, given that image works fine and maps NFS store OK, it dump hd image to /install/image/x86_64/rh5image-rh66-v0.img . If it's successful then to install from the image: nodeset d6100a install 'tabdump nodetype' should look similar to this - provmethod changes from image to install: #node,os,arch,profile,provmethod,supportedarchs,nodetype,comments,disable ... d6100a,image,x86,rh5image-rh66-v0,install,x86,x86_64,,, ... If these steps work OK, then you can use VCL to capture bare-metal image. VCL uses 'nodeset node image' and 'nodeset node install' commands, so it's good idea to make them work before using VCL. Thanks. On Mar 13, 2012, at 16:11 , Evelio Quiros wrote: Hello Again, After trying again to capture a running image on a bare metal node, I get a failure message: Any ideas ? Al Q Added new image to database: 'rh6' image.name (http://image.name): rh5image-rh66-v0 image.id: 6 imagerevision.id: 6 imagemeta.id: 3 resource.id: 16 - -- - Inserted imaging request to the database: request ID: 1 reservation ID: 1 This process will now display the contents of the vcld.log file if the vcld daemon is running. If you do not see many lines of additional output, exit this process, start the vcld daemon, and monitor the image capture process by running the command: tail -f /var/log/vcld.log | grep '1:1' - -- - 2012-03-13 16:03:34|2012|vcld:main(167)|lastcheckin time updated for management node 1: 2012-03-13 16:03:34 2012-03-13 16:03:39|6899|utils.pm:setup_get_array_choice
Re: Xcat image capture issues
Evelio Please follow this article to add support for 'image' and 'install' : https://cwiki.apache.org/VCL/adding-support-for-partimage-and-partimage-ng-to-xcat-2x-unofficial.html Thanks. -- Dmitri Chebotarov On Wednesday, March 14, 2012 at 15:37 , Evelio Quiros wrote: Hello again, Dimitri, thanks for the advice. I have a question about these commands. Below, you wrote nodeset d6100a image, But there is no image argument for nodeset. Here is the man page: nodeset [-h|--help|-v|--version] nodeset noderange [install|shell|boot|runcmd=bmcsetup|netboot|iscsiboot|osimage=imagename|s tatelite] When I try the command as-is, I get this: nodeset d6100a image d6100a: Error: Unable to identify plugin for this command, check relevant tables: nodetype.os Error: Some nodes failed to set up image resources, aborting I have done tabdump on the various tables, and done tabedit to modify them to my environment. I know this is not an xCAT list, but your guidance would be appreciated. Thanks, Al Quiros On 3/13/12 4:45 PM, Dmitri Chebotarov dcheb...@gmu.edu (mailto:dcheb...@gmu.edu) wrote: Evelio, You should be able to capture image via xCAT before you can use VCL/xCAT. To capture image via xCAT: nodech d6100a nodetype.os=image nodetype.profile=rh5image-rh66-v0 nodeset d6100a image - this will create PXEboot config file for d6100a: cat /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/d6100a-PXE-if-mac #image rh5image-rh66-v0 DEFAULT xCAT LABEL xCAT KERNEL xcat/image/x86_64/vmlinuz APPEND initrd=xcat/image/x86_64/initrd.img imgurl=http://xcat-master/install/image/x86_64/installer_files/rootimg.gz image=/install/image/x86_64/rh5image-rh66-v0.img blocks=512 action=save installnic=eth0 reboot noipv6 IPAPPEND 2 'tabdump nodetype' should look similar to this - note that arch is x86: #node,os,arch,profile,provmethod,supportedarchs,nodetype,comments,disable ... d6100a,image,x86,rh5image-rh66-v0,image,x86,x86_64,,, ... Then do 'rpower d6100a reset'. This will restart d6100a and when node boots over PXE it will boot into http://xcat-master/install/image/x86_64/installer_files/rootimg.gz and, given that image works fine and maps NFS store OK, it dump hd image to /install/image/x86_64/rh5image-rh66-v0.img . If it's successful then to install from the image: nodeset d6100a install 'tabdump nodetype' should look similar to this - provmethod changes from image to install: #node,os,arch,profile,provmethod,supportedarchs,nodetype,comments,disable ... d6100a,image,x86,rh5image-rh66-v0,install,x86,x86_64,,, ... If these steps work OK, then you can use VCL to capture bare-metal image. VCL uses 'nodeset node image' and 'nodeset node install' commands, so it's good idea to make them work before using VCL. Thanks. On Mar 13, 2012, at 16:11 , Evelio Quiros wrote: Hello Again, After trying again to capture a running image on a bare metal node, I get a failure message: Any ideas ? Al Q Added new image to database: 'rh6' image.name (http://image.name): rh5image-rh66-v0 image.id: 6 imagerevision.id: 6 imagemeta.id: 3 resource.id: 16 - -- - Inserted imaging request to the database: request ID: 1 reservation ID: 1 This process will now display the contents of the vcld.log file if the vcld daemon is running. If you do not see many lines of additional output, exit this process, start the vcld daemon, and monitor the image capture process by running the command: tail -f /var/log/vcld.log | grep '1:1' - -- - 2012-03-13 16:03:34|2012|vcld:main(167)|lastcheckin time updated for management node 1: 2012-03-13 16:03:34 2012-03-13 16:03:39|6899|utils.pm:setup_get_array_choice(9947)|choices argument: 2012-03-13 16:03:39|2012|vcld:main(167)|lastcheckin time updated for management node 1: 2012-03-13 16:03:39 2012-03-13 16:03:44|2012|vcld:main(167)|lastcheckin time updated for management node 1: 2012-03-13 16:03:44 2012-03-13 16:03:48|6899|utils.pm:insert_request(8358)|inserted new reload request into request table, request id=1 2012-03-13 16:03:48|6899|utils.pm:insert_request(8389)|inserted new reload request into reservation table, reservation id=1 2012-03-13 16:03:50|2012|vcld:main(167)|lastcheckin time updated for management node 1: 2012-03-13 16:03:49 2012-03-13 16:03:50|2012|1:1|image|utils.pm:reservation_being_processed(8938)|comput er loadlog 'begin' entry does NOT exist for reservation 1 2012-03-13 16:03:50|2012|1:1|image|utils.pm:run_command(9010)|executed command: pgrep -fl 'vcld [0-9]+:1 ', pid: 7004, exit status: 0, output: 2012-03-13 16:03:50|2012|1:1
Re: Xcat image capture issues
:1|image| (-2) Module.pm, create_provisioning_object (line:
423)
|12372|1:1|image| (-3) State.pm, initialize (line: 117)
|12372|1:1|image| (-4) Module.pm, new (line: 207)
|12372|1:1|image| (-5) vcld, make_new_child (line: 564)
|12372|1:1|image| WARNING
|12372|1:1|image| 2012-03-07
14:49:31|12372|1:1|image|Module.pm:create_provisioning_object(431)|provi
s
ioning
object could not be created, returning 0
|12372|1:1|image| ( 0) Module.pm, create_provisioning_object (line:
431)
|12372|1:1|image| (-1) State.pm, initialize (line: 117)
|12372|1:1|image| (-2) Module.pm, new (line: 207)
|12372|1:1|image| (-3) vcld, make_new_child (line: 564)
|12372|1:1|image| (-4) vcld, main (line: 346)
|12372|1:1|image| WARNING
|12372|1:1|image| 2012-03-07
14:49:31|12372|1:1|image|State.pm:initialize(118)|failed to create
provisioning object
|12372|1:1|image| ( 0) State.pm, initialize (line: 118)
|12372|1:1|image| (-1) Module.pm, new (line: 207)
|12372|1:1|image| (-2) vcld, make_new_child (line: 564)
|12372|1:1|image| (-3) vcld, main (line: 346)
2012-03-07 14:49:31|12372|1:1|image|State.pm:DESTROY(829)|VCL::image
destructor called, address: 223a460
2012-03-07
14:49:31|12372|1:1|image|utils.pm:delete_computerloadlog_reservation(674
2
)|removing
computerloadlog entries matching loadstate = begin
2012-03-07
14:49:31|12372|1:1|image|utils.pm:delete_computerloadlog_reservation(678
9
)|deleted
rows from computerloadlog for reservation id=1
2012-03-07 14:49:31|12372|1:1|image|State.pm:DESTROY(848)|number of
database
handles state process created: 1
2012-03-07 14:49:31|12372|1:1|image|State.pm:DESTROY(876)|VCL::image
process
duration: 0 seconds
2012-03-07
14:49:31|12372|1:1|image|DataStructure.pm:get_computer_private_ip_addres
s
(1581)|attempting
to retrieve private IP address for computer: 6100a
2012-03-07
14:49:31|12372|1:1|image|DataStructure.pm:get_computer_private_ip_addres
s
(1585)|retrieved
contents of /etc/hosts on this management node, contains 9 lines
2012-03-07
14:49:31|12372|1:1|image|DataStructure.pm:get_computer_private_ip_addres
s
(1645)|returning
IP address from /etc/hosts file: 10.0.0.25
2012-03-07 14:49:31|12372|1:1|image|utils.pm:getnewdbh(2703)|unable to
use
database handle stored in $ENV{dbh}
2012-03-07 14:49:31|12372|1:1|image|utils.pm:getnewdbh(2760)|database
handle
stored in $ENV{dbh}
2012-03-07
14:49:31|12372|1:1|image|utils.pm:is_inblockrequest(6163)|zero
rows were returned from database select
2012-03-07
14:49:31|12372|1:1|image|DataStructure.pm:get_image_affiliation_name(203
5
)|image
owner id: 1
2012-03-07 14:49:31|12372|1:1|image|utils.pm:getnewdbh(2709)|database
requested (information_schema) does not match handle stored in
$ENV{dbh}
(vcl:localhost)
2012-03-07 14:49:31|12372|1:1|image|utils.pm:getnewdbh(2760)|database
handle
stored in $ENV{dbh}
2012-03-07
14:49:31|12372|1:1|image|DataStructure.pm:retrieve_user_data(1352)|attem
p
ting
to retrieve and store data for user: user.id = '1'
2012-03-07 14:49:31|12372|1:1|image|utils.pm:getnewdbh(2709)|database
requested (vcl) does not match handle stored in $ENV{dbh}
(information_schema:localhost)
2012-03-07 14:49:31|12372|1:1|image|utils.pm:getnewdbh(2760)|database
handle
stored in $ENV{dbh}
2012-03-07
14:49:31|12372|1:1|image|DataStructure.pm:retrieve_user_data(1415)|data
has
been retrieved for user: admin (id: 1)
--
Dmitri Chebotarov
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223 Aquia Building, Ffx, MSN: 1B5
Phone: (703) 993-6175
Fax: (703) 993-3404
Re: VCL and xCat
Mike Thank you. I was missing the record in vcl.resource table. For ESXi 4.1 kickstart I had to change sourcepath value in vcl.os from esxi4.1 to esxi41 for id=38. xCAT2.pm can only get esxi4. (misses part after .) I also had to create couple symlinks for xCAT2.pm to find image folder, but it's working now. Thank you. On Feb 29, 2012, at 16:47 , Waldron, Michael H wrote: Dmitri, I have a script that I run to manually insert an image into the database. It places an entry in the image, imgagerevision, and resource tables. Here is a sample below. Of course you would substitute the proper values for your situation. INSERT INTO `image` (id, `name`, `prettyname`, `ownerid`, `deptid`, `platformid`, `OSid`, `imagemetaid`, `minram`, `minprocnumber`, `minprocspeed`, `minnetwork`, `maxconcurrent`, `reloadtime`, `deleted`, `test`, `lastupdate`, `forcheckout`, `maxinitialtime`, `project`, `size`) VALUES (150, 'vmwarerhels4-base150-v0', 'Base No Apps, RHEL4 32-bit w/AFS (vmware)', 8, 1, 1, 32, NULL, 1024, 1, 0, 10, NULL, 14, 0, 0, NOW(), 1, 0, 'vcl', 1045); INSERT INTO `imagerevision` (`imageid`, `revision`, `userid`, `datecreated`, `deleted`, `production`, `comments`, `imagename`) VALUES (150, 0, 8, NOW(), 0, 1, NULL, 'vmwarerhels4-base150-v0'); INSERT INTO `resource` (`resourcetypeid`, `subid`) VALUES (13, 150); Mike Mike Waldron Systems Specialist ITS Research Computing University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill CB 3420, ITS Manning, Rm 2509 919-962-9778 -Original Message- From: Dmitri Chebotarov [mailto:dcheb...@gmu.edu] Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 4:19 PM To: vcl-user@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: VCL and xCat Mike, Thank you for explanation. How did you add kickstart image to vcl.image table? I've tried adding image by inserting record directly into vcl.image and vcl.imagemeta tables, but this didn't work. vcld --setup only allows partimage type for bare-metal. Thank you. On Feb 29, 2012, at 15:41 , Waldron, Michael H wrote: Dmitri, Yes, VCL supports kickstart installs with xCAT. The column in the image table that corresponds to the install type is OSid. Example: mysql select prettyname, OSid from image where id=235; +---+--+ | prettyname| OSid | +---+--+ | RedHat Enterprise Linux server 5 (KS) | 19 | +---+--+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) mysql select * from OS where id=19; ++---++---+-++--+ | id | name | prettyname | type | installtype | sourcepath | moduleid | ++---++---+-++--+ | 19 | rhel5 | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | linux | kickstart | rhas5 |5 | ++---++---+-++--+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) mysql select * from module where id=5; ++--+-+-++ | id | name | prettyname | description | perlpackage| ++--+-+-++ | 5 | os_linux | Linux OS Module | | VCL::Module::OS::Linux | ++--+-+-++ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) So in this case OS id 19 specifies a RHEL5 kickstart install, the sourcepath where the RHEL5 installation files are under /install/rhas5. The OS entry links to the module table, id 5 which tells it the perl module to use. You need to have the appropriate entries in your OS and module tables specific to your ESXi image. Mike Mike Waldron Systems Specialist ITS Research Computing University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill CB 3420, ITS Manning, Rm 2509 919-962-9778 -Original Message- From: Dmitri Chebotarov [mailto:dcheb...@gmu.edu] Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 3:17 PM To: vcl-user@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: VCL and xCat Hi again, Looks like vcl.os and vcl.osinstalltype tables have 'kickstart' installtype for an image. But I cannot find a way to set image_os_install_type to 'kickstart', it's 'partimage' by default for bare-metal. And there seems to be no column in vcl.image table which corresponds to image_os_install_type. Help! Does VCL support kickstart image install with xCAT module? Thank you. On Feb 29, 2012, at 11:14 , Dmitri Chebotarov wrote: Hi Is there a way to use kickstart script install with VCL/xCAT? xCAT2.pm code mentions use of templates, but I cannot find a way how to make use of them. I have working ESXi 4.1 template, and able to install ESXi 4.1 using xCAT (nodeset node install works OK). How would I add ESXi 4.1 image to VCL which is bases
Re: VCL and xCat
Thank you for all your help. xCAT / VCL is working OK with both 'image' and
'kickstart' provisioning.
There is a small issue with xCAT2.pm going tru install stages when deploying
kickstart image. xCAT2.m uses listener.py to get status, but kickstart image
doesn't have it.
Earlier I've added a custom script 'vcl_nodestat' to read from remote socket
created by listener.py.
Here is updated version of 'vcl_nodestat', adjusted to get status from xCAT for
kickstart install. It seems to working OK.
code perl
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use IO::Socket;
my ($remote, $answer, $peerAddress, $peerPort,
$sendCommand,$installType,$XCAT_ROOT);
$peerAddress = $ARGV[0];
$peerPort = 3001;
$sendCommand = $ARGV[1];
$XCAT_ROOT = '/opt/xcat';
#get install type via: tabdump -w node==node nodetype|tail -1|awk -F, {'print
$2'}
#get current status for non-image install via: tabdump -w node==node chain|tail
-1|awk -F, {'print $2'}
$installType = `$XCAT_ROOT/sbin/tabdump -w node==$peerAddress nodetype|tail
-1|awk -F, {'print \$2'}|sed s/\\//g`;
if ( $installType =~ /image/ ) { # connect to listener.py for stat
$remote=IO::Socket::INET-new(Proto ='tcp',PeerAddr = $peerAddress,PeerPort
= $peerPort,Type = SOCK_STREAM) or die $peerAddress: noping\n;
print $remote $sendCommand\n;
while ($answer=$remote)
{
print $peerAddress: $answer\n;
}
close $remote;
} else { # install is kickstart
$answer = `$XCAT_ROOT/sbin/tabdump -w node==$peerAddress chain|tail -1|awk -F
',' {'print \$2'}|sed s/\\//g`;
print $peerAddress: $answer;
}
/code
These are changes to xCAT2.pm related to this:
# diff xCAT2.pm-copy xCAT2.pm-copy2
580c580
if (open(NODESTAT, $XCAT_ROOT/bin/nodestat $computer_node_name
stat 21 |)) {
---
if (open(NODESTAT, $XCAT_ROOT/bin/vcl_nodestat
$computer_node_name stat 21 |)) {
600c600
} ## end if (open(NODESTAT, $XCAT_ROOT/bin/nodestat
$computer_node_name stat 21 |...
---
} ## end if (open(NODESTAT, $XCAT_ROOT/bin/vcl_nodestat
$computer_node_name stat 21 |...
603c603
notify($ERRORS{'CRITICAL'}, 0, could not run
$XCAT_ROOT/bin/nodestat command);
---
notify($ERRORS{'CRITICAL'}, 0, could not run
$XCAT_ROOT/bin/vcl_nodestat command);
614c614
elsif ($status =~ /partimage-ng: complete/) {
---
elsif ($status =~ /partimage-ng: complete|boot/) {
632c632
if ($nodeset_status =~ /boot/ || $status =~
/partimage-ng: complete/) {
---
if ($nodeset_status =~ /boot/ || $status =~
/partimage-ng: complete|boot/) {
976c976
if (open(NODESTAT, $XCAT_ROOT/bin/nodestat $computer_node_name stat
21 |)) {
---
if (open(NODESTAT, $XCAT_ROOT/bin/vcl_nodestat $computer_node_name
stat 21 |)) {
993c993
} ## end if (open(NODESTAT, $XCAT_ROOT/bin/nodestat
$computer_node_name stat 21 |...
---
} ## end if (open(NODESTAT, $XCAT_ROOT/bin/vcl_nodestat
$computer_node_name stat 21 |...
On Mar 1, 2012, at 10:45 , Aaron Peeler wrote:
Also created a document on this topic. Please review and correct if needed.
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/VCL/Adding+xCAT+kickstart+based+image
Aaron
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Dmitri Chebotarov dcheb...@gmu.edu wrote:
Mike
Thank you. I was missing the record in vcl.resource table.
For ESXi 4.1 kickstart I had to change sourcepath value in vcl.os from
esxi4.1 to esxi41 for id=38. xCAT2.pm can only get esxi4. (misses part after
.)
I also had to create couple symlinks for xCAT2.pm to find image folder, but
it's working now.
Thank you.
On Feb 29, 2012, at 16:47 , Waldron, Michael H wrote:
Dmitri,
I have a script that I run to manually insert an image into the database.
It places an entry in the image, imgagerevision, and resource tables. Here
is a sample below. Of course you would substitute the proper values for
your situation.
INSERT INTO `image` (id, `name`, `prettyname`, `ownerid`, `deptid`,
`platformid`,
`OSid`, `imagemetaid`, `minram`, `minprocnumber`, `minprocspeed`,
`minnetwork`,
`maxconcurrent`, `reloadtime`, `deleted`, `test`, `lastupdate`,
`forcheckout`, `maxinitialtime`,
`project`, `size`) VALUES (150, 'vmwarerhels4-base150-v0', 'Base No Apps,
RHEL4 32-bit w/AFS (vmware)', 8, 1, 1, 32, NULL, 1024, 1, 0, 10, NULL, 14,
0, 0, NOW(), 1, 0, 'vcl', 1045);
INSERT INTO `imagerevision` (`imageid`, `revision`, `userid`,
`datecreated`, `deleted`, `production`,
`comments`, `imagename`) VALUES (150, 0, 8, NOW(), 0, 1, NULL,
'vmwarerhels4-base150-v0');
INSERT INTO `resource` (`resourcetypeid`, `subid`) VALUES (13, 150);
Mike
Mike Waldron
Systems Specialist
ITS Research Computing
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
CB 3420, ITS Manning, Rm 2509
919-962-9778
-Original Message-
From: Dmitri Chebotarov [mailto:dcheb...@gmu.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, February
Re: VCL and xCat
Hi
Is there a way to use kickstart script install with VCL/xCAT?
xCAT2.pm code mentions use of templates, but I cannot find a way how to make
use of them.
I have working ESXi 4.1 template, and able to install ESXi 4.1 using xCAT
(nodeset node install works OK).
How would I add ESXi 4.1 image to VCL which is bases on kickstart, not on
partimage?
Thank you for help.
On Feb 22, 2012, at 14:12 , Josh Thompson wrote:
Hash: SHA1
Dmitri,
Did you follow the guide for adding partimage support to xCAT?
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/VCL/Adding+support+for+partimage+and+partimage-
ng+to+xCAT+2.x+%28unofficial%29
You said you installed the partimage rpm. partimage is not something that
needs to be installed on the management node. It is part of the stateless
images mentioned on the above page.
Josh
On Tuesday 21 February 2012 4:47:06 PM Dmitri Chebotarov wrote:
Hi All.
I'm trying to capture a base image using xCAT module - the server is
bare-metal CentOS5.7. The process starts OK, able to communicate with the
node and then fails when trying to create .tmpl file.
xCAT is installed and configured on the management node.
partimage rpm is installed as well.
Do you know what could be the issue?
Thank you for your help.
...
2012-02-21 16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|xCAT2.pm:capture(827)|nodetype
modified, node bc1-7, image name centos5image-xcatcentos5v474-v0 2012-02-21
16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|xCAT2.pm:_create_template(1065)|attempting to
create tmpl file for image: centos5image-xcatcentos5v474-v0 2012-02-21
16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|xCAT2.pm:_get_image_template_path(2084)|manage
ment node identifier argument was not specified
2012-02-21 16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|
xCAT2.pm:_get_image_template_path(2115)|attempting to determine template path
for image:
|12755|275:261|image| image name: centos5image-xcatcentos5v474-v0
|12755|275:261|image| OS install type: partimage
|12755|275:261|image| OS source path: image
|12755|275:261|image| xCAT 2.x OS source path: image
2012-02-21
16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|xCAT2.pm:_get_image_template_path(2123)|return
ing: /opt/xcat/share/xcat/install/image 2012-02-21
16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|xCAT2.pm:_get_image_template_path(2084)|manage
ment node identifier argument was not specified
2012-02-21 16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|
xCAT2.pm:_get_image_template_path(2115)|attempting to determine template path
for image:
|12755|275:261|image| image name: centos5image-xcatcentos5v474-v0
|12755|275:261|image| OS install type: partimage
|12755|275:261|image| OS source path: image
|12755|275:261|image| xCAT 2.x OS source path: image
2012-02-21
16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|xCAT2.pm:_get_image_template_path(2123)|return
ing: /opt/xcat/share/xcat/install/image 2012-02-21
16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|DataStructure.pm:get_computer_private_ip_addre
ss(1557)|returning private IP address previously retrieved: 10.3.1.27
2012-02-21
16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|utils.pm:is_inblockrequest(6164)|zero rows
were returned from database select 2012-02-21
16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|DataStructure.pm:get_image_affiliation_name(20
35)|image owner id: 1 2012-02-21
16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|utils.pm:getnewdbh(2710)|database requested
(information_schema) does not match handle stored in $ENV{dbh}
(vcl:10.3.1.214) 2012-02-21
16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|utils.pm:getnewdbh(2761)|database handle
stored in $ENV{dbh} 2012-02-21
16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|DataStructure.pm:retrieve_user_data(1352)|atte
mpting to retrieve and store data for user: user.id = '1' 2012-02-21
16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|utils.pm:getnewdbh(2710)|database requested
(vcl) does not match handle stored in $ENV{dbh}
(information_schema:10.3.1.214) 2012-02-21
16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|utils.pm:getnewdbh(2761)|database handle
stored in $ENV{dbh} 2012-02-21
16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|DataStructure.pm:retrieve_user_data(1415)|data
has been retrieved for user: admin (id: 1) 2012-02-21
16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|utils.pm:mail(1268)|SUCCESS -- Sending mail
To: dcheb...@gmu.edu, PROBLEM --
275:261|image|xCAT2.pm|bc1-7|centos5image-xcatcentos5v474-v0|admin
|12755|275:261|image| CRITICAL
|12755|275:261|image| 2012-02-21
|16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|xCAT2.pm:_get_base_template_filename(2170)|f
|ailed to find suitable base image template file in
|/opt/xcat/share/xcat/install/image 12755|275:261|image| ( 0) xCAT2.pm,
|_get_base_template_filename (line: 2170) 12755|275:261|image| (-1)
|xCAT2.pm, _create_template (line: 1075) 12755|275:261|image| (-2)
|xCAT2.pm, capture (line: 836)
|12755|275:261|image| (-3) image.pm, process (line: 162)
|12755|275:261|image| (-4) vcld, make_new_child (line: 568)
|12755|275:261|image| (-5) vcld, main (line: 346)
|12755|275:261|image| WARNING
|12755|275:261|image| 2012-02-21
|16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|xCAT2.pm:_create_template(1077)|base
|template
Re: VCL and xCat
Mike, Thank you for explanation. How did you add kickstart image to vcl.image table? I've tried adding image by inserting record directly into vcl.image and vcl.imagemeta tables, but this didn't work. vcld --setup only allows partimage type for bare-metal. Thank you. On Feb 29, 2012, at 15:41 , Waldron, Michael H wrote: Dmitri, Yes, VCL supports kickstart installs with xCAT. The column in the image table that corresponds to the install type is OSid. Example: mysql select prettyname, OSid from image where id=235; +---+--+ | prettyname| OSid | +---+--+ | RedHat Enterprise Linux server 5 (KS) | 19 | +---+--+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) mysql select * from OS where id=19; ++---++---+-++--+ | id | name | prettyname | type | installtype | sourcepath | moduleid | ++---++---+-++--+ | 19 | rhel5 | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | linux | kickstart | rhas5 |5 | ++---++---+-++--+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) mysql select * from module where id=5; ++--+-+-++ | id | name | prettyname | description | perlpackage| ++--+-+-++ | 5 | os_linux | Linux OS Module | | VCL::Module::OS::Linux | ++--+-+-++ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) So in this case OS id 19 specifies a RHEL5 kickstart install, the sourcepath where the RHEL5 installation files are under /install/rhas5. The OS entry links to the module table, id 5 which tells it the perl module to use. You need to have the appropriate entries in your OS and module tables specific to your ESXi image. Mike Mike Waldron Systems Specialist ITS Research Computing University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill CB 3420, ITS Manning, Rm 2509 919-962-9778 -Original Message- From: Dmitri Chebotarov [mailto:dcheb...@gmu.edu] Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 3:17 PM To: vcl-user@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: VCL and xCat Hi again, Looks like vcl.os and vcl.osinstalltype tables have 'kickstart' installtype for an image. But I cannot find a way to set image_os_install_type to 'kickstart', it's 'partimage' by default for bare-metal. And there seems to be no column in vcl.image table which corresponds to image_os_install_type. Help! Does VCL support kickstart image install with xCAT module? Thank you. On Feb 29, 2012, at 11:14 , Dmitri Chebotarov wrote: Hi Is there a way to use kickstart script install with VCL/xCAT? xCAT2.pm code mentions use of templates, but I cannot find a way how to make use of them. I have working ESXi 4.1 template, and able to install ESXi 4.1 using xCAT (nodeset node install works OK). How would I add ESXi 4.1 image to VCL which is bases on kickstart, not on partimage? Thank you for help. On Feb 22, 2012, at 14:12 , Josh Thompson wrote: Hash: SHA1 Dmitri, Did you follow the guide for adding partimage support to xCAT? https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/VCL/Adding+support+for+partimage+and+partimage- ng+to+xCAT+2.x+%28unofficial%29 You said you installed the partimage rpm. partimage is not something that needs to be installed on the management node. It is part of the stateless images mentioned on the above page. Josh On Tuesday 21 February 2012 4:47:06 PM Dmitri Chebotarov wrote: Hi All. I'm trying to capture a base image using xCAT module - the server is bare-metal CentOS5.7. The process starts OK, able to communicate with the node and then fails when trying to create .tmpl file. xCAT is installed and configured on the management node. partimage rpm is installed as well. Do you know what could be the issue? Thank you for your help. ... 2012-02-21 16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|xCAT2.pm:capture(827)|nodetype modified, node bc1-7, image name centos5image-xcatcentos5v474-v0 2012-02-21 16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|xCAT2.pm:_create_template(1065)|attempting to create tmpl file for image: centos5image-xcatcentos5v474-v0 2012-02-21 16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|xCAT2.pm:_get_image_template_path(2084)|manage ment node identifier argument was not specified 2012-02-21 16:22:30|12755|275:261|image| xCAT2.pm:_get_image_template_path(2115)|attempting to determine template path for image: |12755|275:261|image| image name: centos5image-xcatcentos5v474-v0 |12755|275:261|image| OS install type: partimage |12755|275:261|image| OS source path: image |12755|275:261|image| xCAT 2
Re: failed mysql connection
Clark Could you also check that selinux is disabled? On Feb 28, 2012, at 8:51 , Clark Cooper wrote: Yes, I'm able to make a connection from command line (using the password in the secrets file): [root@rhel61 ~]# mysql -u vcluser -p Enter password: Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 3 Server version: 5.1.61 Source distribution I still get the connection error after making the suggested MySQL grant: mysql GRANT ALL ON vcl.* TO 'vcluser'@'localhost'; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) Thanks, Clark -Original Message- From: dcheb...@gmu.edu [mailto:dcheb...@gmu.edu] Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 8:54 PM To: vcl-user@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: failed mysql connection Clark Are you able to connect to mysql from command line on rhel61 host, 'mysql -u vcluser -p' ? Can you also try with GRAND ALL ON vcl.* TO 'vcluser'@localhost? On Feb 27, 2012, at 16:36 , Clark Cooper wrote: Still trying to get VCL setup/configured and moving past the php-mcrypt issue, I also receive the following message within my testsetup.php output: Testing mysql connection ... Error: fsockopen(): unable to connect to localhost:3306 (Permission denied) Could not connect to port 3306 on localhost For debugging purposes, I have stopped iptables. Here is the connection information within my secrets.php file: [root@rhel61 .ht-inc]# grep vcl secrets.php $vclhost = 'localhost'; # name of mysql server $vcldb = 'vcl'; # name of mysql database $vclusername = 'vcluser'; # username to access database $vclpassword = 'vcluserpassword'; # password to access database Note the following outputs from MySQL: mysql show grants for vcluser@localhost; ++ | Grants for vcluser@localhost | ++ | GRANT USAGE ON *.* TO 'vcluser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD | '*BC54E34381D07EB1FF25938A2F524C17201FC22F' | GRANT SELECT, INSERT, | UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES, LOCK TABLES ON `vcl`.* TO | 'vcluser'@'localhost' | ++ 2 rows in set (0.00 sec) mysql select host, user, password from mysql.user; +---+-+---+ | host | user| password | +---+-+---+ | localhost | root| *A195277AB4567B2C3C4CDCAF6B5B48409EFE6765 | | 127.0.0.1 | root| *A195277AB4567B2C3C4CDCAF6B5B48409EFE6765 | | localhost | vcluser | *BC54E34381D07EB1FF25938A2F524C17201FC22F | +---+-+---+ Clark Cooper | Senior Systems Engineer 1301 Gervais Street, Suite 1800 | Columbia, SC 29201 (d) 803.978.2699 | (f) 803.733.5888 clark.coo...@vc3.com | www.VC3.com Follow us: Thank you. - Dmitri Chebotarov dcheb...@gmu.edu 703-993-6175 - Thank you. - Dmitri Chebotarov dcheb...@gmu.edu 703-993-6175 - signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail
Re: VCL and xCat
Hi
There seems to be a disconnect between xCAT2.pm and
/install/postscripts/partimageng script. The partimageng script starts
listener.py in background which suppose to report to nodestat in xCAT2.pm
module. xCAT2.pm is using 'nodestat nodename stat' to check on status, but
nodestat command doesn't use listener.py running on the node.
Is there a workaround? May be an updated version of xCAT2.pm which checks
/var/log/messages on round2?
Looks like partimageng is using logger to report back the status to xCat
master...
B/c of this, reservation or reload is inconsistent. nodestat would report
install imagename for about 7-9 sec and xCAT2.pm doesn't always get it.
Thank you for your help.
On Feb 22, 2012, at 14:32 , Dmitri Chebotarov wrote:
John,
I got the link and I think I'm making some good progress.
Also found this tread on the maillist
(http://markmail.org/message/lotx3l34co6yv5nf?q=partimageng%2Epm#query:partimageng.pm+page:1+mid:lthvtrde7radude3+state:results)
where you helped Prem, which is very helpful.
Thank you
On Feb 22, 2012, at 14:12 , Josh Thompson wrote:
Hash: SHA1
Dmitri,
Did you follow the guide for adding partimage support to xCAT?
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/VCL/Adding+support+for+partimage+and+partimage-
ng+to+xCAT+2.x+%28unofficial%29
You said you installed the partimage rpm. partimage is not something that
needs to be installed on the management node. It is part of the stateless
images mentioned on the above page.
Josh
On Tuesday 21 February 2012 4:47:06 PM Dmitri Chebotarov wrote:
Hi All.
I'm trying to capture a base image using xCAT module - the server is
bare-metal CentOS5.7. The process starts OK, able to communicate with the
node and then fails when trying to create .tmpl file.
xCAT is installed and configured on the management node.
partimage rpm is installed as well.
Do you know what could be the issue?
Thank you for your help.
...
2012-02-21 16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|xCAT2.pm:capture(827)|nodetype
modified, node bc1-7, image name centos5image-xcatcentos5v474-v0 2012-02-21
16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|xCAT2.pm:_create_template(1065)|attempting to
create tmpl file for image: centos5image-xcatcentos5v474-v0 2012-02-21
16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|xCAT2.pm:_get_image_template_path(2084)|manage
ment node identifier argument was not specified
2012-02-21 16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|
xCAT2.pm:_get_image_template_path(2115)|attempting to determine template
path
for image:
|12755|275:261|image| image name: centos5image-xcatcentos5v474-v0
|12755|275:261|image| OS install type: partimage
|12755|275:261|image| OS source path: image
|12755|275:261|image| xCAT 2.x OS source path: image
2012-02-21
16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|xCAT2.pm:_get_image_template_path(2123)|return
ing: /opt/xcat/share/xcat/install/image 2012-02-21
16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|xCAT2.pm:_get_image_template_path(2084)|manage
ment node identifier argument was not specified
2012-02-21 16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|
xCAT2.pm:_get_image_template_path(2115)|attempting to determine template
path
for image:
|12755|275:261|image| image name: centos5image-xcatcentos5v474-v0
|12755|275:261|image| OS install type: partimage
|12755|275:261|image| OS source path: image
|12755|275:261|image| xCAT 2.x OS source path: image
2012-02-21
16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|xCAT2.pm:_get_image_template_path(2123)|return
ing: /opt/xcat/share/xcat/install/image 2012-02-21
16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|DataStructure.pm:get_computer_private_ip_addre
ss(1557)|returning private IP address previously retrieved: 10.3.1.27
2012-02-21
16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|utils.pm:is_inblockrequest(6164)|zero rows
were returned from database select 2012-02-21
16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|DataStructure.pm:get_image_affiliation_name(20
35)|image owner id: 1 2012-02-21
16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|utils.pm:getnewdbh(2710)|database requested
(information_schema) does not match handle stored in $ENV{dbh}
(vcl:10.3.1.214) 2012-02-21
16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|utils.pm:getnewdbh(2761)|database handle
stored in $ENV{dbh} 2012-02-21
16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|DataStructure.pm:retrieve_user_data(1352)|atte
mpting to retrieve and store data for user: user.id = '1' 2012-02-21
16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|utils.pm:getnewdbh(2710)|database requested
(vcl) does not match handle stored in $ENV{dbh}
(information_schema:10.3.1.214) 2012-02-21
16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|utils.pm:getnewdbh(2761)|database handle
stored in $ENV{dbh} 2012-02-21
16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|DataStructure.pm:retrieve_user_data(1415)|data
has been retrieved for user: admin (id: 1) 2012-02-21
16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|utils.pm:mail(1268)|SUCCESS -- Sending mail
To: dcheb...@gmu.edu, PROBLEM --
275:261|image|xCAT2.pm|bc1-7|centos5image-xcatcentos5v474-v0|admin
|12755|275:261|image| CRITICAL
|12755|275:261|image| 2012-02-21
|16:22
Re: Linux servers with VLAN ID
Hi All
Please ignore this question.
I fixed it with adding a boot script to Linux bare-metal image (in /etc/init.d)
to replace eth1 with eth1. in /etc/rc.local file using sed.
Thanks.
On Feb 27, 2012, at 15:16 , Dmitri Chebotarov wrote:
Hi All,
In case if I need to use VLANs on external interface on Linux servers, what
would be the good way to handle eth1.xx interfaces?
I'm adding xCAT support for VCL and xCAT servers have external interface with
VLAD id.
The VCL script in rc.local checks for eth1, but not for eth1.xxx (which is
understandable).
I plan to change 1st two lines to:
IP0=$(ifconfig | grep inet addr:|awk '{print $2}' | awk -F: '{print
$2}'|awk '{ if (NR==1) print $0 }')
IP1=$(ifconfig | grep inet addr:|awk '{print $2}' | awk -F: '{print
$2}'|awk '{ if (NR==2) print $0 }')
or to:
IF0=$(ip -f inet addr|grep inet |grep eth0| awk {'print $7'})
IF1=$(ip -f inet addr|grep inet |grep eth1| awk {'print $7'})
IP0=$(ifconfig $IF0 | grep inet | awk '{print $2}' | awk -F: '{print $2}')
IP1=$(ifconfig $IF1 | grep inet | awk '{print $2}' | awk -F: '{print $2}')
and wanted to ask if anyone had to solve similar problem in the past and may
be have different solution.
I cannot hardcode eth1.VLANID, b/c the same VCL is used for VMs as well, and
those don't have VLANs (VLANs done by ESXi host)
This is original script, which I plan to change:
# This file will get overwritten during image capture. Any customizations
# should be put into /etc/init.d/vcl_post_reserve or /etc/init.d/vcl_post_load
# Note these files do not exist by default.
IP0=$(ifconfig eth0 | grep inet | awk '{print $2}' | awk -F: '{print $2}')
IP1=$(ifconfig eth1 | grep inet | awk '{print $2}' | awk -F: '{print $2}')
sed -i -e '/.*AllowUsers .*$/d' /etc/ssh/sshd_config
sed -i -e '/.*ListenAddress .*/d' /etc/ssh/sshd_config
sed -i -e '/.*ListenAddress .*/d' /etc/ssh/external_sshd_config
echo AllowUsers root /etc/ssh/sshd_config
echo ListenAddress $IP0 /etc/ssh/sshd_config
echo ListenAddress $IP1 /etc/ssh/external_sshd_config
/etc/rc.d/init.d/ext_sshd stop
/etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd stop
sleep 2
/etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd start
/etc/rc.d/init.d/ext_sshd start
Thank you.
-
Dmitri Chebotarov
dcheb...@gmu.edu
703-993-6175
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Thank you.
-
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dcheb...@gmu.edu
703-993-6175
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Re: VCL and xCat
Josh
I didn't think that making any major changes to xCAT2.pm would be a good idea.
In fact the solution provided at
https://cwiki.apache.org/VCL/adding-support-for-partimage-and-partimage-ng-to-xcat-2x-unofficial.html
is good and tested. I assume that in newer xCAT nodestat behaves differently.
To get it working again I've created new /opt/xcat/bin/vcl_nodestat script,
which communicates with socket created by listener.py.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my ($remote, $answer, $peerAddress, $peerPort, $sendCommand);
$peerAddress = $ARGV[0];
$peerPort = 3001;
$sendCommand = $ARGV[1];
use IO::Socket;
$remote=IO::Socket::INET-new(Proto='tcp',PeerAddr = $peerAddress,PeerPort =
$peerPort,Type =SOCK_STREAM) or die $peerAddress: noping\n;
print $remote $sendCommand\n;
while ($answer=$remote){
print $peerAddress:$answer\n;
}
close $remote;
Then I made some minor changes to xCAT2.pm, replacing '$XCAT_ROOT/bin/nodestat'
with '$XCAT_ROOT/bin/vcl_nodestat'.
This seems to fixed the problem.
Thanks.
On Feb 28, 2012, at 15:42 , Josh Thompson wrote:
Hash: SHA1
Dmitri,
At some point, this did work. I'm not sure when it broke, but I never dug
back in to it to make it work again. We've not noticed it causing failures;
so, I just let it go. I can have a look at it again when I get a chance.
Can you send some more detailed information about the conditions when you see
the problem?
One other thing to look at - what does nodestat report after install
imagename? If it is reporting that ssh is running, you may have a
postscript set to configure ssh that is getting run for the stateless image.
We have things set up so that ssh does not get set up for the stateless image.
Josh
On Tuesday, February 28, 2012 12:58:46 PM Dmitri Chebotarov wrote:
Hi
There seems to be a disconnect between xCAT2.pm and
/install/postscripts/partimageng script. The partimageng script starts
listener.py in background which suppose to report to nodestat in xCAT2.pm
module. xCAT2.pm is using 'nodestat nodename stat' to check on status, but
nodestat command doesn't use listener.py running on the node.
Is there a workaround? May be an updated version of xCAT2.pm which checks
/var/log/messages on round2? Looks like partimageng is using logger to
report back the status to xCat master...
B/c of this, reservation or reload is inconsistent. nodestat would report
install imagename for about 7-9 sec and xCAT2.pm doesn't always get it.
Thank you for your help.
On Feb 22, 2012, at 14:32 , Dmitri Chebotarov wrote:
John,
I got the link and I think I'm making some good progress.
Also found this tread on the maillist
(http://markmail.org/message/lotx3l34co6yv5nf?q=partimageng%2Epm#query:
partimageng.pm+page:1+mid:lthvtrde7radude3+state:results) where you
helped Prem, which is very helpful.
Thank you
On Feb 22, 2012, at 14:12 , Josh Thompson wrote:
Hash: SHA1
Dmitri,
Did you follow the guide for adding partimage support to xCAT?
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/VCL/Adding+support+for+par
timage+and+partimage- ng+to+xCAT+2.x+%28unofficial%29
You said you installed the partimage rpm. partimage is not something
that needs to be installed on the management node. It is part of the
stateless images mentioned on the above page.
Josh
On Tuesday 21 February 2012 4:47:06 PM Dmitri Chebotarov wrote:
Hi All.
I'm trying to capture a base image using xCAT module - the server is
bare-metal CentOS5.7. The process starts OK, able to communicate
with the node and then fails when trying to create .tmpl file.
xCAT is installed and configured on the management node.
partimage rpm is installed as well.
Do you know what could be the issue?
Thank you for your help.
...
2012-02-21
16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|xCAT2.pm:capture(827)|nodetype
modified, node bc1-7, image name centos5image-xcatcentos5v474-v0
2012-02-21
16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|xCAT2.pm:_create_template(1065)|attemp
ting to create tmpl file for image: centos5image-xcatcentos5v474-v0
2012-02-21
16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|xCAT2.pm:_get_image_template_path(2084
)|manage ment node identifier argument was not specified
2012-02-21 16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|
xCAT2.pm:_get_image_template_path(2115)|attempting to determine
template path
for image:
|12755|275:261|image| image name: centos5image-xcatcentos5v474-v0
|12755|275:261|image| OS install type: partimage
|12755|275:261|image| OS source path: image
|12755|275:261|image| xCAT 2.x OS source path: image
2012-02-21
16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|xCAT2.pm:_get_image_template_path(2123)
|return ing: /opt/xcat/share/xcat/install/image 2012-02-21
16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|xCAT2.pm:_get_image_template_path(2084)
|manage ment node identifier argument was not specified
2012-02-21 16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|
xCAT2.pm:_get_image_template_path(2115)|attempting to determine
template path
for image:
|12755|275:261|image
Re: Creating a base image
Aaron The problem seems to be with your /etc/hosts file. 'cat /etc/hosts' failed with exit status 255, when exit status 0 is expected. B/c of this, vcl couldn't get private ip address and didn't attempt to connect to the host. I cannot think of any valid reasons why 'cat /etc/hosts' would fail... Can you double-check syntax, permission, selinux, ... ? ... |10951|20:20|image| WARNING |10951|20:20|image| 2012-02-28 13:32:34|10951|20:20|image|DataStructure.pm:get_computer_private_ip_address(1589)|failed to cat /etc/hosts on this management node, exit status: 255, output: |10951|20:20|image| 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4 |10951|20:20|image| 192.168.0.101 1vsphere 1vsphere.upb.pitt.edu ... On Feb 28, 2012, at 13:28 , Aaron Bryant wrote: Greetings, I completed installing Cygwin SSHD and I'm attempting to run the vcld -setup command. My problem occurs in this step while creating a base image. I am able to get through all of the prompts and start the creation before the script crashes. I have checked the '/var/log/vcld.log' log file and this is a portion of the output: --- VCL::Module::Provisioning::VMware::vSphere_SDK |10951|20:20|image| WARNING |10951|20:20|image| 2012-02-28 13:32:34|10951|20:20|image|VMware.pm:initialize(273)|no methods are available to control VM host vsphere, the vSphere SDK cannot be used to control the VM host and the host OS cannot be controlled via SSH |10951|20:20|image| ( 0) VMware.pm, initialize (line: 273) |10951|20:20|image| (-1) Module.pm, new (line: 207) |10951|20:20|image| (-2) Module.pm, create_provisioning_object (line: 423) |10951|20:20|image| (-3) State.pm, initialize (line: 117) |10951| 20:20|image| (-4) Module.pm, new (line: 207) |10951|20:20|image| (-5) vcld, make_new_child (line: 564) |10951|20:20| image| WARNING |10951|20:20|image| 2012-02-28 13:32:34|10951|20:20|image| Module.pm:create_provisioning_object(431)|provisioning object could not be created, returning 0 |10951|20:20|image| ( 0) Module.pm, create_provisioning_object (line: 431) |10951|20:20|image| (-1) State.pm, initialize (line: 117) | 10951|20:20|image| (-2) Module.pm, new (line: 207) |10951|20:20|image| (-3) vcld, make_new_child (line: 564) |10951| - I have checked and am able to ssh between the management node and the virtual machines using key authentication. Please see the log file attached for more information. Thanks, Aaron Bryant Logfile.txt Thank you. - Dmitri Chebotarov dcheb...@gmu.edu 703-993-6175 - signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail
Re: VCL and xCat
Aaron You mentioned using xCAT to provision end-use desktops at ncsu. How do you handle xCAT r* commands? Did you have to add a remote management card to each desktop to support rpower, etc? Thanks. On Feb 10, 2012, at 9:30 , Aaron Peeler wrote: Dmitri, Just to add to Amit, comments. We use xCAT extensively here at ncsu. From provisioning end-user desktops and our hypervisors. xCAT very helpful when needed to install a chassis full of blades with esxi. As your installing xCAT You'll want to review https://cwiki.apache.org/VCL/adding-support-for-partimage-and-partimage-ng-to-xcat-2x-unofficial.html We added in VCL support for partimage - which is used to capture the disk images of end-user environments/desktops for windows and linux. When your adding nodes to vcl through the manage computers tool, make sure to choose xCAT 2.x . If your doing windows bare-metal, you'll also need to include sysprep and related mass storage drivers so it can be reloaded successfully. For sysprep review step 8 on this page: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/VCL/VCL+2.2.1+Management+Node+Installation Hope this info helps, Aaron On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Dmitri Chebotarov dcheb...@gmu.edu wrote: Amit, Thanks a lot. On Feb 9, 2012, at 15:57 , Kumar, Amit H. wrote: Hi Dmitri, You general idea is correct to my best understanding. Install Path in the Edit management Node will be the path for xCAT(bare metal) image repository. In addition when you configure the Site table in xCAT you will set the installdir to point to the location where you will store your images. We have IBM E Blade Chassis with HS22 blade servers. Best, Amit -Original Message- From: dcheb...@gmu.edu [mailto:dcheb...@gmu.edu] Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 3:44 PM To: vcl-user@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: VCL and xCat Amit, I'm trying to get general idea about xCat/VCL : so, basically xCat needs to be installed and configured on VCL Mgm node(s) before it can be used with VCL, and I should be able to successfully provision xCat nodes/clients with different images. Once xCat is working then I can add bare-metal computers - blade with xCat 2.x engine. Does it sound right? How do you tell VCL where to get image files for xCat nodes - is it 'Install Path' setting under Management Nodes - Edit management node information? What kind of hardware do you have for xCat nodes? Are those IBM blade servers or/and PCs? Thanks. On Feb 9, 2012, at 15:16 , Kumar, Amit H. wrote: Hi, We do not need an additional/dedicated server to do both xCAT and VCL together, your management node can serve as your xCAT server. I would recommend getting xCAT to work by itself before using VCL to manage your images and guest OS. This has worked well for us so far. :Amit -Original Message- From: dcheb...@gmu.edu [mailto:dcheb...@gmu.edu] Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 3:03 PM To: vcl-user@incubator.apache.org Subject: VCL and xCat Hi All Anyone is using xCat with VCL? I have generic question about xCat and VCL - where do I start? Do I need working xCat environment before I can add it to VCL? Does xCat need dedicated server? Or does it run on the VCL management node? Are there any special hardware requirements for xCat clients? Thank you. Thank you. - Dmitri Chebotarov dcheb...@gmu.edu 703-993-6175 - Thank you. - Dmitri Chebotarov dcheb...@gmu.edu 703-993-6175 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPNDStAAoJEMRKpymufl8aAxkH/iCGHjBRUMR85l4+D3clzzem eb4+RtsjvqfnJO7IjjF3Ajs73labFWvoEgpJrbFous2v6ou/gNsUgB82hWicqNTm 5+ZKkdncM2qWl2QI1ED6kvZt0OHmG/cUbRk0XRlPSjf99dIYgjqPZBL4xFNje62X xzNNPCEC7S5lixouyUcFPh7KhVR+11zvZsliV19CYH6HqXLpSphRt/gN5HIK77gD xNpfymdAPf2iJ1Dur5MNngnJIYTgdNgYq8pTvmrxPNEixumYsTU1UQzYFbijpctI yL8gUhP2kX2Yd45mVGzZxmJXDrOkg0rLxmIxVrrmGH2/iLSHpSFE+8mY0kqbTmA= =86fD -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Aaron Peeler Program Manager Virtual Computing Lab NC State University 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 dcheb...@gmu.edu 703-993-6175 - signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail
Re: php-mcrypt and php-sysvsem
Scott, You can also remove mcrypt dependency via this patch, if your environment permits: https://cwiki.apache.org/VCL/patch-to-remove-mcrypt-dependency.html Thanks. On Feb 27, 2012, at 14:33 , Scott M. Sorrentino wrote: Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 06:55:15PM +, Clark Cooper wrote: I'm attempting to install/configure VCL on a RHEL61 z/Linux system and having difficulty with the requirements for php-mcrypt and php-sysvsem as these packages do not appear to be available for my release. I had the mcrypt issue on RHEL5 (php not php53) and worked around it by installing the php source RPM, building the mcrypt module by hand and adding it to php.ini. - -- Scott M. Sorrentino sms...@cornell.edu CIT Systems Operations, Cornell University 726 Rhodes Hall // (607) 254-8535 GnuPG fingerprint: 6E30 0B83 43F8 CF8B 3B44 7DBE 6AAE DFC9 1DE6 8C1C Thank you. - Dmitri Chebotarov dcheb...@gmu.edu 703-993-6175 - signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail
Linux servers with VLAN ID
Hi All,
In case if I need to use VLANs on external interface on Linux servers, what
would be the good way to handle eth1.xx interfaces?
I'm adding xCAT support for VCL and xCAT servers have external interface with
VLAD id.
The VCL script in rc.local checks for eth1, but not for eth1.xxx (which is
understandable).
I plan to change 1st two lines to:
IP0=$(ifconfig | grep inet addr:|awk '{print $2}' | awk -F: '{print $2}'|awk
'{ if (NR==1) print $0 }')
IP1=$(ifconfig | grep inet addr:|awk '{print $2}' | awk -F: '{print $2}'|awk
'{ if (NR==2) print $0 }')
or to:
IF0=$(ip -f inet addr|grep inet |grep eth0| awk {'print $7'})
IF1=$(ip -f inet addr|grep inet |grep eth1| awk {'print $7'})
IP0=$(ifconfig $IF0 | grep inet | awk '{print $2}' | awk -F: '{print $2}')
IP1=$(ifconfig $IF1 | grep inet | awk '{print $2}' | awk -F: '{print $2}')
and wanted to ask if anyone had to solve similar problem in the past and may be
have different solution.
I cannot hardcode eth1.VLANID, b/c the same VCL is used for VMs as well, and
those don't have VLANs (VLANs done by ESXi host)
This is original script, which I plan to change:
# This file will get overwritten during image capture. Any customizations
# should be put into /etc/init.d/vcl_post_reserve or /etc/init.d/vcl_post_load
# Note these files do not exist by default.
IP0=$(ifconfig eth0 | grep inet | awk '{print $2}' | awk -F: '{print $2}')
IP1=$(ifconfig eth1 | grep inet | awk '{print $2}' | awk -F: '{print $2}')
sed -i -e '/.*AllowUsers .*$/d' /etc/ssh/sshd_config
sed -i -e '/.*ListenAddress .*/d' /etc/ssh/sshd_config
sed -i -e '/.*ListenAddress .*/d' /etc/ssh/external_sshd_config
echo AllowUsers root /etc/ssh/sshd_config
echo ListenAddress $IP0 /etc/ssh/sshd_config
echo ListenAddress $IP1 /etc/ssh/external_sshd_config
/etc/rc.d/init.d/ext_sshd stop
/etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd stop
sleep 2
/etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd start
/etc/rc.d/init.d/ext_sshd start
Thank you.
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Dmitri Chebotarov
dcheb...@gmu.edu
703-993-6175
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Re: failed mysql connection
Clark Are you able to connect to mysql from command line on rhel61 host, 'mysql -u vcluser -p' ? Can you also try with GRAND ALL ON vcl.* TO 'vcluser'@localhost? On Feb 27, 2012, at 16:36 , Clark Cooper wrote: Still trying to get VCL setup/configured and moving past the php-mcrypt issue, I also receive the following message within my testsetup.php output: Testing mysql connection ... Error: fsockopen(): unable to connect to localhost:3306 (Permission denied) Could not connect to port 3306 on localhost For debugging purposes, I have stopped iptables. Here is the connection information within my secrets.php file: [root@rhel61 .ht-inc]# grep vcl secrets.php $vclhost = 'localhost'; # name of mysql server $vcldb = 'vcl'; # name of mysql database $vclusername = 'vcluser'; # username to access database $vclpassword = 'vcluserpassword'; # password to access database Note the following outputs from MySQL: mysql show grants for vcluser@localhost; ++ | Grants for vcluser@localhost | ++ | GRANT USAGE ON *.* TO 'vcluser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD '*BC54E34381D07EB1FF25938A2F524C17201FC22F' | | GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES, LOCK TABLES ON `vcl`.* TO 'vcluser'@'localhost' | ++ 2 rows in set (0.00 sec) mysql select host, user, password from mysql.user; +---+-+---+ | host | user| password | +---+-+---+ | localhost | root| *A195277AB4567B2C3C4CDCAF6B5B48409EFE6765 | | 127.0.0.1 | root| *A195277AB4567B2C3C4CDCAF6B5B48409EFE6765 | | localhost | vcluser | *BC54E34381D07EB1FF25938A2F524C17201FC22F | +---+-+---+ Clark Cooper | Senior Systems Engineer 1301 Gervais Street, Suite 1800 | Columbia, SC 29201 (d) 803.978.2699 | (f) 803.733.5888 clark.coo...@vc3.com | www.VC3.com Follow us: Thank you. - Dmitri Chebotarov dcheb...@gmu.edu 703-993-6175 - signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail
Re: VCL and xCat
John,
I got the link and I think I'm making some good progress.
Also found this tread on the maillist
(http://markmail.org/message/lotx3l34co6yv5nf?q=partimageng%2Epm#query:partimageng.pm+page:1+mid:lthvtrde7radude3+state:results)
where you helped Prem, which is very helpful.
Thank you
On Feb 22, 2012, at 14:12 , Josh Thompson wrote:
Hash: SHA1
Dmitri,
Did you follow the guide for adding partimage support to xCAT?
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/VCL/Adding+support+for+partimage+and+partimage-
ng+to+xCAT+2.x+%28unofficial%29
You said you installed the partimage rpm. partimage is not something that
needs to be installed on the management node. It is part of the stateless
images mentioned on the above page.
Josh
On Tuesday 21 February 2012 4:47:06 PM Dmitri Chebotarov wrote:
Hi All.
I'm trying to capture a base image using xCAT module - the server is
bare-metal CentOS5.7. The process starts OK, able to communicate with the
node and then fails when trying to create .tmpl file.
xCAT is installed and configured on the management node.
partimage rpm is installed as well.
Do you know what could be the issue?
Thank you for your help.
...
2012-02-21 16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|xCAT2.pm:capture(827)|nodetype
modified, node bc1-7, image name centos5image-xcatcentos5v474-v0 2012-02-21
16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|xCAT2.pm:_create_template(1065)|attempting to
create tmpl file for image: centos5image-xcatcentos5v474-v0 2012-02-21
16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|xCAT2.pm:_get_image_template_path(2084)|manage
ment node identifier argument was not specified
2012-02-21 16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|
xCAT2.pm:_get_image_template_path(2115)|attempting to determine template path
for image:
|12755|275:261|image| image name: centos5image-xcatcentos5v474-v0
|12755|275:261|image| OS install type: partimage
|12755|275:261|image| OS source path: image
|12755|275:261|image| xCAT 2.x OS source path: image
2012-02-21
16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|xCAT2.pm:_get_image_template_path(2123)|return
ing: /opt/xcat/share/xcat/install/image 2012-02-21
16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|xCAT2.pm:_get_image_template_path(2084)|manage
ment node identifier argument was not specified
2012-02-21 16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|
xCAT2.pm:_get_image_template_path(2115)|attempting to determine template path
for image:
|12755|275:261|image| image name: centos5image-xcatcentos5v474-v0
|12755|275:261|image| OS install type: partimage
|12755|275:261|image| OS source path: image
|12755|275:261|image| xCAT 2.x OS source path: image
2012-02-21
16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|xCAT2.pm:_get_image_template_path(2123)|return
ing: /opt/xcat/share/xcat/install/image 2012-02-21
16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|DataStructure.pm:get_computer_private_ip_addre
ss(1557)|returning private IP address previously retrieved: 10.3.1.27
2012-02-21
16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|utils.pm:is_inblockrequest(6164)|zero rows
were returned from database select 2012-02-21
16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|DataStructure.pm:get_image_affiliation_name(20
35)|image owner id: 1 2012-02-21
16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|utils.pm:getnewdbh(2710)|database requested
(information_schema) does not match handle stored in $ENV{dbh}
(vcl:10.3.1.214) 2012-02-21
16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|utils.pm:getnewdbh(2761)|database handle
stored in $ENV{dbh} 2012-02-21
16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|DataStructure.pm:retrieve_user_data(1352)|atte
mpting to retrieve and store data for user: user.id = '1' 2012-02-21
16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|utils.pm:getnewdbh(2710)|database requested
(vcl) does not match handle stored in $ENV{dbh}
(information_schema:10.3.1.214) 2012-02-21
16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|utils.pm:getnewdbh(2761)|database handle
stored in $ENV{dbh} 2012-02-21
16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|DataStructure.pm:retrieve_user_data(1415)|data
has been retrieved for user: admin (id: 1) 2012-02-21
16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|utils.pm:mail(1268)|SUCCESS -- Sending mail
To: dcheb...@gmu.edu, PROBLEM --
275:261|image|xCAT2.pm|bc1-7|centos5image-xcatcentos5v474-v0|admin
|12755|275:261|image| CRITICAL
|12755|275:261|image| 2012-02-21
|16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|xCAT2.pm:_get_base_template_filename(2170)|f
|ailed to find suitable base image template file in
|/opt/xcat/share/xcat/install/image 12755|275:261|image| ( 0) xCAT2.pm,
|_get_base_template_filename (line: 2170) 12755|275:261|image| (-1)
|xCAT2.pm, _create_template (line: 1075) 12755|275:261|image| (-2)
|xCAT2.pm, capture (line: 836)
|12755|275:261|image| (-3) image.pm, process (line: 162)
|12755|275:261|image| (-4) vcld, make_new_child (line: 568)
|12755|275:261|image| (-5) vcld, main (line: 346)
|12755|275:261|image| WARNING
|12755|275:261|image| 2012-02-21
|16:22:30|12755|275:261|image|xCAT2.pm:_create_template(1077)|base
|template filename could not be determined 12755|275:261|image| ( 0)
|xCAT2.pm, _create_template (line
Re: VCL and xCat
Thank you, I hope we can make it work in our environment as well... I keep searching and reading xCat docs - here is good one - http://sumavi.com/books/xcat-administrators-guide. BTW, if you have any docs outside of xcat.org site, please share... At this point I'm looking for xCat overview docs, i.e. to understand the process. Looks like xCat makes extensive use of DHCP server to manage nodes. Are you using different DHCPd servers for VCL VMs and xCat nodes, or just keep everything on one DHCP server and being careful with which MAC gets what? Thanks again for your help... On Feb 10, 2012, at 9:30 , Aaron Peeler wrote: Dmitri, Just to add to Amit, comments. We use xCAT extensively here at ncsu. From provisioning end-user desktops and our hypervisors. xCAT very helpful when needed to install a chassis full of blades with esxi. As your installing xCAT You'll want to review https://cwiki.apache.org/VCL/adding-support-for-partimage-and-partimage-ng-to-xcat-2x-unofficial.html We added in VCL support for partimage - which is used to capture the disk images of end-user environments/desktops for windows and linux. When your adding nodes to vcl through the manage computers tool, make sure to choose xCAT 2.x . If your doing windows bare-metal, you'll also need to include sysprep and related mass storage drivers so it can be reloaded successfully. For sysprep review step 8 on this page: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/VCL/VCL+2.2.1+Management+Node+Installation Hope this info helps, Aaron On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Dmitri Chebotarov dcheb...@gmu.edu wrote: Amit, Thanks a lot. On Feb 9, 2012, at 15:57 , Kumar, Amit H. wrote: Hi Dmitri, You general idea is correct to my best understanding. Install Path in the Edit management Node will be the path for xCAT(bare metal) image repository. In addition when you configure the Site table in xCAT you will set the installdir to point to the location where you will store your images. We have IBM E Blade Chassis with HS22 blade servers. Best, Amit -Original Message- From: dcheb...@gmu.edu [mailto:dcheb...@gmu.edu] Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 3:44 PM To: vcl-user@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: VCL and xCat Amit, I'm trying to get general idea about xCat/VCL : so, basically xCat needs to be installed and configured on VCL Mgm node(s) before it can be used with VCL, and I should be able to successfully provision xCat nodes/clients with different images. Once xCat is working then I can add bare-metal computers - blade with xCat 2.x engine. Does it sound right? How do you tell VCL where to get image files for xCat nodes - is it 'Install Path' setting under Management Nodes - Edit management node information? What kind of hardware do you have for xCat nodes? Are those IBM blade servers or/and PCs? Thanks. On Feb 9, 2012, at 15:16 , Kumar, Amit H. wrote: Hi, We do not need an additional/dedicated server to do both xCAT and VCL together, your management node can serve as your xCAT server. I would recommend getting xCAT to work by itself before using VCL to manage your images and guest OS. This has worked well for us so far. :Amit -Original Message- From: dcheb...@gmu.edu [mailto:dcheb...@gmu.edu] Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 3:03 PM To: vcl-user@incubator.apache.org Subject: VCL and xCat Hi All Anyone is using xCat with VCL? I have generic question about xCat and VCL - where do I start? Do I need working xCat environment before I can add it to VCL? Does xCat need dedicated server? Or does it run on the VCL management node? Are there any special hardware requirements for xCat clients? Thank you. Thank you. - Dmitri Chebotarov dcheb...@gmu.edu 703-993-6175 - Thank you. - Dmitri Chebotarov dcheb...@gmu.edu 703-993-6175 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPNDStAAoJEMRKpymufl8aAxkH/iCGHjBRUMR85l4+D3clzzem eb4+RtsjvqfnJO7IjjF3Ajs73labFWvoEgpJrbFous2v6ou/gNsUgB82hWicqNTm 5+ZKkdncM2qWl2QI1ED6kvZt0OHmG/cUbRk0XRlPSjf99dIYgjqPZBL4xFNje62X xzNNPCEC7S5lixouyUcFPh7KhVR+11zvZsliV19CYH6HqXLpSphRt/gN5HIK77gD xNpfymdAPf2iJ1Dur5MNngnJIYTgdNgYq8pTvmrxPNEixumYsTU1UQzYFbijpctI yL8gUhP2kX2Yd45mVGzZxmJXDrOkg0rLxmIxVrrmGH2/iLSHpSFE+8mY0kqbTmA= =86fD -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Aaron Peeler Program Manager Virtual Computing Lab NC State University 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 dcheb...@gmu.edu 703-993-6175 - signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail
Re: VCL and xCat
Thank you. What version of xCat do you use? Since VCL supports xCat 2.x, is it safe to use latest xCat 2.6.10? Thanks. On Feb 10, 2012, at 11:27 , Kumar, Amit H. wrote: Hi Dmitri, SUMAVI link that you have is a real good one, I blindly followed it and then slowly things started to make more sense once it worked. Also xCAT forum was very helpful. Thank you, Amit -Original Message- From: dcheb...@gmu.edu [mailto:dcheb...@gmu.edu] Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 10:15 AM To: vcl-user@incubator.apache.org; aaron_pee...@ncsu.edu Subject: Re: VCL and xCat Thank you, I hope we can make it work in our environment as well... I keep searching and reading xCat docs - here is good one - http://sumavi.com/books/xcat-administrators-guide. BTW, if you have any docs outside of xcat.org site, please share... At this point I'm looking for xCat overview docs, i.e. to understand the process. Looks like xCat makes extensive use of DHCP server to manage nodes. Are you using different DHCPd servers for VCL VMs and xCat nodes, or just keep everything on one DHCP server and being careful with which MAC gets what? Thanks again for your help... On Feb 10, 2012, at 9:30 , Aaron Peeler wrote: Dmitri, Just to add to Amit, comments. We use xCAT extensively here at ncsu. From provisioning end-user desktops and our hypervisors. xCAT very helpful when needed to install a chassis full of blades with esxi. As your installing xCAT You'll want to review https://cwiki.apache.org/VCL/adding-support-for-partimage-and- partimag e-ng-to-xcat-2x-unofficial.html We added in VCL support for partimage - which is used to capture the disk images of end-user environments/desktops for windows and linux. When your adding nodes to vcl through the manage computers tool, make sure to choose xCAT 2.x . If your doing windows bare-metal, you'll also need to include sysprep and related mass storage drivers so it can be reloaded successfully. For sysprep review step 8 on this page: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/VCL/VCL+2.2.1+Management+N ode+Installation Hope this info helps, Aaron On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Dmitri Chebotarov dcheb...@gmu.edu wrote: Amit, Thanks a lot. On Feb 9, 2012, at 15:57 , Kumar, Amit H. wrote: Hi Dmitri, You general idea is correct to my best understanding. Install Path in the Edit management Node will be the path for xCAT(bare metal) image repository. In addition when you configure the Site table in xCAT you will set the installdir to point to the location where you will store your images. We have IBM E Blade Chassis with HS22 blade servers. Best, Amit -Original Message- From: dcheb...@gmu.edu [mailto:dcheb...@gmu.edu] Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 3:44 PM To: vcl-user@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: VCL and xCat Amit, I'm trying to get general idea about xCat/VCL : so, basically xCat needs to be installed and configured on VCL Mgm node(s) before it can be used with VCL, and I should be able to successfully provision xCat nodes/clients with different images. Once xCat is working then I can add bare-metal computers - blade with xCat 2.x engine. Does it sound right? How do you tell VCL where to get image files for xCat nodes - is it 'Install Path' setting under Management Nodes - Edit management node information? What kind of hardware do you have for xCat nodes? Are those IBM blade servers or/and PCs? Thanks. On Feb 9, 2012, at 15:16 , Kumar, Amit H. wrote: Hi, We do not need an additional/dedicated server to do both xCAT and VCL together, your management node can serve as your xCAT server. I would recommend getting xCAT to work by itself before using VCL to manage your images and guest OS. This has worked well for us so far. :Amit -Original Message- From: dcheb...@gmu.edu [mailto:dcheb...@gmu.edu] Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 3:03 PM To: vcl-user@incubator.apache.org Subject: VCL and xCat Hi All Anyone is using xCat with VCL? I have generic question about xCat and VCL - where do I start? Do I need working xCat environment before I can add it to VCL? Does xCat need dedicated server? Or does it run on the VCL management node? Are there any special hardware requirements for xCat clients? Thank you. Thank you. - Dmitri Chebotarov dcheb...@gmu.edu 703-993-6175 - Thank you. - Dmitri Chebotarov dcheb...@gmu.edu 703-993-6175 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPNDStAAoJEMRKpymufl8aAxkH/iCGHjBRUMR85l4+D3clzzem eb4+RtsjvqfnJO7IjjF3Ajs73labFWvoEgpJrbFous2v6ou/gNsUgB82hWicqNTm 5+ZKkdncM2qWl2QI1ED6kvZt0OHmG/cUbRk0XRlPSjf99dIYgjqPZBL4xFNje62X xzNNPCEC7S5lixouyUcFPh7KhVR+11zvZsliV19CYH6HqXLpSphRt/gN5HIK77gD
VCL and xCat
Hi All Anyone is using xCat with VCL? I have generic question about xCat and VCL - where do I start? Do I need working xCat environment before I can add it to VCL? Does xCat need dedicated server? Or does it run on the VCL management node? Are there any special hardware requirements for xCat clients? Thank you. signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail
Re: VCL and xCat
Amit, I'm trying to get general idea about xCat/VCL : so, basically xCat needs to be installed and configured on VCL Mgm node(s) before it can be used with VCL, and I should be able to successfully provision xCat nodes/clients with different images. Once xCat is working then I can add bare-metal computers - blade with xCat 2.x engine. Does it sound right? How do you tell VCL where to get image files for xCat nodes - is it 'Install Path' setting under Management Nodes - Edit management node information? What kind of hardware do you have for xCat nodes? Are those IBM blade servers or/and PCs? Thanks. On Feb 9, 2012, at 15:16 , Kumar, Amit H. wrote: Hi, We do not need an additional/dedicated server to do both xCAT and VCL together, your management node can serve as your xCAT server. I would recommend getting xCAT to work by itself before using VCL to manage your images and guest OS. This has worked well for us so far. :Amit -Original Message- From: dcheb...@gmu.edu [mailto:dcheb...@gmu.edu] Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 3:03 PM To: vcl-user@incubator.apache.org Subject: VCL and xCat Hi All Anyone is using xCat with VCL? I have generic question about xCat and VCL - where do I start? Do I need working xCat environment before I can add it to VCL? Does xCat need dedicated server? Or does it run on the VCL management node? Are there any special hardware requirements for xCat clients? Thank you. Thank you. - Dmitri Chebotarov dcheb...@gmu.edu 703-993-6175 - signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail
Re: VCL and xCat
Amit, Thanks a lot. On Feb 9, 2012, at 15:57 , Kumar, Amit H. wrote: Hi Dmitri, You general idea is correct to my best understanding. Install Path in the Edit management Node will be the path for xCAT(bare metal) image repository. In addition when you configure the Site table in xCAT you will set the installdir to point to the location where you will store your images. We have IBM E Blade Chassis with HS22 blade servers. Best, Amit -Original Message- From: dcheb...@gmu.edu [mailto:dcheb...@gmu.edu] Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 3:44 PM To: vcl-user@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: VCL and xCat Amit, I'm trying to get general idea about xCat/VCL : so, basically xCat needs to be installed and configured on VCL Mgm node(s) before it can be used with VCL, and I should be able to successfully provision xCat nodes/clients with different images. Once xCat is working then I can add bare-metal computers - blade with xCat 2.x engine. Does it sound right? How do you tell VCL where to get image files for xCat nodes - is it 'Install Path' setting under Management Nodes - Edit management node information? What kind of hardware do you have for xCat nodes? Are those IBM blade servers or/and PCs? Thanks. On Feb 9, 2012, at 15:16 , Kumar, Amit H. wrote: Hi, We do not need an additional/dedicated server to do both xCAT and VCL together, your management node can serve as your xCAT server. I would recommend getting xCAT to work by itself before using VCL to manage your images and guest OS. This has worked well for us so far. :Amit -Original Message- From: dcheb...@gmu.edu [mailto:dcheb...@gmu.edu] Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 3:03 PM To: vcl-user@incubator.apache.org Subject: VCL and xCat Hi All Anyone is using xCat with VCL? I have generic question about xCat and VCL - where do I start? Do I need working xCat environment before I can add it to VCL? Does xCat need dedicated server? Or does it run on the VCL management node? Are there any special hardware requirements for xCat clients? Thank you. Thank you. - Dmitri Chebotarov dcheb...@gmu.edu 703-993-6175 - Thank you. - Dmitri Chebotarov dcheb...@gmu.edu 703-993-6175 - signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail
Re: Resource Group Error
Al Take at look at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-456 You need to add $groupwasnone = 0; line to groups.php. Thanks. On Jan 3, 2012, at 11:28 , Evelio Quiros wrote: Hello, I am getting this error on the VCL web interface when I try to edit a resource group: Error encountered Unkown error type: [8] Undefined variable: groupwasnone Error at 511 in /var/www/html/vcl/.ht-inc/groups.php Any idea what this means ? Thanks, Al Quiros Thank you. - Dmitri Chebotarov dcheb...@gmu.edu 703-993-6175 - signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail
Re: Testing the VCL Frontend Code
Ben Could you please restart httpd service and try to access testsetup.php again? You probably installed all necessary PHP packages, but httpd task needs to restarted to re-read .conf files to include PHP. Thanks On Nov 29, 2011, at 16:06 , ben.m...@valpo.edu wrote: Hi, I'm having issues testing the VCL frontend code. I'm trying to open the testsetup.php file in firefox, but it Firefox is prompting to have me open or download the file. I am trying to open this up locally for now, but I don't know if I did something wrong when modifying conf.php or secrets.php, or if it's something with the server. If anyone has any insight, I'd appreciate it. Thanks, -- Benjamin B. Macy Valparaiso University Student Senate Junior Representative Student Alumni Association Sigma Phi Epsilon Electrical Engineering Student ben.m...@valpo.edu 616.648.3516 signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail
Re: Help or support
Juan Could you please check the following: - VMWARE host is added with following properties: State: vmhostinuse, Type: blade, Provisioning Engine: xCAT 2.x. You can check/change it under Manage Computers. - the VM you are trying to image (lets call it baseImage01) is added with following properties: State: available, Type: virtualmachine, Provisioning Engine: VMWare. - make sure that baseImage01 VM is assigned to VMWare host under Virtual Hosts, select your VM Host from the list and add baseImage01 to 'VMs assigned to host'; - from Linux server where you have VCLD make sure you can ssh to VMWare host using vcl.key: run 'ssh -i /etc/vcl/vcl.key vmwarehost' (I think name of the host in your case is u804vmsrv). You should login without a need to enter password. This implies that 'End Node SSH Identity Key Files:' is to /etc/vcl/vcl.key in management node configuration. - from Linux server where you have VCLD make sure you can ssh to baseImage01 VM using vcl.key: run 'ssh -i /etc/vcl/vcl.key baseImage01'. Once you checked/set all these, try to create image again. Thanks. On Nov 23, 2011, at 6:52 , Juanjo wrote: Many Thanks Josh and Juan Jose and others for your help, but I continue with problems to create image. I explain in below lines a little my problems. Josh Thompson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Juanjo, To have your system ready to capture your first base image, you need to have your vmhost and VMs added to VCL using the VCL website. The following page explains how to do that: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/VCL/VCL+2.2.1+-+Further+Steps+if+Using+VMware I already have done all of this page, but I continue with problems to create the image. Since you only have one vmhost server right now, you'll need to follow the sections titled Adding Individual VMware Servers, Adding Virtual Machines, and Assing a VM to a Virtual Host. Done. When creating your first base image, you don't use the VCL website; you use 'vcld -setup'. These are the instructions you should be using to create your initial base image: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/VCL/Create+a+Windows+Base+Image Until you have captured your first base image, you'll always receive the message You don't have access to any environments and, therefore, cannot make any reservations. on the New Reservations page because you don't have any images to have access to. I can launch the capture process with vlcd -setup, but when I have introduced all parameters and start the capture process I received some error messages that I show below: 2011-11-22 18:24:26|29632|1:1|image|Module.pm:new(200)|VCL::Module::Provisioning::VMware::VMware object created for computer VMXP1, address: 3484f58 2011-11-22 18:24:26|29632|1:1|image|VMware.pm:initialize(230)|initializing VCL::Module::Provisioning::VMware::VMware object |29632|1:1|image| WARNING |29632|1:1|image| 2011-11-22 18:24:26|29632|1:1|image|utils.pm:get_management_node_info(5966)|zero rows were returned from database select, image library functions will be disabled ... 2011-11-22 18:24:26|29632|1:1|image|VMware.pm:get_vmhost_datastructure(1190)|created DataStructure object for VM host: u804vmsrv 2011-11-22 18:24:26|29632|1:1|image|VMware.pm:initialize(249)|attempting to create OS object for the image currently loaded on the VM host: u804vmsrv |29632|1:1|image| image name: noimage |29632|1:1|image| OS module: VCL::Module::OS::Linux::UnixLab |29632|1:1|image| WARNING |29632|1:1|image| 2011-11-22 18:24:26|29632|1:1|image|utils.pm:get_management_node_info(5966)|zero rows were returned from database select, image library functions will be disabled ... 2011-11-22 18:24:27|29632|1:1|image|OS.pm:is_ssh_responding(401)|u804vmsrv is responding to SSH, port 22: open, port 24: closed 2011-11-22 18:24:27|29632|1:1|image|VMware.pm:initialize(254)|OS on VM host u804vmsrv will be controlled using a VCL::Module::OS::Linux::UnixLab OS object |29632|1:1|image| WARNING |29632|1:1|image| 2011-11-22 18:24:27|29632|1:1|image|utils.pm:get_management_node_info(5966)|zero rows were returned from database select, image library functions will be disabled ... 2011-11-22 18:24:27|29632|1:1|image|Module.pm:new(200)|VCL::Module::Provisioning::VMware::vSphere_SDK object created for computer VMXP1, address: 3c6e820 2011-11-22 18:24:27|29632|1:1|image|vSphere_SDK.pm:initialize(1826)|vSphere SDK for Perl does not appear to be installed on this managment node, unable to load VMware vSphere SDK Perl modules 2011-11-22 18:24:27|29632|1:1|image|VMware.pm:get_vmhost_api_object(1313)|API object could not be created: VCL::Module::Provisioning::VMware::vSphere_SDK |29632|1:1|image| WARNING |29632|1:1|image| 2011-11-22
Re: rdp file auto login
Gene, Username/password would be on your reservation page. Username is Admin, password is generated for each reservation and you need to type it manually when open RDP. Thanks. On Nov 22, 2011, at 12:32 , Gene Lui wrote: Hi there, I wonder if any of you bright individuals can help me out here with this wonderful project you got here. When I use the RDP file supplied on the vcl connection page (Windows 7 client) , I assume it will automatically supply the credentials to log into the remote desktop image (Windows 7 image). The problem is that it does not automatically logs in and it prompts for my password. Do I have this wrong and a password is needed to be manually entered? If not, how do I enable the auto login? I have tried changing group policy settings on the remote desktop host but nothing works. I appreciate any help anyone can give. Thanks, Gene Drexel University
Re: rdp file auto login
Gene I'm relatively new with VCL and I may be wrong. I could not find any options in preferences for RDP file to include password. Having password in RDP file would make it easier and if it's possible it would be great. I would like to have this option as well and will be looking into the code which generates a RDP file for new reservations. Thanks On Nov 22, 2011, at 12:58 , Gene Lui wrote: Thanks Dmitri, Wanted to confirm if its possible by using the rdp file, users can auto login with the mstsc (would be preferred over entering password manually). Thanks for such a quick reply and answer to my question. Take care, Gene Drexel University On Tue, 2011-11-22 at 12:47 -0500, Dmitri Chebotarov wrote: Gene, Username/password would be on your reservation page. Username is Admin, password is generated for each reservation and you need to type it manually when open RDP. Thanks. On Nov 22, 2011, at 12:32 , Gene Lui wrote: Hi there, I wonder if any of you bright individuals can help me out here with this wonderful project you got here. When I use the RDP file supplied on the vcl connection page (Windows 7 client) , I assume it will automatically supply the credentials to log into the remote desktop image (Windows 7 image). The problem is that it does not automatically logs in and it prompts for my password. Do I have this wrong and a password is needed to be manually entered? If not, how do I enable the auto login? I have tried changing group policy settings on the remote desktop host but nothing works. I appreciate any help anyone can give. Thanks, Gene Drexel University
Re: Linux base image on ESXi server?
Hi
After some progress yesterday I still got an error while creating an image.
The error was:
...
2011-11-02
13:40:38|6392|14:3|image|vSphere_SDK.pm:_get_file_info(2005)|searching for
matching file paths: base directory path: '[datastore1]
vmwarelinux-238-v0', search pattern: 'vmwarelinux-238-v0.vmdk'
2011-11-02
13:40:40|6392|14:3|image|vSphere_SDK.pm:_get_file_info(2016)|base directory
does not exist: '[datastore1] vmwarelinux-238-v0'
2011-11-02
13:40:40|6392|14:3|image|vSphere_SDK.pm:find_files(1753)|matching file
count: 0
2011-11-02 13:40:40|6392|14:3|image|vSphere_SDK.pm:file_exists(1625)|file
does not exist: [datastore1] vmwarelinux-238-v0/vmwarelinux-238-v0.vmdk
2011-11-02 13:40:40|6392|14:3|image|VMware.pm:does_image_exist(3915)|image
does not exist in the non-persistent directory on the VM host
|6392|14:3|image| WARNING
|6392|14:3|image| 2011-11-02
13:40:40|6392|14:3|image|VMware.pm:_get_datastore_name(5848)|unable to
determine datastore name from path: '/vclfile', path does not begin with
any of the datastore paths:
|6392|14:3|image| '[datastore1]'
|6392|14:3|image| '/vmfs/volumes/datastore1'
|6392|14:3|image| '/vmfs/volumes/4e72606b-01b8dc93-5cdb-0023aeae26d2'
...
I'll figure out how to fix it, but have a related questions.
Creating the image failed and during the process vm-00 was put in 'maintains'
mode (stateid=10) and it stays in this mode after failure. It's not
possible to change the mode to 'available' (get the message - Virtual
machines can only be added in the maintenance state.) via web portal. Looks
like I need to re-add vm-00 (have to use 'Add multiple' option) or to
change stateid value in vcl.computer : UPDATE `vcl`.`computer` SET
`stateid` = '2' WHERE `computer`.`id` =36
Is it OK to do it this way? Or am I missing something?
Thanks.
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Dmitri Chebotarov 4dim...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi
I got some progress on this issue. I tried to run vmware-cmd from
vcl-server and got the same error - Server version unavailable at ,
which could mean SSL certificate is missing. Then found this post
http://communities.vmware.com/message/1347703 and added these two lines
to /usr/local/vcl/lib/VCL/Module/Provisioning/VMware/vSphere_SDK.pm after
line 62
$ENV{SSL_verify_mode} = 0x00;
$ENV{PERL_LWP_SSL_VERIFY_HOSTNAME} = 0;
This change allowed image creation to start successfully. VCLD connects to
ESXi server OK and gets server version. It doesn't use ssh keys from
/etc/vcl/vcl.key, but username/password configured in the profile.
Thanks.
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Dmitri Chebotarov 4dim...@gmail.comwrote:
Hello
Got this link from one of the posts on this elist -
https://sites.google.com/a/ncsu.edu/vcl-bootcamp/. I hope it helps me
understand the VCL better...
Can you recommend anything else to read about Apache VCL, besides
https://cwiki.apache.org/VCL/ ?
Thanks.
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Dmitri Chebotarov 4dim...@gmail.comwrote:
Hi All
I'm stuck on creating a base image (Linux) for newly deployed Apache VCL
system and looking for help...
This is the closes I got so far to a working system.
I'm using ESXi 4.1 (60 days evaluation), ssh is enabled, ESXi server
name is esxiServer01, added to the host file on VCL management server.
Linux server being imaged is vm-00 running on esxiServer01. Added to the
host file as well on VCL server. I can ping both and ssh -i key host works.
Below is the full log for the process. These lines puzzle me:
2011-11-01
08:40:59|16965|20:20|image|OS.pm:is_ssh_responding(405)|esxiServer01 is NOT
responding to SSH, SSH command failed, port 22: open, port 24: closed
2011-11-01 08:40:59|16965|20:20|image|VMware.pm:initialize(257)|unable
to control OS of VM host esxiServer01 using VCL::Module::OS::Linux::UnixLab
OS object because VM host is not responding to SSH
since I can ping the VM host and 'ssh -i /etc/vcl/vcl.key esxiServer01'
works fine.
Also all http(s) links work fine when I access them from management
server.
Is there a way to create and register images manually? Can I use Veeam
FastSCP or similar software to copy VMs to VCL server and register them? If
there is way to do so, anyone has a link?
I would appreciate any help. Thank you.
Here is the full log file for the imaging process:
VCL::image object could not be created and initialized
time: 2011-11-01 08:40:59
caller: vcld:make_new_child(571)
( 0) vcld, make_new_child (line: 571)
(-1) vcld, main (line: 346)
management node: vcl-01
reservation PID: 16965
parent vcld PID: 5086
request ID: 20
reservation ID: 20
request state/laststate: image/image
request start time: 2011-11-01 08:40:49
request end time: 2011-11-01 09:40:49
for imaging: no
log ID: none
computer: vm-00
computer id: 23
computer type: virtualmachine
computer eth0 MAC
Re: Linux base image on ESXi server?
Hi
I got some progress on this issue. I tried to run vmware-cmd from
vcl-server and got the same error - Server version unavailable at , which
could mean SSL certificate is missing. Then found this post
http://communities.vmware.com/message/1347703 and added these two lines to
/usr/local/vcl/lib/VCL/Module/Provisioning/VMware/vSphere_SDK.pm after line
62
$ENV{SSL_verify_mode} = 0x00;
$ENV{PERL_LWP_SSL_VERIFY_HOSTNAME} = 0;
This change allowed image creation to start successfully. VCLD connects to
ESXi server OK and gets server version. It doesn't use ssh keys from
/etc/vcl/vcl.key, but username/password configured in the profile.
Thanks.
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Dmitri Chebotarov 4dim...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello
Got this link from one of the posts on this elist -
https://sites.google.com/a/ncsu.edu/vcl-bootcamp/. I hope it helps me
understand the VCL better...
Can you recommend anything else to read about Apache VCL, besides
https://cwiki.apache.org/VCL/ ?
Thanks.
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Dmitri Chebotarov 4dim...@gmail.comwrote:
Hi All
I'm stuck on creating a base image (Linux) for newly deployed Apache VCL
system and looking for help...
This is the closes I got so far to a working system.
I'm using ESXi 4.1 (60 days evaluation), ssh is enabled, ESXi server name
is esxiServer01, added to the host file on VCL management server. Linux
server being imaged is vm-00 running on esxiServer01. Added to the host
file as well on VCL server. I can ping both and ssh -i key host works.
Below is the full log for the process. These lines puzzle me:
2011-11-01
08:40:59|16965|20:20|image|OS.pm:is_ssh_responding(405)|esxiServer01 is NOT
responding to SSH, SSH command failed, port 22: open, port 24: closed
2011-11-01 08:40:59|16965|20:20|image|VMware.pm:initialize(257)|unable to
control OS of VM host esxiServer01 using VCL::Module::OS::Linux::UnixLab OS
object because VM host is not responding to SSH
since I can ping the VM host and 'ssh -i /etc/vcl/vcl.key esxiServer01'
works fine.
Also all http(s) links work fine when I access them from management
server.
Is there a way to create and register images manually? Can I use Veeam
FastSCP or similar software to copy VMs to VCL server and register them? If
there is way to do so, anyone has a link?
I would appreciate any help. Thank you.
Here is the full log file for the imaging process:
VCL::image object could not be created and initialized
time: 2011-11-01 08:40:59
caller: vcld:make_new_child(571)
( 0) vcld, make_new_child (line: 571)
(-1) vcld, main (line: 346)
management node: vcl-01
reservation PID: 16965
parent vcld PID: 5086
request ID: 20
reservation ID: 20
request state/laststate: image/image
request start time: 2011-11-01 08:40:49
request end time: 2011-11-01 09:40:49
for imaging: no
log ID: none
computer: vm-00
computer id: 23
computer type: virtualmachine
computer eth0 MAC address: undefined
computer eth1 MAC address: undefined
computer private IP address: 192.168.200.15
computer public IP address: 192.168.200.15
computer in block allocation: no
provisioning module: VCL::Module::Provisioning::VMware::VMware
vm host: esxiServer01
vm host ID: 3
vm host computer ID: 11
vm profile: VMware ESX - local storage
vm profile VM path: /vmfs/volumes/4e72606b-01b8dc93-5cdb-0023aeae26d2/
vm profile repository path: 0
vm profile datastore path:
/vmfs/volumes/4e72606b-01b8dc93-5cdb-0023aeae26d2/
vm profile disk type: localdisk
image: vmwarelinux-linuximage0128-v0
image display name: linux-image-01
image ID: 28
image revision ID: 28
image size: 1450 MB
use Sysprep: yes
root access: yes
image owner ID: 1
image owner affiliation: Local
image revision date created: 2011-11-01 08:40:49
image revision production: yes
OS module: VCL::Module::OS::Linux
user: admin
user name: vcl admin
user ID: 1
user affiliation: Local
RECENT LOG ENTRIES FOR THIS PROCESS:
2011-11-01
08:40:51|16965|20:20|image|DataStructure.pm:_automethod(834)|data structure
updated: $self-request_data-{reservation}{0}{computer}{IPaddress}
|16965|20:20|image| computer_ip_address = 127.0.0.1
2011-11-01
08:40:51|16965|20:20|image|Module.pm:create_mn_os_object(366)|VCL::Module::OS::Linux::ManagementNode
OS object created, address: 1b2415c0
2011-11-01 08:40:51|16965|20:20|image|Module.pm:new(192)|VCL::image
object created for state image, address: 1b03b4c0
2011-11-01 08:40:51|16965|20:20|image|State.pm:initialize(86)|obtained a
database handle for this state process, stored as $ENV{dbh}
2011-11-01 08:40:51|16965|20:20|image|State.pm:check_image_os(762)|no
corrections need to be made to image OS: vmwarelinux
2011-11-01
08:40:51|16965|20:20|image
Linux base image on ESXi server?
Hi All
I'm stuck on creating a base image (Linux) for newly deployed Apache VCL
system and looking for help...
This is the closes I got so far to a working system.
I'm using ESXi 4.1 (60 days evaluation), ssh is enabled, ESXi server name
is esxiServer01, added to the host file on VCL management server. Linux
server being imaged is vm-00 running on esxiServer01. Added to the host
file as well on VCL server. I can ping both and ssh -i key host works.
Below is the full log for the process. These lines puzzle me:
2011-11-01
08:40:59|16965|20:20|image|OS.pm:is_ssh_responding(405)|esxiServer01 is NOT
responding to SSH, SSH command failed, port 22: open, port 24: closed
2011-11-01 08:40:59|16965|20:20|image|VMware.pm:initialize(257)|unable to
control OS of VM host esxiServer01 using VCL::Module::OS::Linux::UnixLab OS
object because VM host is not responding to SSH
since I can ping the VM host and 'ssh -i /etc/vcl/vcl.key esxiServer01'
works fine.
Also all http(s) links work fine when I access them from management server.
Is there a way to create and register images manually? Can I use Veeam
FastSCP or similar software to copy VMs to VCL server and register them? If
there is way to do so, anyone has a link?
I would appreciate any help. Thank you.
Here is the full log file for the imaging process:
VCL::image object could not be created and initialized
time: 2011-11-01 08:40:59
caller: vcld:make_new_child(571)
( 0) vcld, make_new_child (line: 571)
(-1) vcld, main (line: 346)
management node: vcl-01
reservation PID: 16965
parent vcld PID: 5086
request ID: 20
reservation ID: 20
request state/laststate: image/image
request start time: 2011-11-01 08:40:49
request end time: 2011-11-01 09:40:49
for imaging: no
log ID: none
computer: vm-00
computer id: 23
computer type: virtualmachine
computer eth0 MAC address: undefined
computer eth1 MAC address: undefined
computer private IP address: 192.168.200.15
computer public IP address: 192.168.200.15
computer in block allocation: no
provisioning module: VCL::Module::Provisioning::VMware::VMware
vm host: esxiServer01
vm host ID: 3
vm host computer ID: 11
vm profile: VMware ESX - local storage
vm profile VM path: /vmfs/volumes/4e72606b-01b8dc93-5cdb-0023aeae26d2/
vm profile repository path: 0
vm profile datastore path:
/vmfs/volumes/4e72606b-01b8dc93-5cdb-0023aeae26d2/
vm profile disk type: localdisk
image: vmwarelinux-linuximage0128-v0
image display name: linux-image-01
image ID: 28
image revision ID: 28
image size: 1450 MB
use Sysprep: yes
root access: yes
image owner ID: 1
image owner affiliation: Local
image revision date created: 2011-11-01 08:40:49
image revision production: yes
OS module: VCL::Module::OS::Linux
user: admin
user name: vcl admin
user ID: 1
user affiliation: Local
RECENT LOG ENTRIES FOR THIS PROCESS:
2011-11-01
08:40:51|16965|20:20|image|DataStructure.pm:_automethod(834)|data structure
updated: $self-request_data-{reservation}{0}{computer}{IPaddress}
|16965|20:20|image| computer_ip_address = 127.0.0.1
2011-11-01
08:40:51|16965|20:20|image|Module.pm:create_mn_os_object(366)|VCL::Module::OS::Linux::ManagementNode
OS object created, address: 1b2415c0
2011-11-01 08:40:51|16965|20:20|image|Module.pm:new(192)|VCL::image object
created for state image, address: 1b03b4c0
2011-11-01 08:40:51|16965|20:20|image|State.pm:initialize(86)|obtained a
database handle for this state process, stored as $ENV{dbh}
2011-11-01 08:40:51|16965|20:20|image|State.pm:check_image_os(762)|no
corrections need to be made to image OS: vmwarelinux
2011-11-01
08:40:51|16965|20:20|image|DataStructure.pm:is_parent_reservation(991)|returning
true: parent reservation ID for this request: 20
2011-11-01
08:40:51|16965|20:20|image|utils.pm:rename_vcld_process(7098)|reservation
count: 1
2011-11-01
08:40:51|16965|20:20|image|utils.pm:rename_vcld_process(7117)|PARENTIMAGE:
1
2011-11-01
08:40:51|16965|20:20|image|utils.pm:rename_vcld_process(7118)|SUBIMAGE:
0
2011-11-01 08:40:51|16965|20:20|image|utils.pm:rename_vcld_process(7136)|renamed
process to 'vcld 20:20 image vm-00esxiServer01
vmwarelinux-linuximage0128-v0 admin'
2011-11-01
08:40:51|16965|20:20|image|DataStructure.pm:is_parent_reservation(991)|returning
true: parent reservation ID for this request: 20
2011-11-01
08:40:51|16965|20:20|image|DataStructure.pm:is_parent_reservation(991)|returning
true: parent reservation ID for this request: 20
2011-11-01
08:40:51|16965|20:20|image|Module.pm:create_os_object(298)|VCL::Module::OS::Linux
module loaded
2011-11-01
08:40:51|16965|20:20|image|Module.pm:create_mn_os_object(335)|management
node OS object has already been created, address: 1b2415c0, returning 1
2011-11-01
08:40:51|16965|20:20|image|Module.pm:new(196)|VCL::Module::OS::Linux object
created for image
