setting up an array of vmware machines as part of a jenkins job

2012-09-13 Thread Chris Withers
Hi All, I want to CI test a script which sets up an array of machines in a new environment. This script needs to work from bare metal machines. The only way I can think to do this is to have those jobs clone a blank (OS installed but nothing else) set of VMs and then run the job against

Re: setting up an array of vmware machines as part of a jenkins job

2012-09-13 Thread Jason Swager
We do something similar to this with the vSphere Cloud Plugin But instead of cloning a new VM (which the plugin does not do), we revert a VM to a previously clean state. The clean state already has the Jenkins slave agent setup and automatically connecting when the VM starts. So when