Re: [openstack-dev] [vmware] Canonical list of os types
On 30/08/14 03:45, Steve Gordon wrote: - Original Message - From: Matthew Booth mbo...@redhat.com On 14/08/14 12:41, Steve Gordon wrote: - Original Message - From: Matthew Booth mbo...@redhat.com To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org I've just spent the best part of a day tracking down why instance creation was failing on a particular setup. The error message from CreateVM_Task was: 'A specified parameter was not correct'. After discounting a great many possibilities, I finally discovered that the problem was guestId, which was being set to 'CirrosGuest'. Unusually, the vSphere API docs don't contain a list of valid values for that field. Given the unhelpfulness of the error message, it might be worthwhile validating that field (which we get from glance) and displaying an appropriate warning. Does anybody have a canonical list of valid values? Thanks, Matt I found a page [1] linked from the Grizzly edition of the compute guide [2] which has since been superseded. The content that would appear to have replaced it in more recent versions of the documentation suite [3] does not appear to contain such a link though. If a link to a more formal list is available it would be great to get this in the documentation. I just extracted a list of 126 os types from the ESX 5.5u1 installation iso. While this isn't ideal documentation, I'm fairly sure it will be accurate :) Matt Hi Matt, Any chance you can provide this list? Would be good to get into the configuration reference. I posted it here for review: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/114529/ Matt -- Matthew Booth Red Hat Engineering, Virtualisation Team Phone: +442070094448 (UK) GPG ID: D33C3490 GPG FPR: 3733 612D 2D05 5458 8A8A 1600 3441 EA19 D33C 3490 ___ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
Re: [openstack-dev] [vmware] Canonical list of os types
- Original Message - From: Matthew Booth mbo...@redhat.com On 14/08/14 12:41, Steve Gordon wrote: - Original Message - From: Matthew Booth mbo...@redhat.com To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org I've just spent the best part of a day tracking down why instance creation was failing on a particular setup. The error message from CreateVM_Task was: 'A specified parameter was not correct'. After discounting a great many possibilities, I finally discovered that the problem was guestId, which was being set to 'CirrosGuest'. Unusually, the vSphere API docs don't contain a list of valid values for that field. Given the unhelpfulness of the error message, it might be worthwhile validating that field (which we get from glance) and displaying an appropriate warning. Does anybody have a canonical list of valid values? Thanks, Matt I found a page [1] linked from the Grizzly edition of the compute guide [2] which has since been superseded. The content that would appear to have replaced it in more recent versions of the documentation suite [3] does not appear to contain such a link though. If a link to a more formal list is available it would be great to get this in the documentation. I just extracted a list of 126 os types from the ESX 5.5u1 installation iso. While this isn't ideal documentation, I'm fairly sure it will be accurate :) Matt Hi Matt, Any chance you can provide this list? Would be good to get into the configuration reference. Thanks, Steve ___ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
Re: [openstack-dev] [vmware] Canonical list of os types
Here you are: I think we need update this into the OpenStack VMware support guide. GuestId | Retail Name + asianux3_64Guest | Asianux Server 3 (64 bit) + asianux3Guest | Asianux Server 3 + asianux4_64Guest | Asianux Server 4 (64 bit) + asianux4Guest | Asianux Server 4 + darwin64Guest | Darwin 64 bit + darwinGuest | Darwin + debian4_64Guest | Debian GNU/Linux 4 (64 bit) + debian4Guest | Debian GNU/Linux 4 + debian5_64Guest | Debian GNU/Linux 5 (64 bit) + debian5Guest | Debian GNU/Linux 5 + dosGuest | MS-DOS + freebsd64Guest| FreeBSD x64 + freebsdGuest | FreeBSD + mandrivaGuest | Mandriva Linux + netware4Guest | Novell NetWare 4 + netware5Guest | Novell NetWare 5.1 + netware6Guest | Novell NetWare 6.x + nld9Guest | Novell Linux Desktop 9 + oesGuest | Open Enterprise Server + openServer5Guest | SCO OpenServer 5 + openServer6Guest | SCO OpenServer 6 + os2Guest
Re: [openstack-dev] [vmware] Canonical list of os types
- Original Message - From: Matthew Booth mbo...@redhat.com To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org I've just spent the best part of a day tracking down why instance creation was failing on a particular setup. The error message from CreateVM_Task was: 'A specified parameter was not correct'. After discounting a great many possibilities, I finally discovered that the problem was guestId, which was being set to 'CirrosGuest'. Unusually, the vSphere API docs don't contain a list of valid values for that field. Given the unhelpfulness of the error message, it might be worthwhile validating that field (which we get from glance) and displaying an appropriate warning. Does anybody have a canonical list of valid values? Thanks, Matt I found a page [1] linked from the Grizzly edition of the compute guide [2] which has since been superseded. The content that would appear to have replaced it in more recent versions of the documentation suite [3] does not appear to contain such a link though. If a link to a more formal list is available it would be great to get this in the documentation. Thanks, Steve [1] http://www.thinkvirt.com/?q=node/181 [2] http://docs.openstack.org/grizzly/openstack-compute/admin/content/image-metadata.html [3] http://docs.openstack.org/icehouse/config-reference/content/vmware.html ___ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
