VCL Appliance
I have been unable to download the VCL appliance. The torrent appears to not have any seeders and the http link appears to be broken. How do I download it? -- Mark Gardner --
Re: VCL Appliance
The http link is not broken, just horribly slow. At the current rate, it will take 3-4 days to download it. Does anyone have a faster copy? Mark On 4/6/09, Mark Gardner m...@vt.edu wrote: I have been unable to download the VCL appliance. The torrent appears to not have any seeders and the http link appears to be broken. How do I download it? -- Mark Gardner -- -- Mark Gardner --
Re: VCL Appliance
I'm having the same problem -- no seeds, and the http direct download was broken when I tried it several days in a row. I emailed Andy Rindos, who forwarded my issue report to Brian Bouterse. This was on Apr 2, and I haven't heard any updates, since. Cheers, Dave -- David Chin, Ph.D. chi...@wfu.edu High Performance Computing Systems Analyst Office: 336-758-2964Wake Forest University Mobile: 336-608-0793Winston-Salem, NC Email-to-txt: 3066080...@mms.att.net Google Talk: chindw@gmail.com On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 10:01, Mark Gardner m...@vt.edu wrote: The http link is not broken, just horribly slow. At the current rate, it will take 3-4 days to download it. Does anyone have a faster copy? Mark On 4/6/09, Mark Gardner m...@vt.edu wrote: I have been unable to download the VCL appliance. The torrent appears to not have any seeders and the http link appears to be broken. How do I download it? -- Mark Gardner -- -- Mark Gardner --
Re: VCL Appliance
I'm releasing a 3GB (ESX provisioning only) VCL VM this afternoon. I'm finishing the instructions now before I post it. Best, Brian Brian Bouterse Secure Open Systems Initiative 919.698.8796 On Apr 7, 2009, at 10:01 AM, Mark Gardner wrote: The http link is not broken, just horribly slow. At the current rate, it will take 3-4 days to download it. Does anyone have a faster copy? Mark On 4/6/09, Mark Gardner m...@vt.edu wrote: I have been unable to download the VCL appliance. The torrent appears to not have any seeders and the http link appears to be broken. How do I download it? -- Mark Gardner -- -- Mark Gardner --
Re: VCL Appliance
Where is the download originiating from ? I assume this is not a build of VCL made from the Incubator since we have not released one yet. Is this from NCSU ? On Apr 6, 2009, at 4:40 PM, Mark Gardner wrote: I have been unable to download the VCL appliance. The torrent appears to not have any seeders and the http link appears to be broken. How do I download it? -- Mark Gardner --
Re: VCL Appliance
http://www.ibiblio.org/vclvm/ -- David Chin, Ph.D. chi...@wfu.edu High Performance Computing Systems Analyst Office: 336-758-2964Wake Forest University Mobile: 336-608-0793Winston-Salem, NC Email-to-txt: 3066080...@mms.att.net Google Talk: chindw@gmail.com On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 12:24, Matt Hogstrom m...@hogstrom.org wrote: Where is the download originiating from ? I assume this is not a build of VCL made from the Incubator since we have not released one yet. Is this from NCSU ? On Apr 6, 2009, at 4:40 PM, Mark Gardner wrote: I have been unable to download the VCL appliance. The torrent appears to not have any seeders and the http link appears to be broken. How do I download it? -- Mark Gardner --
Re: Apache Board Report Due
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/ReportingSchedule and http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/FrontPage I didn't think our report is due until May 13th. Did I miss something? Thanks for bringing it up. Josh On Wednesday April 08, 2009, Matt Hogstrom wrote: Any volunteers to bring this together ? - -- - --- Josh Thompson Systems Programmer Virtual Computing Lab (VCL) North Carolina State University josh_thomp...@ncsu.edu 919-515-5323 my GPG/PGP key can be found at pgp.mit.edu -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFJ3NfZV/LQcNdtPQMRAhGOAJ9QVJMb6jWgQvVuDMhIPlHyvweudQCfTzfV IUDfDl0Bg3c/zNz+6zTM67U= =yPkd -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: vmprofile and vmtype tables in vcl.sql
Yes, one of the two vmwareGSX and vmwarefreeserver entries in the vmtype table should be removed because they are redundant. Speaking of redundancy in the vmtype table vcl.sql file, I'm confused about why there are independent entries for ESX and ESX 3i. The esx.pm provisioning module uses the VMware API (http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/sdk_pubs.html ) which is designed by VMware to be identical with ESX and ESX 3i. This way, folks like us don't have to implement custom code for one ESX vs ESX 3i. Because of this, does it even matter which vmprofile.vmtypeid was added to the vcl.sql file? What do you think? Given that VCL can't deploy ESX 3i (the free version), I propose VCL shouldn't mess with the 3i hypervisors until this can be revisited as a larger issue. As a fix, how about if we set the vmprofile.imageid to 4 (No Image) because of this? What do you think? Best, Brian Brian Bouterse Secure Open Systems Initiative 919.698.8796 On Apr 8, 2009, at 11:46 AM, Josh Thompson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian's commit to the vcl.sql file highlighted an issue to me. The vmprofile table includes an imageid field. Even though we don't ship any images, we do ship entries in the image table to serve as examples. In our documentation, we need to have one of two things: 1) tell users how to create the images that correspond with the entries we ship in the image table or 2) tell users that after they've created their own VM host server images and added them to the image table, they need to update the vmprofile through the web interface to assign the correct image to the profile The vmtype table has both vmwareGSX and vmwarefreeserver, which are the same thing. Can we remove one of them? Brian: For the VMware ESX SAN vmprofile entry you added, you have vmtypeid set to 5 which is vmwareESX3. Should that have been 6 which is vmwareESXi instead? (and maybe vmwareESXi should be vmware ESX3i?). Also, you have imageid set to 9 which is VMware ESX 3.5 standard server. There is no entry in the image table for an ESX 3i server, but given the above issue, there's really no image that would correspond to an entry for it in the image table anyway; so, it doesn't really matter that much. Josh - -- - --- Josh Thompson Systems Programmer Virtual Computing Lab (VCL) North Carolina State University josh_thomp...@ncsu.edu 919-515-5323 my GPG/PGP key can be found at pgp.mit.edu -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFJ3MbLV/LQcNdtPQMRAusZAJoDyLJx68lrr0L5d7C7CoITH3jYoQCfYKKV kzNCRfCzSwHSMfIrMrxt0JU= =uVO6 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: vmprofile and vmtype tables in vcl.sql
I don't think I've seen the vmwareGSX name used in a while at the vmware sites, so we could just drop that entry. Just need to double check the code first to see if it matters. Speaking of redundancy in the vmtype table vcl.sql file, I'm confused about why there are independent entries for ESX and ESX 3i. The esx.pm provisioning module uses the VMware API (http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/sdk_pubs.html) which is designed by VMware to be identical with ESX and ESX 3i. This way, folks like us don't have to implement custom code for one ESX vs ESX 3i. Because of this, does it even matter which vmprofile.vmtypeid was added to the vcl.sql file? What do you think? The reason is to separate ESX standard server and ESXi. So maybe ESX3 gets renamed to ESX standard Server. The vmware.pm module supports both vmware Free Server and ESX Standard Server using the 'vmware-cmd' cmd via ssh on the host server. ESX3i is only cmdline managed by the vmware-tools api - right? Ultimately I'm not sure how much the vmtype table will matter in the long-run. Since the computer.privisioingid, this Given that VCL can't deploy ESX 3i (the free version), I propose VCL shouldn't mess with the 3i hypervisors until this can be revisited as a Can ESX3i be installed via kiskstart? If so then it can be installed using the xcat provisioning module, as long as the hardware is supported and one has xCAT setup on their management node. Aaron
Re: vmprofile and vmtype tables in vcl.sql
doh - hit send too soon... I don't think I've seen the vmwareGSX name used in a while at the vmware sites, so we could just drop that entry. Just need to double check the code first to see if it matters. Speaking of redundancy in the vmtype table vcl.sql file, I'm confused about why there are independent entries for ESX and ESX 3i. The esx.pm provisioning module uses the VMware API (http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/sdk_pubs.html) which is designed by VMware to be identical with ESX and ESX 3i. This way, folks like us don't have to implement custom code for one ESX vs ESX 3i. Because of this, does it even matter which vmprofile.vmtypeid was added to the vcl.sql file? What do you think? The reason is to separate ESX standard server and ESXi. So maybe ESX3 gets renamed to ESX standard Server. The vmware.pm module supports both vmware Free Server and ESX Standard Server using the 'vmware-cmd' cmd via ssh on the host server. ESX3i is only cmdline managed by the vmware-tools api - right? Ultimately I'm not sure how much the vmtype table will matter in the long-run. Since the computer.privisioingid is being set to which provisioning module to use. Given that VCL can't deploy ESX 3i (the free version), I propose VCL shouldn't mess with the 3i hypervisors until this can be revisited as a Can ESX3i be installed via kiskstart? If so then it can be installed using the xcat provisioning module, as long as the hardware is supported and one has xCAT setup on their management node. Aaron
xp image power on fail
I am sorry for the naive question to come, but we figured out why our Windows XPs VMs are not powering on. In the deployed vmx file on ESXi, esx3-windowsxp-v0.vmx, memsize = 0: !/usr/bin/vmware config.version = 8 virtualHW.version = 4 memsize = 0 displayName = windowsxp-bl1 guestOS = other deleted remaining This causes VMware ESXi to panic the VM with an ASSERT failure. Our master configuration file shows it being 512 MB (memsize = 512), and the slots appear to be configured for 512 MB as well. I suspect that memsize is not getting initialized, rather than overwritten, but I cannot trace where the object that is being given to esx.pm is originally generated. Perhaps in the reservation? ThanksWayne
Re: Much Improved VCL Virtual Appliance (VCL 2.1 unofficial RC) Released
Hi, Thank you for your greate help ! According to the email, this release does not support the deployment to the bare metal images. Then how could i make it ? Will you give some direction? Or is there any higher release version recently ? Thanks again ! 2009/4/9 Brian Bouterse bmbou...@ncsu.edu I've finished building the new version of the VCL VM appliance which is ready to deploy virtual machines onto ESX and ESX 3i hypervisors. This VM does not contain xcat and cannot deploy bare metal images or vmware-server images. The announcement is happening on this list because this VM appliance should lower the barrier to working with VCL within this community. Just to be clear, this VM is not being released by Apache. The major improvements include: The entire VM is only 3.1GB so it should be easy for folks to download The setup has been greatly simplified from the older and deprecated version hosted at the http://www.ibiblio.org/vclvm/ site The VM comes with the ESX/ESX 3i provisioning module pre-installed and ready to use To get started working with this VM, you will need: At least one ESX or ESX 3i hypervisor Some form of NFS storage which can also be SSH'd into. A good example of this is a simple Linux box acting as an NFS server. The link to the instructions (which include a VM download link) are located below. These instructions are on wiki ... if you use them, and find improvements, please update the documentation! https://wiki.oscr.ncsu.edu/wiki/index.php/The_VCL_2.1_Virtual_Appliance Best, Brian Brian Bouterse Secure Open Systems Initiative 919.698.8796 -- Yang Jie（杨杰） Team of MRMSS, Xi'an Jiaotong University Department of Computer Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University TEL: +8613468883723;029-82665263 EXT.24 MSN: xtyangjie2...@yahoo.com.cn E-mail: xtyang...@gmail.com
