Solairs 10 Issues

2010-03-06 Thread Alexander Patterson
Hello I having a problem trying to even boot Solaris 10 with Vmware Server 1.9 The VMware won't even open it, the one on the blade gives me memeory dump errors. I can not load failsafe I can load into command, and even If I try to boot off CD I get the same error. Any Ideas I have Vmware Server

Re: Solairs 10 Issues

2010-03-06 Thread Alexander Patterson
> Hello > > I having a problem trying to even boot Solaris 10 with Vmware Server 1.9 > > The VMware won't even open it, the one on the blade gives me memeory dump > errors. I can not load failsafe > I can load into command, and even If I try to boot off CD I get the same > error. > > Any Ideas > >

Solairs 10 Issues

2010-03-06 Thread Alexander Patterson
Hello I having a problem trying to even boot Solaris 10 with Vmware Server 1.9 The VMware won't even open it, the one on the blade gives me memeory dump errors. I can not load failsafe I can load into command, and even If I try to boot off CD I get the same error. Any Ideas I have Vmware Server

Windows XP 64 Bit NETWORK Card Issues

2010-03-24 Thread Alexander Patterson
Hello, Just wanted to know with the VCL system, how are you getting Windows XP 64 bit to work correctly. When I load up bridged network drivers I get Intel 1000 Drivers installed because those are the 64 Bit Drivers. The VMX file says it's Windows XP 64 Bit When I go to load up my images they will

Printer Drivers not installing

2010-04-01 Thread Alexander Patterson
Hello Anyone have a fix on why IP printing with Windows 7 RDP is not working correctly. Is there a way to have the IP printer drives that are installed on a Windows 7 machines that are connecting to a XP Vmware Image will be able to pull the drivers and be able to use IP printing with RDP? The l

CentOS 5.4 Linux Vmware guest accounts won't release

2010-04-03 Thread Alexander Patterson
Hello, We have our CentOS 5.4 Linux Image. It works just fine when we load it in the VCL system We are able to log in and use the image, in our current vmware guest accounts. The problem we are having with our system is that when another image like a Windows Based images tries to reload over the c

Connecting to Linux and Solaris remotely with VCL?

2010-04-09 Thread Alexander Patterson
Hello, I wanted to know how everyone else is connecting to there local Linux or Solaris Labs with VCL? We have a few labs that here on campus that are running Linux and Solaris. We have students here who connect to these labs via remote. We want to move these computers to a rack and only allow use

Image failing at resource ready

2010-05-01 Thread Alexander Patterson
Hello, I am getting an error one one of my new Images that was built in Vmware Server. I had to built it in Vmware Server due to it's Size. 19.1 GB The Software is Adobe Creative Suite 4 Web Premium, It's Windows XP SP3 Firewall is off SingleCore Image, i have built my other 30 that work the sam

CentOS 5.5 Image creation fail

2010-07-08 Thread Alexander Patterson
Hello All, I'm having an issue with my Centos 5.5. I have built it just as instructed in the boot camp. I'm having an issue with the Image Creation. I can load up the image and use it just fine. I'm having a problem creating an image off of it. I did turn of sysprep when I was asked, but anyways

Re: CentOS 5.5 Image creation fail

2010-07-09 Thread Alexander Patterson
evious name= $oldname"); >                                                } >                                        } > > > Since the original name is  something like vmwareCentos5.582-v0-s001.vmdk > > $oldname never gets set. > > But it looks like it did copy the vm

Re: CentOS 5.5 Image creation fail

2010-07-09 Thread Alexander Patterson
Hello Sorry I should of waited Both of them create now. :) Thanks for the fix -Alex On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Alexander Patterson wrote: > Hello > > The files were copied and the image is there but it shows up as a > deleted image in my image repository. > > I can se

Image Failing Error

2010-08-26 Thread Alexander Patterson
Hello, I'm getting this error with my Office 2010 Image that was working before and now it's failing at resources ready. Anyways here is the error log. e operation completed successfully The following command was not found: advfirewall firewall delete rule name=all dir=in protocol=TCP localport

Re: Image Failing Error

2010-08-27 Thread Alexander Patterson
Windows 5.x, netsh.exe will return > "The following command was not found: ...". > > Check if your image has the correct OSid value in the VCL database > (image.OSid).  This points to the OS table, which points to the module > table: > image.OSid --> OS.id >

failed: cloning base image failed

2010-09-08 Thread Alexander Patterson
Hello, Been having an issue with our system. We just added a few new blades and had our network team move over files to clone our blades so they work correct. I can't create images anymore. Normal operation works, but I can't update or create images currently. Here is the error code I am getting

Re: failed: cloning base image failed

2010-09-08 Thread Alexander Patterson
e.pm:DESTROY(935)|$ENV{dbh}: database disconnect successful 2010-09-08 13:06:01|16896|10092:9828|new|State.pm:DESTROY(949)|VCL::new process 16896 exiting 2010-09-08 13:06:01|4994|vcld:REAPER(744)|VCL process exited for reservation 9828 On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Alexander Patterson wrote

Re: failed: cloning base image failed

2010-09-13 Thread Alexander Patterson
You could try to > download and install the VMware vSphere Perl SDK on a host having this > problem. I know vmkfstools gets installed when I install the SDK on a > VMware Server 2.0 host. If this doesn't work you could try updating the > host to reinstall the files with the host updat

Re: failed: cloning base image failed

2010-09-16 Thread Alexander Patterson
runs into this issue, this is the solution Thanks -Alex On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Alexander Patterson < alexander.patter...@csueastbay.edu> wrote: > Hello, > > Been having an issue with our system. We just added a few new blades > and had our network team move over files t

Re: [VOTE] release VCL 2.2

2010-09-17 Thread Alexander Patterson
+ 1 from Me. I would love to use 2.2 with vmware server 2.0 and Windows 7 support! I look forward to using esxi over gsx as well. That's a persona option, no idea if my company will want to go in the same direction. -Alex On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Josh Thompson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SI

Image Creation Failing after vmware.pm changes

2010-09-17 Thread Alexander Patterson
I may have spoken to soon about the base images. I was able to update the this image yesterday and it took the changes, but when I try to reload the image back up to create new images. I can't even get it to load. 2010-09-17 10:29:59|31791|12038:11774|new|vmware.pm:load(672)|grep: /install/vmware

Re: [VOTE] release VCL 2.2 - voting based on RC2

2010-09-22 Thread Alexander Patterson
+ 1 On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Josh Thompson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I'm starting a different thread to vote again based on RC2 to make it > easier > to tally votes. > > This is basically the same email as before except with RC1 changed to RC2. > There w

VCL cleanup scripts and Vmware-tmp directory

2010-10-21 Thread Alexander Patterson
Hello, This is an ongoing question about how the VCL scripts clean up the vmware tmp directory. I have a few questions about the process and what gets cleaned. What files are deleted in the vmware tmp, when the vcl runs its cleanup scripts. Are there any directory or files that are safe to manua

Re: VCL cleanup scripts and Vmware-tmp directory

2010-10-21 Thread Alexander Patterson
8,7 16106127361880509 /vmware-tmp/vmware-root/mm0 (deleted) -bash: syntax error near unexpected token `(' On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Aaron Peeler wrote: > Alex, > > What files are you seeing in vmware-tmp? > > either by using ls -l or lsof |grep vmware-tmp > &g

Re: add manageMapping resource attribute to control resource mapping

2010-11-04 Thread Alexander Patterson
I think this is a great idea and would be a welcome change to VCL. I'm sure we would use this for professors who want to manage their own groups and not have full privileges. -Alex +1 On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 5:35 AM, Waldron, Michael H wrote: > Josh, > > I like your idea. It's always good to be

How to Change time out time in VCL code?

2010-11-19 Thread Alexander Patterson
Hi Aaron - We made the changes you suggested to /var/www/html/apache-VCL-2.1-incubating/managementnode/lib/VCL/ reserved.pm . The reservations are still timing out after 15 minutes. The changes were applied as seen below. But it didn't change the time from 15 minutes to 20 minutes like we wanted

Re: How to Change time out time in VCL code?

2010-11-29 Thread Alexander Patterson
se changes on our 2.1 sandbox image and got the 20 minute > timeout. > > Also just to make sure, you wanted 20min for the user to hit the 'connect' > button and 20 min for the user to actually connect right? > > Aaron > > > On 11/19/10 6:47 PM, Alexander Patt

Re: How to Change time out time in VCL code?

2010-11-29 Thread Alexander Patterson
nge the value > of $connect_timeout_limit in /usr/local/vcl/lib/VCL/inuse.pm from 15 to > 20 > as well. > > On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Aaron Peeler > wrote: > > > Hi Alex, > > > > The attached image doesn't give me any info other than the image has &g

Re: How to Change time out time in VCL code?

2010-11-30 Thread Alexander Patterson
Hello, I have made both changes and restarted vcld Here is a log of one of the VM's that are stilling timing out after 15 minutes. |21690|29445:29181|new| VCL Admin, |21690|29445:29181|new| The resources for your VCL request have been successfully reserved. |21690|29445:29181|new| Reservation In

Re: Upgrading from VCL 2.1 to 2.2

2010-12-07 Thread Alexander Patterson
I would like to test this as well, can you email me access at alexander.patter...@csueastbay.edu Thank you -Alex On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Aaron Peeler wrote: > Hi Mike, > > We've done it several times and it's gone smoothly. > > We have a 2.1 sandbox image in our production infrastructure

Re: Interim VCL 2.2.1 release?

2011-01-20 Thread Alexander Patterson
+ 1 Stability in VCL releases sounds like a good thing -Alex On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Aaron Peeler wrote: > +1 for a 2.2.1 release > Aaron > > On 1/18/11 12:38 PM, Andy Kurth wrote: >> >> I'd like to propose cutting an interim VCL 2.2.1 release within the next >> month.  There have been

VM failing from time to time.

2011-02-03 Thread Alexander Patterson
Hello, I'm having an issue with one of my VM's it fails from time to time with different images. I'm not sure whats going on. Any insight would be helpfull. Thank you -Alex Here is the log 2011-02-01 16:28:04|6620|36146:35882|reload|vmware.pm:load(883)|vmguest-65 ROUND 1 checks loop 64 of 40

could not collect dynamic IP address for node

2011-02-10 Thread Alexander Patterson
Hello, I'm having an issue with a new build Image Here is the error Log State Est/Act TimeTotal Time confirming image exists(22) 0:04/0:14 0:14 starting load process(40) 0:06/0:02 0:16 creating configuration file(28) 0:02/5:32 5:48 starting virtual machine(48)

Re: auto image capturing for imaging reservations

2011-02-10 Thread Alexander Patterson
Hello Aaron Peeler, I think this is a great idea, I have had this happen to me before and It's no fun. I would also love to see a easy way to extend the time frame that you can create images for. Currently it is set to 8 hours. If there was a menu options with a time frame drop down, or even an ed

mcrypt-2.6.8 not working correctly with VCL 2.2

2011-02-14 Thread Alexander Patterson
Hello, I'm having a few issues with a new install of VCL 2.2 I am using Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.6 (Tikanga) yum install httpd mod_ssl php-gd php-mcrypt php-mysql php-xml php-xmlrpc php-ldap -yum php-mcrypt ins't working or being found in 5.6 in Red Hat, so I have to set it up

Few errors with my VCL 2.2 install

2011-02-21 Thread Alexander Patterson
Hello, I have a few errors with the install VM host password is not configured in the database for the VM profile API object could not be created: VCL::Module::Provisioning::VMware::vSphere_SDK, no eval error (Is there any documentation on the correct command to run or make it run as eval?) |23

Re: Install problems with VCL

2011-03-01 Thread Alexander Patterson
Hello Fento, Have you add the information about your Managment Node and Web Page URL to your secrets.php file. Also Did you setup the Mysql? yum install mysql -y yum install mysql-server -y /sbin/chkconfig --level 345 mysqld on /sbin/service mysqld start Enter into mysql mysql Create a databa

Image Failing to boot up in VCL 2.2

2011-03-01 Thread Alexander Patterson
011-03-01 14:46:33|24259|52:44|new|VIM_SSH.pm:_run_vim_cmd(193)|vim-cmd call count: 12 (vmsvc/getallvms) 2011-03-01 14:46:33|24259|52:44|new|VIM_SSH.pm:_run_vim_cmd(208)|executed command on VM host vclesxi01: vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms 2011-03-01 14:46:33|24259|52:44|new|VIM_SSH.pm:_run_vim_cmd(193)|v

Re: [VOTE] release VCL 2.2.1

2011-03-18 Thread Alexander Patterson
+ 1 I love bug fixes :) On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Josh Thompson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > In mid January, the community decided to go ahead with a release of 2.2.1 to > get a lot of bug fixes out.  We've finally gotten to the point of doing the > release.

VCL ESXI 4.1 DHCP settting

2011-07-26 Thread Alexander Patterson
Hello VCL Dev, I had a question about how other institutes are running ESXI 4.1 hypervisior and DHCP with VCL. I wanted to know if anyone could share with me the way they configured the network setting to work with the VM's and get a IP address from using a DHCP server. Could someone post how yo

Images Failing Due to error occurred setting root as the owner of /home/root, error output:

2011-08-03 Thread Alexander Patterson
Hello, I'm having an issue with VCL 2.2.1 I have my old images and If I try to create or update them I run into this error error occurred setting root as the owner of /home/root, error output: `/home/root/.ssh': Permission denied chown -R root /home/root/.ssh has been set I have my root dir as

Using Shibboleth to import classes from peoplesoft with VCL not working after upgrade

2011-09-16 Thread Alexander Patterson
Hello Josh, After we upgrade to VCL 2.2 we are having issues with Shibboleth Issue with Identity Management, we are unable to import classes from peoplesoft for students. Our classes are starting next week. I wanted to know if you had any time to help? Could we setup up a short call? Please let m

Re: deleting user group associated with a block allocation

2011-10-26 Thread Alexander Patterson
1 most of the information that is lost isn't important and when they need to make another block they can redo it. We don't do as many blocks are you do, but 1 would be ideal. On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Josh Thompson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I just discov

Image Not Loading

2011-12-15 Thread Alexander Patterson
Hello, I'm having an issue with one of my images See Log here http://pastebin.com/LT5wdBQr This image was working fine before nothing was changed. I tried to do both a image roll back and update the image and each time this image loads I keep getting the same error. I see the image on my ESXI

Re: Benchmarking Software's on VCL

2012-04-16 Thread Alexander Patterson
We have the same issue here with the GIS software. It's due to RDP has to refresh the whole screen shot. The GIS software works much better with like a Cirtix or VMware VDI that doesVmware PCoip that only needs to fresh the parts thats being used. RDP does has it's down faults. -Alex On Mon, Apr

Re: Max Number of VMs per Host

2012-05-24 Thread Alexander Patterson
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 F

Re: Max Number of VMs per Host

2012-05-24 Thread Alexander Patterson
ease > 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-dev@incubator.apache.org > Cc: vcl-u...@incubat

Re: [VOTE] release VCL 2.3

2012-05-30 Thread Alexander Patterson
+1 Alex CSUEB On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Waldron, Michael H wrote: > +1 > > > Mike Waldron > Systems Specialist > ITS Research Computing > University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill > CB #3420, ITS Manning, Rm 2509 > 919-962-9778 > > From: Josh Thom

Re: Re: [VOTE][RESULT] graduation of VCL as a TLP

2012-06-15 Thread Alexander Patterson
+ 1 Alex CSUEB On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Josh Thompson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > FYI > > - --  Forwarded Message  -- > > Subject: Re: [VOTE][RESULT] graduation of VCL as a TLP > Date: Friday, June 15, 2012, 4:26:09 PM > From: Josh Thompson