"Add Single Computer" Question: add vm's directly here by hostname & IP or only ESX hosts?

2010-08-12 Thread Randy Sprague
Do I need to add the ESX 4.1 host itself in the managment node->Add Computer->Add Single Computer screen, or just the vm's by name & IP? Thanks, Randy.

Re: unable to retrieve management node information from database -- please help

2010-08-12 Thread Randy Sprague
Josh, The suggestion of recreating the tables by DROPping them from vcl and then importing vcl.sql solved my problem; at that point, I got my "authentication OK" msg. displayed and knew that I was on the right track, so went into authentication.php and removed that line, restarted the service an

Re: unable to retrieve management node information from database -- please help

2010-08-12 Thread Randy Sprague
Andy, My existing datastore is on a different host: 128.111.90.168, it's an ESX 4.1 host and the datastore I've created there is all managed by vSphere 4.1 as well. There's a resource pool called "vm-pool" and the datastore is in the default location. I can grant you off-campus remote access

Re: unable to retrieve management node information from database -- please help

2010-08-12 Thread Randy Sprague
HI Andy, I'll definitely take you up on that offer! We're running a gentoo 'dev' environment on top-line SUN x64 server hardware, and I already have a vmware ESX 4.1 host with XP lab-ready vm's standing by that I prepared & tested a couple weeks ago. Right now I'm having difficulty getting the

Re: unable to retrieve management node information from database -- please help

2010-08-12 Thread Andy Kurth
Once your VCL website is working you will need to load each image on a VM, install and configure Cygwin sshd, then save each as a VCL image. Rather than taking weeks to get this working via the list I could help you through this over phone then send a summary to the list. I'd like to use the n

Re: unable to retrieve management node information from database -- please help

2010-08-12 Thread Josh Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Randy, I'd say at the point it would be a good idea to create a new database in mysql using the vcl.sql file. Then, modify secrets.php and vcld.conf to point to the new database. Also, make sure to grant the database account you've created (vclus