can't complete reservation

2012-07-11 Thread William Robinson
hello all, i've successfully created a base image and have its privileges configured for base users. i'm trying to create a reservation, but vcl always says the requested time is not available even though there are no other reservations configured and the time grid is entirely green. could

Re: can't complete reservation

2012-07-11 Thread William Robinson
? On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 01:29:28PM -0400, William Robinson wrote: hello all, i've successfully created a base image and have its privileges configured for base users. i'm trying to create a reservation, but vcl always says the requested time is not available even though there are no other

Re: can't complete reservation

2012-07-11 Thread William Robinson
thanks all, i think i am on to something. it turns out i underestimated the number of check-ins the management node does, and i did not go back nearly far enough to catch the issue (i had a 2 hour gap before i could troubleshoot). the logs show the vm not responding to pings and they also

creating a base image

2012-06-29 Thread William Robinson
hi all, i'm having a problem creating a base windows 7 image and i'm wondering if it is because i'm using vcl 2.2.1 and esxi 5. the lines i think are relevant are below. any pointers would be appreciated. thanks. 2012-06-29

Re: creating a base image

2012-06-29 Thread William Robinson
' and 'VM path'? On vclnode01 host, where do you map datastore1 and datastore2? I think 'Data Store Path' and 'VM path' in the profile need to match paths for datastore1 and datastore2 on the VM host. Thanks. On Jun 29, 2012, at 12:31 , William Robinson wrote: hi all, i'm having a problem creating

Re: VCL image capture dies, failed to prepare vmx file

2012-06-25 Thread William Robinson
hi all, new to this list. i have started setting up vcl here and clemson university and this thread has touched on one of the questions i had in trying to do so. do i assign mac addresses based on what esxi generates? if not, how do i map those correctly? thanks. will On 06/20/2012

Re: VM MAC addressing, was Re: VCL image capture dies, failed to prepare vmx file

2012-06-25 Thread William Robinson
thanks michael. will On 06/25/2012 09:58 AM, Michael Jinks wrote: Hi Will. I believe that VCL requires manually assigning MAC addresses when you generate the VM records -- you must use the multi-add page under Add Computers, and have it assign a range of MAC addresses. Note that VMware uses

Re: VM MAC addressing, was Re: VCL image capture dies, failed to prepare vmx file

2012-06-25 Thread William Robinson
experimenting I think it's actually the only way. Good luck, -m On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 09:13:29AM -0400, William Robinson wrote: hi all,