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 Mike Haudenschild
Hi Will -- The MAC address range Mike identified below is the best to use. ESXi expects any manually-assigned MAC addresses to fall within the range 00:50:56:00:yy:zz and 00:50:56:3F:yy:zz [1]. (Note these are manually-assigned from ESXi's perspective, not VCL's perspective. VCL generates a

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

2012-06-25 Thread William Robinson
thanks. i'm not sure i want to blow what i have configured away. i have a colleague working on this with me who is pretty knowledgeable with mysql. i'm sure i can get him to help me fix these up. this has also convinced me to install phpmyadmin to

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

2012-06-25 Thread Michael Jinks
For the record: the trouble was that we didn't have defined MAC addresses in our database records for these VM's. Adding the MAC addresses to the computer database by hand fixed the issue. On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 04:53:40PM -0500, Michael Jinks wrote: Hi, all. Trying to resurrect a thread I

VCL: public/private IP discrepency?

2012-06-25 Thread Michael Jinks
Hi List. Still trying to get a successful capture and deploy to run; here's my latest glitch. In the VCL web interface, under Manage Computers - Edit Computer Information, there's a single field for IP address. I've been entering the private-side IP address for VM's I'm trying to capture.

Re: VCL: public/private IP discrepency?

2012-06-25 Thread Mike Haudenschild
Hi Mike, I handle this by running DHCP on the private VCL network, assigning MAC addresses to specific VMs so as to make them predictable. Then add each hosts PRIVATE IP to the management node's /etc/hosts file. This will force the management node to resolve the compute name to the private IP,

Re: [vcl-team] Re: VCL: public/private IP discrepency?

2012-06-25 Thread Michael Jinks
That's more or less what we're doing. Here are some details: The source VM I'm capturing from is not represented in DNS at all. On my management node in /etc/hosts I have: 10.50.84.15 vcl-linux-template-2-bak 128.135.192.15 vcl-linux-template-2 (The second line is for my reference; it

Re: [vcl-team] Re: VCL: public/private IP discrepency?

2012-06-25 Thread Mike Haudenschild
Ahh, I think you're running into this: http://markmail.org/message/t2ajnaew5qe4jxul On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Michael Jinks mji...@uchicago.edu wrote: That's more or less what we're doing. Here are some details: The source VM I'm capturing from is not represented in DNS at all. On

Re: [vcl-team] Re: VCL: public/private IP discrepency?

2012-06-25 Thread Mike Haudenschild
To clarify: Linux is probably creating an eth2 because it's holding out that its OLD eth0 (which was in your image) might someday come back. On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Mike Haudenschild m...@longsight.comwrote: Ahh, I think you're running into this:

RPM-ing VCL 2.2.1

2012-06-25 Thread Curtis C.
Hi All, I've been working on an initial spec file for VCL 2.2.1. Currently I believe all the dependencies, CPAN modules included, can be obtained from the EPEL and RPMForge repositories. If the project is going to support RHEL and CentOS only then providing a RPM could allow you to remove the