Linux base image on ESXi server?

2011-11-01 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
Hi All I'm stuck on creating a base image (Linux) for newly deployed Apache VCL system and looking for help... This is the closes I got so far to a working system. I'm using ESXi 4.1 (60 days evaluation), ssh is enabled, ESXi server name is esxiServer01, added to the host file on VCL management

Re: Linux base image on ESXi server?

2011-11-02 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
, but username/password configured in the profile. Thanks. On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Dmitri Chebotarov 4dim...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Got this link from one of the posts on this elist - https://sites.google.com/a/ncsu.edu/vcl-bootcamp/. I hope it helps me understand the VCL better... Can

Re: Linux base image on ESXi server?

2011-11-03 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
? Thanks. On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Dmitri Chebotarov 4dim...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I got some progress on this issue. I tried to run vmware-cmd from vcl-server and got the same error - Server version unavailable at , which could mean SSL certificate is missing. Then found this post http

Re: rdp file auto login

2011-11-22 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
Gene, Username/password would be on your reservation page. Username is Admin, password is generated for each reservation and you need to type it manually when open RDP. Thanks. On Nov 22, 2011, at 12:32 , Gene Lui wrote: Hi there, I wonder if any of you bright individuals can help me

Re: rdp file auto login

2011-11-22 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
for such a quick reply and answer to my question. Take care, Gene Drexel University On Tue, 2011-11-22 at 12:47 -0500, Dmitri Chebotarov wrote: Gene, Username/password would be on your reservation page. Username is Admin, password is generated for each reservation and you need to type

Re: Help or support

2011-11-23 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
Juan Could you please check the following: - VMWARE host is added with following properties: State: vmhostinuse, Type: blade, Provisioning Engine: xCAT 2.x. You can check/change it under Manage Computers. - the VM you are trying to image (lets call it baseImage01) is added with

Re: Testing the VCL Frontend Code

2011-11-29 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
Ben Could you please restart httpd service and try to access testsetup.php again? You probably installed all necessary PHP packages, but httpd task needs to restarted to re-read .conf files to include PHP. Thanks On Nov 29, 2011, at 16:06 , ben.m...@valpo.edu wrote: Hi, I'm having issues

Re: Resource Group Error

2012-01-03 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
encountered Unkown error type: [8] Undefined variable: groupwasnone Error at 511 in /var/www/html/vcl/.ht-inc/groups.php Any idea what this means ? Thanks, Al Quiros Thank you. - Dmitri Chebotarov dcheb...@gmu.edu 703-993-6175 - signature.asc Description

VCL and xCat

2012-02-09 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
Hi All Anyone is using xCat with VCL? I have generic question about xCat and VCL - where do I start? Do I need working xCat environment before I can add it to VCL? Does xCat need dedicated server? Or does it run on the VCL management node? Are there any special hardware requirements for xCat

Re: VCL and xCat

2012-02-09 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
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Re: VCL and xCat

2012-02-09 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
requirements for xCat clients? Thank you. Thank you. - Dmitri Chebotarov dcheb...@gmu.edu 703-993-6175 - Thank you. - Dmitri Chebotarov dcheb...@gmu.edu 703-993-6175 - signature.asc Description

Re: VCL and xCat

2012-02-10 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
+Management+Node+Installation Hope this info helps, Aaron On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Dmitri Chebotarov dcheb...@gmu.edu wrote: Amit, Thanks a lot. On Feb 9, 2012, at 15:57 , Kumar, Amit H. wrote: Hi Dmitri, You general idea is correct to my best understanding. Install

Re: VCL and xCat

2012-02-10 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
/VCL+2.2.1+Management+N ode+Installation Hope this info helps, Aaron On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Dmitri Chebotarov dcheb...@gmu.edu wrote: Amit, Thanks a lot. On Feb 9, 2012, at 15:57 , Kumar, Amit H. wrote: Hi Dmitri, You general idea is correct to my best understanding

Re: VCL and xCat

2012-02-22 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
the partimage rpm. partimage is not something that needs to be installed on the management node. It is part of the stateless images mentioned on the above page. Josh On Tuesday 21 February 2012 4:47:06 PM Dmitri Chebotarov wrote: Hi All. I'm trying to capture a base image using xCAT module

Re: php-mcrypt and php-sysvsem

2012-02-27 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
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Linux servers with VLAN ID

2012-02-27 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
/external_sshd_config /etc/rc.d/init.d/ext_sshd stop /etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd stop sleep 2 /etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd start /etc/rc.d/init.d/ext_sshd start Thank you. - Dmitri Chebotarov dcheb...@gmu.edu 703-993-6175 - signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using

Re: failed mysql connection

2012-02-27 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
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Re: failed mysql connection

2012-02-28 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
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Re: VCL and xCat

2012-02-28 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
would report install imagename for about 7-9 sec and xCAT2.pm doesn't always get it. Thank you for your help. On Feb 22, 2012, at 14:32 , Dmitri Chebotarov wrote: John, I got the link and I think I'm making some good progress. Also found this tread on the maillist (http://markmail.org

Re: Linux servers with VLAN ID

2012-02-28 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
Hi All Please ignore this question. I fixed it with adding a boot script to Linux bare-metal image (in /etc/init.d) to replace eth1 with eth1. in /etc/rc.local file using sed. Thanks. On Feb 27, 2012, at 15:16 , Dmitri Chebotarov wrote: Hi All, In case if I need to use VLANs

Re: VCL and xCat

2012-02-28 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
imagename? If it is reporting that ssh is running, you may have a postscript set to configure ssh that is getting run for the stateless image. We have things set up so that ssh does not get set up for the stateless image. Josh On Tuesday, February 28, 2012 12:58:46 PM Dmitri Chebotarov wrote

Re: Creating a base image

2012-02-28 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
attached for more information. Thanks, Aaron Bryant Logfile.txt Thank you. - Dmitri Chebotarov dcheb...@gmu.edu 703-993-6175 - signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail

Re: VCL and xCat

2012-02-28 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
at 4:03 PM, Dmitri Chebotarov dcheb...@gmu.edu wrote: Amit, Thanks a lot. On Feb 9, 2012, at 15:57 , Kumar, Amit H. wrote: Hi Dmitri, You general idea is correct to my best understanding. Install Path in the Edit management Node will be the path for xCAT(bare metal) image

Re: VCL and xCat

2012-02-29 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
on this page: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/VCL/VCL+2.2.1+Management + N ode+Installation Hope this info helps, Aaron On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Dmitri Chebotarov dcheb...@gmu.edu wrote: Amit, Thanks a lot. On Feb 9, 2012, at 15:57 , Kumar, Amit H. wrote

Re: VCL and xCat

2012-02-29 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
to your ESXi image. Mike Mike Waldron Systems Specialist ITS Research Computing University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill CB 3420, ITS Manning, Rm 2509 919-962-9778 -Original Message- From: Dmitri Chebotarov [mailto:dcheb...@gmu.edu] Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 3

Re: VCL and xCat

2012-03-01 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
Manning, Rm 2509 919-962-9778 -Original Message- From: Dmitri Chebotarov [mailto:dcheb...@gmu.edu] Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 4:19 PM To: vcl-user@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: VCL and xCat Mike, Thank you for explanation. How did you add kickstart image to vcl.image

Re: VCL and xCat

2012-03-01 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Dmitri Chebotarov dcheb...@gmu.edu wrote: Mike Thank you. I was missing the record in vcl.resource table. For ESXi 4.1 kickstart I had to change sourcepath value in vcl.os from esxi4.1 to esxi41 for id=38. xCAT2.pm can only get esxi4. (misses part after .) I also had

Re: Xcat image capture issues

2012-03-13 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
)|data has been retrieved for user: admin (id: 1) -- Dmitri Chebotarov Virtual Computing Lab Systems Engineer, TSD - Ent Servers Messaging 223 Aquia Building, Ffx, MSN: 1B5 Phone: (703) 993-6175 Fax: (703) 993-3404

Re: Xcat image capture issues

2012-03-14 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
Evelio Please follow this article to add support for 'image' and 'install' : https://cwiki.apache.org/VCL/adding-support-for-partimage-and-partimage-ng-to-xcat-2x-unofficial.html Thanks. -- Dmitri Chebotarov On Wednesday, March 14, 2012 at 15:37 , Evelio Quiros wrote: Hello again

Re: Xcat image capture issues

2012-03-15 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
about NFS servers for the image store. Are these required ? Thanks for all your help, Al Quiros On 3/14/12 4:05 PM, Dmitri Chebotarov 4dim...@gmail.com wrote: Evelio Please follow this article to add support for 'image' and 'install' : https://cwiki.apache.org/VCL/adding-support

Re: Xcat image capture issues

2012-03-16 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
the machine is, and how to reach it. Al Q On 3/15/12 11:05 AM, Dmitri Chebotarov dcheb...@gmu.edu wrote: Evelio Could you please check that you have these files/folders as well? /install/image/x86/installer_files/listener.py /install/image/x86/installer_files/rootimg.gz Also, can

Re: Full desktop Linux images?

2012-03-19 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
-- Dmitri Chebotarov Virtual Computing Lab Systems Engineer, TSD - Ent Servers Messaging 223 Aquia Building, Ffx, MSN: 1B5 Phone: (703) 993-6175 Fax: (703) 993-3404

Wndows pagefile.sys settings

2012-03-28 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
disable_pagefile() on line 474 during image capture. Would it be OK to disable this function? Thank you. -- Dmitri Chebotarov Virtual Computing Lab Systems Engineer, TSD - Ent Servers Messaging 223 Aquia Building, Ffx, MSN: 1B5 Phone: (703) 993-6175 Fax: (703) 993-3404

Re: Wndows pagefile.sys settings

2012-03-28 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
in the code where I could stop VCL from changing pagefile settings? Thanks. -- Dmitri Chebotarov Virtual Computing Lab Systems Engineer, TSD - Ent Servers Messaging 223 Aquia Building, Ffx, MSN: 1B5 Phone: (703) 993-6175 Fax: (703) 993-3404 On Wednesday, March 28, 2012 at 16:19 , James O'Dell wrote

Re: ESXi 4.1 image for VCL reservation

2012-03-29 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
to use ESXi image along with a Windows sub-image with vSphere client, so ESXi server won't need public IP address in this case… I only need to address reservation steps (ie. get IP, add user, etc.) - xCAT/VCL already handles ESXi install process. Thanks. -- Dmitri Chebotarov Virtual

Re: ESXi 4.1 image for VCL reservation

2012-03-29 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
Andy Could I extend existing ESXi.pm module at /usr/local/vcl/lib/VCL/Module/OS/Linux/ESXi.pm? Everyhing you described seems to be already in place - entry for esxi OS (OSid), module name/path. Thanks. -- Dmitri Chebotarov On Thursday, March 29, 2012 at 14:56 , Andy Kurth wrote

Thin client with VCL

2012-04-10 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
like this would be a better option - less expensive, less admin overhead, more secure, and with all the benefits of VCL... Thanks. -- Dmitri Chebotarov Virtual Computing Lab Systems Engineer, TSD - Ent Servers Messaging 223 Aquia Building, Ffx, MSN: 1B5 Phone: (703) 993-6175 Fax: (703) 993-3404

available computers

2012-04-12 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
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Re: Thin client with VCL

2012-04-12 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
Thank you for sharing the information - these are all good points. Thank you. -- Dmitri Chebotarov Virtual Computing Lab Systems Engineer, TSD - Ent Servers Messaging 223 Aquia Building, Ffx, MSN: 1B5 Phone: (703) 993-6175 Fax: (703) 993-3404 On Tuesday, April 10, 2012 at 11:26 , Henry

Re: Windows 7 and DHCP

2012-04-16 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
subnet/broadcast domain or you have DHCP Relay agent on your subnet to communicate with DHCP server? Thanks. -- Dmitri Chebotarov Virtual Computing Lab Systems Engineer, TSD - Ent Servers Messaging 223 Aquia Building, Ffx, MSN: 1B5 Phone: (703) 993-6175 Fax: (703) 993-3404 On Monday, April

Win 7 reservations sometimes fails with DCHP error

2012-04-19 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
not in production yet. Before patch goes to production I would like to ask if someone has/had the same issue with Win 7 images. The error message below. Thank you for your help. -- Dmitri Chebotarov Virtual Computing Lab Systems Engineer, TSD - Ent Servers Messaging 223 Aquia Building, Ffx, MSN: 1B5 Phone

VCL 2.3

2012-05-01 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
: … Is it normal and I need to configure username/password, or am I missing something in VCL 2.3? Thank you. -- Dmitri Chebotarov Virtual Computing Lab Systems Engineer, TSD - Ent Servers Messaging 223 Aquia Building, Ffx, MSN: 1B5 Phone: (703) 993-6175 Fax: (703) 993-3404

Re: Graduation

2012-05-07 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
Hi, May I ask what are the benefits of graduation for VCL? How does graduation change the way the VCL is used? I apologize if these are trivial questions. Thanks. -- Dmitri Chebotarov Virtual Computing Lab Systems Engineer, TSD - Ent Servers Messaging 223 Aquia Building, Ffx, MSN: 1B5

Re: Apache VCL Ready to Graduate

2012-05-10 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
+1 -- Thank you, Dmitri Chebotarov Virtual Computing Lab Systems Engineer, TSD - Ent Servers Messaging 223 Aquia Building, Ffx, MSN: 1B5 Phone: (703) 993-6175 Fax: (703) 993-3404 On Thursday, May 10, 2012 at 11:01 , Andy Kurth wrote: This vote is to determine if the Apache VCL community

Re: Update vmware-tools on many base images ?

2012-05-18 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
automatically during boot time. I need to find the place in code where .vmx file is created for 'Create Imaging Reservation' task and test it. -- Thank you, Dmitri Chebotarov Virtual Computing Lab Systems Engineer, TSD - Ent Servers Messaging 223 Aquia Building, Ffx, MSN: 1B5 Phone: (703

Re: Max Number of VMs per Host

2012-05-24 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
Host for shared VMFS for VMFS-v3. What hypervisor do use for VCL? Thanks. -- Thank you, Dmitri Chebotarov Virtual Computing Lab Systems Engineer, TSD - Ent Servers Messaging 223 Aquia Building, Ffx, MSN: 1B5 Phone: (703) 993-6175 Fax: (703) 993-3404 On Thursday, May 24, 2012 at 11:42

Re: Max Number of VMs per Host

2012-05-24 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
is prohibited. If you received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. From: Dmitri Chebotarov [mailto:dcheb...@gmu.edu] Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 12:01 PM To: vcl-...@incubator.apache.org Cc: vcl-user@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Max

Re: Max Number of VMs per Host

2012-05-25 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
? -- Thank you, Dmitri Chebotarov Virtual Computing Lab Systems Engineer, TSD - Ent Servers Messaging 223 Aquia Building, Ffx, MSN: 1B5 Phone: (703) 993-6175 Fax: (703) 993-3404 On Thursday, May 24, 2012 at 21:03 , Sanders, Arbin D wrote: How about other hypervisors? KVM limits? Arbin D. Sanders

Making Documentation link available on the very 1st page?

2012-06-05 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
. -- Thank you, Dmitri Chebotarov Virtual Computing Lab Systems Engineer, TSD - Ent Servers Messaging 223 Aquia Building, Ffx, MSN: 1B5 Phone: (703) 993-6175 Fax: (703) 993-3404

Re: Making Documentation link available on the very 1st page?

2012-06-07 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
Please take a look at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-593, which suggests possible solution to add links to VCL login page. -- Thank you, Dmitri Chebotarov Virtual Computing Lab Systems Engineer, TSD - Ent Servers Messaging 223 Aquia Building, Ffx, MSN: 1B5 Phone: (703) 993-6175 Fax

Re: Making Documentation link available on the very 1st page?

2012-06-08 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
-- Hi To be fair, I need to say that the idea wasn't my and most of the work adding this option was done by Mark Craft. I just continued his work, tested it and attached the code. -- Thank you, Dmitri Chebotarov Virtual Computing Lab Systems Engineer, TSD - Ent Servers Messaging 223

libvirt/KVM

2012-06-19 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
Virtualization 'Virtualization Client' 'Virtualization Platform' 'Virtualization Tools'). If Libvirt is working for you, could you please share your configuration (ie. VM host version and packages, VCL computer configuration, etc) ? -- Thank you, Dmitri Chebotarov Virtual Computing Lab Systems

Re: libvirt/KVM

2012-06-20 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
and will let you know if it fails. Thanks. --- Dmitri Chebotarov Virtual Computing Lab Systems Engineer, TSD - Ent Servers Messaging 223 Aquia Building, Ffx, MSN: 1B5 Phone: (703) 993-6175 Fax: (703) 993-3404 On Wednesday, June 20, 2012 at 10:38 , Andy Kurth wrote: There were some definite

Re: libvirt/KVM

2012-06-20 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
to a computer with Provisioning Engine set to VMware and using a VMware host. It fails. In this case (image.OSid = 36) there is no link between KVM image and libvirt computers/KVM hosts. Thanks. --- Dmitri Chebotarov Virtual Computing Lab Systems Engineer, TSD - Ent Servers Messaging 223 Aquia Building

Re: libvirt/KVM

2012-06-20 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
. -- Dmitri Chebotarov Virtual Computing Lab Systems Engineer, TSD - Ent Servers Messaging 223 Aquia Building, Ffx, MSN: 1B5 Phone: (703) 993-6175 Fax: (703) 993-3404 On Wednesday, June 20, 2012 at 15:43 , Andy Kurth wrote: I'm confused about what you're trying to load. Is centos5image

Re: VCL: public/private IP discrepency?

2012-06-26 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
you also check that ifcfg-eth0 / 1 files don't have HWADDR option? -- Thank you, Dmitri Chebotarov Virtual Computing Lab Systems Engineer, TSD - Ent Servers Messaging 223 Aquia Building, Ffx, MSN: 1B5 Phone: (703) 993-6175 Fax: (703) 993-3404 On Tuesday, June 26, 2012 at 8:51 , Michael Jinks

Re: Problem to create Base Image - VCL 2.2

2012-06-29 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
eliminar la información de cualquier equipo de cómputo y hacerlo del conocimiento del remitente. -- Thank you, Dmitri Chebotarov Virtual Computing Lab Systems Engineer, TSD - Ent Servers Messaging 223 Aquia Building, Ffx, MSN: 1B5 Phone: (703) 993-6175 Fax: (703) 993-3404 signature.asc

Re: RPM-ing VCL 2.2.1

2012-06-29 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
, distributed with VCL and the official install docs don't ask to have them installed either. But the rpmbuild process picks those modules up as requirements. Thanks, Curtis. -- Thank you, Dmitri Chebotarov Virtual Computing Lab Systems Engineer, TSD - Ent Servers Messaging 223 Aquia Building, Ffx

Re: creating a base image

2012-06-29 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
, signal: CHLD 2012-06-29 12:08:31|2165|10:10|failed|vcld:main(252)|request deleted 2012-06-29 12:10:02|2165|vcld:main(167)|lastcheckin time updated for management node 2: 2012-06-29 12:10:02 -- will -- Thank you, Dmitri Chebotarov Virtual Computing Lab Systems Engineer, TSD - Ent

Re: Problem to create Base Image - VCL 2.2

2012-07-02 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
, retransmisión, distribución u otro uso de la información. Si recibió este mensaje por equivocación, atentamente le solicitamos eliminar la información de cualquier equipo de cómputo y hacerlo del conocimiento del remitente. -- Thank you, Dmitri Chebotarov Virtual Computing Lab Systems