Re: can't complete reservation

2012-07-11 Thread Michael Jinks
seem to indicate where the problem may lie. TIA. -- will -- Michael Jinks :: mji...@uchicago.edu :: 773-469-9688 University of Chicago IT Services

Re: VCL: warnings for reservation timeout?

2012-07-06 Thread Michael Jinks
Preferences (which I don't remember how to access. :-) --henry On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Michael Jinks mji...@uchicago.edu wrote: We've noticed that when a reservation times out, the system drops its public NIC off the wire without any warning. I can imagine some pretty unhappy

VCL and data persistence (AD)?

2012-07-05 Thread Michael Jinks
, but that will be impractical in a VCL environment. Is anybody else doing something similar? Or, have you found another strategy for providing data persistence? Thanks. -- Michael Jinks :: mji...@uchicago.edu University of Chicago IT Services

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

2012-06-26 Thread Michael Jinks
: Ahh, I think you're running into this: [2]http://markmail.org/message/t2ajnaew5qe4jxul On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Michael Jinks [3]mji...@uchicago.edu wrote: That's more or less what we're doing. Here are some details: The source VM I'm capturing from

Re: VCL: public/private IP discrepency?

2012-06-26 Thread Michael Jinks
, Michael Jinks mji...@uchicago.edu wrote: No, that's not the problem we're having. ?(We *did* have that problem, and just deleting the offending rule file no lnoger works in RHEL 6, but we fixed it by creating /etc/udev/rules.d/75-persistent-net-generator.rules as a symlink to /dev/null

Re: VCL: public/private IP discrepency?

2012-06-26 Thread Michael Jinks
? -- 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 wrote: No, that's not the problem

Re: VCL: public/private IP discrepency?

2012-06-26 Thread Michael Jinks
. Aaron On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Michael Jinks mji...@uchicago.edu wrote: Hi Aaron. Ah, sure enough, it is set to Static. ?Silly me, when I first set this up I read that to mean don't try to set the public IP, leave it to us humans to configure. ...Okay, so how would we get

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
? Do I have to do this by hand in the database? -- Michael Jinks :: mji...@uchicago.edu University of Chicago IT Services

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

2012-06-25 Thread Michael Jinks
, 2012, at 15:45, Michael Jinks mji...@uchicago.edu wrote: 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

VCL: How to preconfigure deployed images?

2012-06-21 Thread Michael Jinks
worried that a failure to have sshd running at boot time will cause the deployment of the image to fail. Maybe that's a non-issue. Anyhow... How are other sites dealing with this? Is there something in VCL that takes care of this that I've just missed? Thanks, -m -- Michael Jinks :: mji

VCL: deployment to VMware, NICs disconnected

2012-06-21 Thread Michael Jinks
that the Connected box is not checked, even though Connect at power on is checked. Is this a known issue? -- Michael Jinks :: mji...@uchicago.edu University of Chicago IT Services

VCL image capture dies, failed to prepare vmx file

2012-06-19 Thread Michael Jinks
Hi, all. Trying to resurrect a thread I started on Friday, subject 'Image capture succeeds, then fails'. Mike Haudenschild helped me narrow down the problem but so far I haven't been able to find a cause or a fix. I'm trying to capture my first Linux VM. Things go along okay through the

Re: Image capture succeeds, then fails

2012-06-18 Thread Michael Jinks
, 2012, Michael Jinks wrote: I think I may have just run my first successful image capture. There's an image directory now in my templates directory, and when I browse to Manage Images and Edit Image Profiles, my base image is there. Hooray! ...But, shortly

Re: Image capture succeeds, then fails

2012-06-18 Thread Michael Jinks
to write something else? On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 12:58:25PM -0500, Michael Jinks wrote: Thanks Mike. Checking the storage profile for this VM host, Data Store Path is /vmfs/volumes/T2_6045_dev_VCL_ds01. That directory is present and read/write on our ESXi machine. VM Path is set to (empty

next issue, Re: Image capture hitch

2012-06-14 Thread Michael Jinks
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 02:37:40PM -0400, Josh Thompson wrote: You're hitting a bug in 2.2.1. If you go to Manage Computers-Computer Utilities, you can set the VM to the available state successfully. Thanks. I had looked around a little for another way to do it but missed that. Now I'm a

Fixed, Re: next issue, Re: Image capture hitch

2012-06-14 Thread Michael Jinks
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 03:01:03PM -0500, Michael Jinks wrote: [...] 2012-06-14 14:15:57|25286|3:3|image|Module.pm:create_mn_os_object(335)|management node OS object has already been created, address: 3fc9dc8, returning 1 2012-06-14 14:15:57|25286|3:3|image|Module.pm:new(200)|VCL

Repository vs. Data Store vs. VM Path?

2012-06-14 Thread Michael Jinks
gather that one of those is the data store where disk files for live VM's are stored, another is the data store where VM templates are stored (right?) and the third is... what? I don't know. Which should be which? -- Michael Jinks :: mji...@uchicago.edu :: 773-469-9688 University of Chicago

Re: Basic questions on base image creation

2012-06-12 Thread Michael Jinks
documentation on creating a linux base image is here: https://cwiki.apache.org/VCL/create-a-linux-base-image.html Sorry for the confusion. Josh On Mon June 11 2012 7:50:11 PM Michael Jinks wrote: I have a pilot VCL setup with a VMware ESXi hypervisor. The hypervisor

Fixed, Re: Multiple issues with install_perl_libs.pl

2012-06-04 Thread Michael Jinks
to get from the VCL download site? Thanks, -m -- Michael Jinks :: [6]mji...@uchicago.edu University of Chicago IT Services References 1. http://install_perl_libs.pl/ 2. http://download.fedora.redhat.com/ 3. http://dl.fedoraproject.org/ 4. http://tinyurl.com

Re: Thin client with VCL

2012-04-10 Thread Michael Jinks
, 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 -- Michael Jinks :: mji...@uchicago.edu :: 773-469-9688

First VCL setup, docs don't match my UI

2011-10-26 Thread Michael Jinks
no Add Multiple Computers option. Am I reading the wrong docs? Did I install the wrong release of VCL? Or did I skip a step somewhere? -- Michael Jinks :: mji...@uchicago.edu :: 773-469-9688 Technical Lead or something, Academic Technologies University of Chicago IT Services Sorry this took so

Re: First VCL setup, docs don't match my UI

2011-10-26 Thread Michael Jinks
/2011 2:11 PM, Michael Jinks wrote: I'm trying to set up my first proof-of-concept VCL instance. I have VCL installed and working on one machine, and I've added a VMware ESXi host according to the docs at: https://cwiki.apache.org/VCL/vcl-221-further-steps-if-using-vmware.html

Re: First VCL setup, docs don't match my UI

2011-10-26 Thread Michael Jinks
didn't see the radio button myself when started using VCL) On the next page you'll find 'vmhostinuse' under the 'State' pull down. __Jim On 10/26/2011 3:16 PM, Michael Jinks wrote: Hm. I think I'm runing 2.2.1; I installed recently, but I can't find any way to confirm the version