RE: Which version of Linux?

2012-05-10 Thread Waldron, Michael H
We are running RHEL 5.8 for both. Mike Waldron Systems Specialist ITS Research Computing University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill CB #3420, ITS Manning, Rm 2509 919-962-9778 From: Sanders, Arbin D [asand...@nccu.edu] Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 3:07 PM To:

RE: [DISCUSS] Graduation

2012-05-04 Thread Waldron, Michael H
I also support graduation. There has been consistent active development work and a good roadmap for future releases. There is an active community of users that have exchanged a lot of good ideas and provided assistance to the community in resolving problems associated with VCL. It's a solid

RE: Full desktop Linux images?

2012-03-19 Thread Waldron, Michael H
Yes, there is a very simple method of using VNC, which is available with most Linux distros. Make sure you have both vnc and vnc-server packages installed in the image. You don't have to have the VNC client installed on the end-user's desktop, you can use the client in the Linux image. To

RE: VCL software licensing

2012-03-07 Thread Waldron, Michael H
Alex In our case, we really haven't had to do anything special in regards to licensing. For Microsoft products, we have a campus license which allows us to install on any University-owned systems using the campus site key. For many applications we have network license servers, so the VCL

RE: VCL software licensing

2012-03-07 Thread Waldron, Michael H
insight if anyone has worked closer to the vendors to work on a VCL licensing for software -Alex On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Waldron, Michael H mwald...@email.unc.edumailto:mwald...@email.unc.edu wrote: Alex In our case, we really haven't had to do anything special in regards to licensing

RE: VCL and xCat

2012-02-29 Thread Waldron, Michael H
Dmitri, Yes, VCL supports kickstart installs with xCAT. The column in the image table that corresponds to the install type is OSid. Example: mysql select prettyname, OSid from image where id=235; +---+--+ | prettyname| OSid |

RE: VCL and xCat

2012-02-29 Thread Waldron, Michael H
. vcld --setup only allows partimage type for bare-metal. Thank you. On Feb 29, 2012, at 15:41 , Waldron, Michael H wrote: Dmitri, Yes, VCL supports kickstart installs with xCAT. The column in the image table that corresponds to the install type is OSid. Example: mysql select

RE: Image Creation from Base Image

2011-11-15 Thread Waldron, Michael H
I dealt with this issue of the network interfaces changing assignments in our Ubuntu images. For Ubuntu 9.04 and earlier: Create /etc/udev/rules.d/90-persistent-net.rules file. Contents: SUBSYSTEM==net, ACTION==add, DRIVERS==?*, ATTR{type}==1, KERNEL==eth*, OPTIONS=ignore_device This

RE: Problems in Ubuntu image creation

2011-11-15 Thread Waldron, Michael H
We are using Ubuntu images. I see the VCL trying to configure the RedHat-type network files and failing to do so since those files don't exist in Ubuntu. However in our case, the failures are harmless because we use DHCP, so I set the /etc/network/interface file accordingly in the initial

RE: VCL-427 managing user group for block allocations

2011-10-04 Thread Waldron, Michael H
I don't think this would cause us any problems. The way we use block allocations, we always set admin@Local as the managing group. Mike Waldron Systems Specialist ITS Research Computing University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill CB 3420, ITS Manning, Rm 2509 919-962-9778 -Original

RE: Windows 7 SP1 boot hangs

2011-09-23 Thread Waldron, Michael H
and sometimes it's slow. Maybe disabling ReadyBoot would help? On 9/22/2011 1:48 PM, Waldron, Michael H wrote: James, Thanks for the suggestions. I've already increased the ssh timeout, however this hang goes way beyond a reasonable amount of time, anywhere from 20-30 minutes. I'll test with your

Windows 7 SP1 boot hangs

2011-09-22 Thread Waldron, Michael H
I've been running Windows 7 images on ESXi 4.1 hosts in our VCL without problem. When I updated several of those Windows 7 images to service pack 1, I'm seeing an issue where more times than not, the VM will hang at the Windows Starting screen for up to 30 minutes. If I revert back to the

RE: Block Allocation

2011-08-19 Thread Waldron, Michael H
Kelly, Yes, the block allocation is assigned to a user group, so the students must belong to that group. In order for the students to be assigned to the group, their accounts must already exist in the database. Rather than wait for the students to login to the VCL, what I do is have the

FW: Error with VCL XMLRPC call

2011-06-20 Thread Waldron, Michael H
: mwald...@email.unc.edu [mwald...@email.unc.edu] Sent: Monday, June 20, 2011 8:45 AM To: Waldron, Michael H Subject: Error with VCL XMLRPC call Table 'VMhostCheck' already exists CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE VMhostCheck ( RAM mediumint unsigned NOT NULL, allocRAM mediumint unsigned NOT NULL, vmhostid