RE: Image Creation Help Needed

All, I have been looking at Norvins log and I'm not sure I completely understand the process that occurs when reading in the vmx during an image capture. |30380|24:24|image| /vmfs/volumes/VCL-REPOSITORY/vcl485/vcl485.vmx 2012-05-30 09:18:46|30380|24:24|image|VMware.pm:get_vmx_info(4405)|attempti

Re: Cap on RDP bandwidth

Hi Mike, Sorry I'm not much help in this area, but there might be some traffic shaping options in vmware esx/esxi or maybe some options in your local switching gear. Other than that, I'm sure there are products that can do this. Aaron On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Mike Haudenschild wrote:

Not being able to reserve XP for updates

Hello again, Well, we've run across another stumbling block that I hope someone can help with. We've been able to reproduce it using the same steps so I have to assume this would be simple for someone to answer. Windows XP image Manage Images -> Create/Update an Image -> Reservation RDP into I

Fwd: [VOTE] graduation of VCL as a TLP

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 FYI - I just called for a vote on proposing that VCL graduate. - -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: [VOTE] graduation of VCL as a TLP Date: Monday, June 11, 2012, 2:02:47 PM From: Josh Thompson To: gene...@incubator.apache.org IPMC

Re: [VOTE] graduation of VCL as a TLP

Awesome - Thanks. For folks that may want to monitor the vote and are not on that mailing list, the thread is available in the archives. http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201206.mbox/browser I'm not sure how often it is updated, but at least a few times a day. Aaron O

Re: Not being able to reserve XP for updates

Hi Adam, Check your image grouping and be sure that whatever image you're attempting to reserve/update is in a group that has access to one or more "computers." - Manage Images --> Edit Image Grouping (make sure target image is in a group you're using) - Manage Images --> Edit Image Mapping (make

Re: Not being able to reserve XP for updates

Adam Also, can check if you have available computers (under Manage Computers) capable hosting the image? -- 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 Monday,

Re: Not being able to reserve XP for updates

Yes, that's very important. Go to Manage Images --> Edit Image Profiles, and check the required specifications (RAM, processor) for that image. Then, as Dmitri notes, go to Manage Computers --> Edit Computer Information and confirm that at least one computer (in the group you're mapped to) has th

Re: Not being able to reserve XP for updates

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam, On the page with the time table (green blocks), how many columns of green blocks do you have? Each column corresponds to a computer that the image is mapped to be able to run on. There is a bug with a part of the scheduling algorithm (fixed

Basic questions on base image creation

I have a pilot VCL setup with a VMware ESXi hypervisor. The hypervisor mounts a read-only NFS export from the VCL management node as "nfs-repository". Now I'm trying to stage and capture my first VM image. I've just finished creating a Linux system that I'd like to use as my template. I'm follo