Re: VCL-2.1 and VMWare 1.0.10

2010-05-11 Thread Andy Kurth
I also installed a VMWare Server 1.0.10 intended to be managed via VCL-2.1. When I add a computer, I select 1) "Type: Virtual Machine" Several questions: 0) VMWare Server 1.0.10 is supported for VCL-2.1 right ? Yes. 1) When it comes to Provisioning Engine, there are no VMWare Server; on

Re: VCL Returns Private IP for Reservations

2010-05-14 Thread Andy Kurth
Hi Clifton, Can you please include the vcld.log file output from a reservation where the addresses are incorrect. Regards, Andy Clifton B Wood wrote: Hello, everyone. I've recently updated to the latest version of VCL that is in SVN, and now all of my reservations are returning the private

Re: VCL Returns Private IP for Reservations

2010-05-17 Thread Andy Kurth
re an easy way to fix this so that the provisioning engine returns the right IP when making reservations or do I have to manually reorder the network connections in all of my images? Thanks for any assistance you all can give. - Cliff Wood Morgan State University -- Andy Kurth Virtual Computing Lab Office of Information Technology North Carolina State University andy_ku...@ncsu.edu 919.513.4090

Re: sshd is NOT active on vmguest-41 yet

2010-05-27 Thread Andy Kurth
From the log output you included, it looks like the SSH commands are only working from the management node to the VM host vclesx02. The management node sends commands to both the VM host computer and the VM. It doesn't look like SSH is working to the VM vmguest-41. I would log in to vmguest-

Re: Vmware setup

2010-05-27 Thread Andy Kurth
Herling wrote: We are running the 2.1 code and have gotten bare metal installs working with xCat I would like to explore using vmware but there is no documentation on the setup that I can find can anyone help? Roger Herling Sr. Desktop Administrator Marist College PH: 845-575-3347 -- Andy Kurth

Re: Sysprep Winxp

2010-05-29 Thread Andy Kurth
The steps on the following page should be all that is necessary: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/VCL/Management+Node+Installation Are you having trouble with Sysprep? Just FYI - the code in the next release will make the Sysprep and management node configuration a little simpler. T

Re: Sysprep Winxp

2010-06-07 Thread Andy Kurth
Gerhard L. wrote: I never notice the sysprep run, the workstation also is not renaming itself. This is copied down during the base image capture correct? Is there anything I can look at to diagnose? - Gerhard -Original Message----- From: Andy Kurth [mailto:andy_ku...@ncsu.edu] Sent: Satur

Re: unable to retrieve management node information from database -- please help

2010-08-12 Thread Andy Kurth
ND managementnode.hostname like 'bester.lsit.ucsb.edu%' |24997| ( 0) utils.pm, notify (line: 737) |24997| (-1) utils.pm, get_management_node_info (line: 6737) |24997| (-2) vcld, main (line: 126) -- Andy Kurth Virtual Computing Lab Office of Information Technology North Carolina State University andy_ku...@ncsu.edu 919.513.4090

Re: VCL2.2 + ESXi4.1

2010-10-06 Thread Andy Kurth
It looks like you need to add the entry for your VM to the /etc/hosts file on the management node: 10.10.4.61 centos Once this is added, manually run the nmap command that failed on the management node to make sure it will work before reattempting the image capture: /usr/bin/nmap centos -P0 -p

Re: VCL2.2 + ESXi4.1

2010-10-08 Thread Andy Kurth
CL. I don't worry about that too much at this moment. I tried different settings when deploying the new image and they all failed somehow. Attached is a cut from /var/log/vcld.log, hopefully I can get some quick help from more experienced eyes. Thanks, John Ma sys admin Marist College

Re: VCL2.2 + ESXi4.1

2010-10-08 Thread Andy Kurth
when deploying the new image and they all failed somehow. Attached is a cut from /var/log/vcld.log, hopefully I can get some quick help from more experienced eyes. Thanks, John Ma sys admin Marist College From:Andy Kurth To:vcl-user@incubator.apache.org Date:10/06/201

Re: Image Capture Failed

2010-10-19 Thread Andy Kurth
Hello, I haven't tried using the vSphere SDK with VMware Server 1.x. I'm not sure if this will work. I would recommend uninstalling 1.0.8 and installing VMware Server 2.x. You should be able to use the 'VMware Server 2.x - local storage' VM profile included with the VCL 2.2 database. I'm w

Re: Change NetBios Name for vms

2010-10-19 Thread Andy Kurth
Currently, the computer name is only changed if Sysprep is enabled. I would like to add the ability to control whether or not the name gets changes independent from Sysprep and created an issue a few weeks ago: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-392 -Andy Kelly Robinson wrote: At what

Re: Change NetBios Name for vms

2010-10-20 Thread Andy Kurth
t;Duplicate Name exists on the network" shows on the vm when you view it through ESXi, which leads me to wonder if this is an issue. Kelly Andy Kurth 10/19/10 4:25 PM >>> Currently, the computer name is only changed if Sysprep is enabled. I would like to add the ability to

Re: VCL2.2 VMware ESX profile

2010-11-16 Thread Andy Kurth
Hello, I'm not sure if you have come across this page. I wrote it up a few weeks ago: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/VCL/VMware+Configuration The error doesn't appear to be the result of a misconfigured VM profile. It is failing to create an object connected to the VM host. I'

Re: Reservation always in Pending-state

2010-11-18 Thread Andy Kurth
Hello, Please include the vcld.log output. Regards, Andy Mauricio Cesar Ramirez Torres wrote: Hi, I'm working in a RHEL 5.5 VCL 2 VMware Server 2 Local Storage, all this is installed in the same server (Dell Power Edge R510) 2 NIC's, all was installed with the manual instructions, seemingly all

Re: Reservation always in Pending-state

2010-11-24 Thread Andy Kurth
ne: 281) |6232|1:2|image| WARNING |6232|1:2|image| 2010-11-19 11:56:47|6232|1:2|image|vcld:main(294)|could not retrieve request information from database |6232|1:2|image| ( 0) utils.pm, notify (line: 630) |6232|1:2|image| (-1) vcld, main (line: 294) On 18/11/10 18:13, Andy Kurth wr

Re: Reservation always in Pending-state

2010-12-03 Thread Andy Kurth
--+---++ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) mysql> On 24/11/10 08:02, Andy Kurth wrote: It looks like something isn't correct in the database. The reservation isn't being processed at all becaus

Re: VCL installation issues

2010-12-03 Thread Andy Kurth
Hello, This sounds like it may be a problem with the database. I don't think the Perl components have anything to do with what you're describing. Also, it sounds like the web components are working correctly because you can map image groups to computer groups. My first guess would be that th

Re: Reservation always in Pending-state

2010-12-10 Thread Andy Kurth
3:46:00|26406|vcld:main(166)|lastcheckin time updated for management node 1: 2010-12-03 13:46:00 On 03/12/10 09:06, Andy Kurth wrote: Hello, Sorry for the delay. I believe the problem is caused by the imagerevision ID. The value set for the request is 7 but there is no entry in the imagerevisi

Re: Remove Users from Administrators Group

2010-12-16 Thread Andy Kurth
This is controlled via the setting: Manage Images - Edit Image Profiles - Edit - Users have administrative access: Yes/No imagemeta_rootaccess refers to the rootaccess column in the imagemeta table. This only controls whether or not the users will be added to the Administrators group. -Andy

Re: Remove Users from Administrators Group

2011-01-06 Thread Andy Kurth
up? Kelly Andy Kurth 12/16/2010 3:01:21 PM>>> This is controlled via the setting: Manage Images - Edit Image Profiles - Edit - Users have administrative access: Yes/No imagemeta_rootaccess refers to the rootaccess column in the imagemeta table. This only controls whether or not the

Re: Reservation failed

2011-01-06 Thread Andy Kurth
Hello, Sorry for the delay. The "unable to determine datastore path" is a problem. What version of VMware are you using? -Andy On 1/6/2011 7:26 AM, Hicham Gibet Tani wrote: Hello everybody, We did fix the problem of copying the VM images. The image capture return an output describing t

Re: Reservation failed

2011-01-18 Thread Andy Kurth
There is a bug in the VCL 2.2 code that is causing the "unable to determine relative datastore path" problem. I have traced through the 2.2 code and the latest code and believe this has been fixed. I would recommend downloading and trying the latest code in the repository: -Install a Subversio

Re: Image Capture issue

2011-01-28 Thread Andy Kurth
It looks like your VM computer "xpbase1" hasn't been assigned to a VM host. Try assigning it via the "Virtual Hosts" link on the VCL website. -Andy On 1/26/2011 5:54 PM, Hayashi, Daiyu wrote: Help – need assistance with VCL 2.2 vHost on ESXi4.1 Issue with Image Capture for Base Image using

Re: Image Capture issue

2011-02-04 Thread Andy Kurth
abase disconnect successful 2011-01-28 11:32:04|4026|1:1|image|State.pm:DESTROY(946)|VCL::image process 4026 exiting 2011-01-28 11:32:04|3520|vcld:REAPER(745)|VCL process exited for reservation 1, PID: 4026, signal: CHLD 2011-01-28 11:32:04|3520|vcld:main(166)|lastcheckin time updated for managemen

Re: SDK can not connect to VMWare

2011-02-04 Thread Andy Kurth
Please include the vcld.log output. There are a few reasons why the connection may fail. It could be an incorrect URL, incorrect username/password, or the version of the SDK installed on the management node isn't compatible with the version on the VM host. I may be able to tell based on the

Re: SDK can not connect to VMWare

2011-02-04 Thread Andy Kurth
properly then think of a final structure. Greetings and thanks for your time. ---- *From:* Andy Kurth [mailto:andy_ku...@ncsu.edu] *To:* vcl-user@incubator.apache.org *Sent:* Fri, 04 Feb 2011 10:03:10 -0600 *S

Re: SDK can not connect to VMWare

2011-02-06 Thread Andy Kurth
ltime] => 0 [imagemetaid] => [imagerevision] => Array ( [4] => Array ( [id] => 4 [revision] => 0 [userid] => 1 [user] => admin@Local [datecreated] => 1980-01-01 00:00:00 [prettydate] => 1/01/80 12:00 AM [production] => 1 [imagename] => noimage ) ) ) [11] => Array ( [id] => 11 [name] => vmwar

Re: SDK can not connect to VMWare

2011-02-16 Thread Andy Kurth
iting 2011-02-08 10:48:14|4299|vcld:main(166)|lastcheckin time updated for management node 1: 2011-02-08 10:48:14 2011-02-08 10:48:14|4299|vcld:REAPER(745)|VCL process exited for reservation 6, PID: 7235, signal: CHLD 2011-02-08 10:48:14|4299|vcld:main(166)|lastcheckin time updated for management node 1

Re: SDK can not connect to VMWare

2011-02-18 Thread Andy Kurth
notify (line: 630) |29129|2:2|reload| (-1) State.pm, reservation_failed (line: 287) |29129|2:2|reload| (-2) new.pm, process (line: 332) |29129|2:2|reload| (-3) vcld, make_new_child (line: 595) |29129|2:2|reload| (-4) vcld, main (line: 342) On 16/02/11 15:21, Andy Kurth wrote: The image capture

Re: Errors with network cards

2011-02-18 Thread Andy Kurth
Have you been able to resolve this? It seems like you were able to get the image capture to complete based on other messages to this list. If you're still having this problem, please send the "ipconfig /all" output from the computer you're attempting to capture. -Andy On 2/14/2011 2:09 PM,

Re: ssh on vmguest

2011-03-10 Thread Andy Kurth
Hello, The code first attempts to run nmap to check if the SSH ports are even open. Based on your log output, this is where it is failing: "vm2 is NOT responding to SSH, ports 22 or 24 are both closed" Try running this command: /usr/bin/nmap vm2 -P0 -p 22 -T Aggressive If you get a "Failed to

Re: Fwd: Image Failing to boot up in VCL 2.2

2011-03-10 Thread Andy Kurth
There may be a more detailed error message if you try to manually power-on the VM from the vSphere Client. Also within the vSphere Client, try editing the settings of the VM. When there's a problem it often displays a more-useful error when you click "Edit Settings". If neither of these prov

Re: Window 7 x64 Sysprep.exe not running

2011-03-10 Thread Andy Kurth
Sysprep.exe may be initiated by quickly terminates due to an error. Check if the following log file exists and contains any useful error information: C:\Windows\System32\sysprep\Panther\setuperr.log Try running the command manually, trying to replicate the environment VCL attempts to run it in

Re: VCL fails to grant OS access

2011-03-10 Thread Andy Kurth
This was a bug which was fixed in VCL 2.2. You can resolve this by editing Windows.pm: -Find "sub firewall_enable_rdp" -Add the following line to the end of this subroutine: return 1; -Andy On 2/23/2011 6:30 PM, Kelly Robinson wrote: We've had occurrences where some reservations will load,

Re: dynamic vs static ip

2011-04-04 Thread Andy Kurth
the private interface? This is a requirement for VCL. I'm guessing DHCP isn't the reason your capture is failing. Please send the vcld.log file output and I'll be able to provide additional help. Regards, Andy Kurth On 4/1/2011 7:19 PM, Tyler Hardesty wrote: I'm still

Re: "Get RDP File" Doesn't work first try if too fast

2011-04-04 Thread Andy Kurth
I have seen the same issue myself. It's a timing issue related to the 'reserved' state. During this state, the vcld process loops until it detects a value in reservation.remoteIP which gets set when the user clicks 'Connect'. There is a 5 second wait in between attempts. This could be reduc

Re: Windows 7 and Windows XP give same error when trying to capture

2011-04-04 Thread Andy Kurth
Hello, I responded earlier to your "dynamic vs static ip" message before noticing this message. I think I see the problem. You seem to be using the same machine as the management node and VM host but the VM profile datastore path and repository path are the same. Configure the VM profile to

Re: VM video memory

2011-04-04 Thread Andy Kurth
There is currently no way to have the video memory set to a custom amount on a per-image basis unless you modify the code. A change was made from VCL 2.2 --> 2.2.1 to add the following line to the vmx file when it is generated: svga.autodetect = "TRUE" This causes the Video card setting to be

Re: windows 7 sysprep???[Resolved]

2011-04-04 Thread Andy Kurth
Windows 7 Sysprep is very problematic and extremely slow. I recommend not using it by configuring the setting Patrick described. As of VCL 2.2.1, you should only have to do this for bare-metal images. Sysprep will be disabled for all VMware image captures as of VCL 2.2.1. The Unattend.xml f

Re: Cygwin 1069 logon error

2011-04-06 Thread Andy Kurth
The password should be the actual password of the root account on the Windows computer. The quotes around the password are only necessary if it contains special characters. It looks like your cygwin-sshd-config.sh contains Windows line breaks. You'll see the 'unexpected token {\r' error when

Re: Fwd: problems with image windows 7

2011-04-06 Thread Andy Kurth
My guess is that it's a storage controller problem. Check the storage controller type that is assigned to the VM in the vSphere Client: -Select the VM -Edit Settings -SCSI controller 0 Try changing the type to LSI Logic SAS and then power on the VM. If this allows the VM to boot then the orig

Re: Windows 7 and Windows XP give same error when trying to capture

2011-04-07 Thread Andy Kurth
2:42|new|State.pm:DESTROY(858)|number of database handles state process created: 3 2011-04-06 12:40:08|1614|42:42|new|State.pm:DESTROY(886)|VCL::new process duration: 954 seconds 2011-04-06 12:40:08|1614|42:42|new|VIM_SSH.pm:DESTROY(1685)|vim-cmd call count: 13 2011-04-06 12:40:08|30717|vcld:REAP

Re: Windows 7 and Windows XP give same error when trying to capture

2011-04-12 Thread Andy Kurth
rocess duration: 957 seconds 2011-04-11 02:13:50|15920|53:53|reload|VIM_SSH.pm:DESTROY(1685)|vim-cmd call count: 13 2011-04-11 02:13:50|30717|vcld:REAPER(718)|VCL process exited for reservation 53, PID: 15920, signal: CHLD 2011-04-11 02:13:50|30717|vcld:main(167)|lastcheckin time updated for

Re: Windows 7 and Windows XP give same error when trying to capture

2011-04-13 Thread Andy Kurth
10 vcl last message repeated 2 times Apr 12 12:45:12 vcl kernel: device eth0 left promiscuous mode Apr 12 12:45:12 vcl kernel: bridge-eth0: disabled promiscuous mode Apr 12 12:45:12 vcl kernel: device eth0 entered promiscuous mode Apr 12 12:45:12 vcl kernel: bridge-eth0: enabled pro

Re: Windows 7 and Windows XP give same error when trying to capture

2011-04-15 Thread Andy Kurth
stop ; start RETVAL=$? ;; condrestart) if [ -f $lockfile ]; then stop ; start RETVAL=$? fi ;; configtest) configtest RETVAL=$? ;; status) status $dhcpd RETVAL=$?

Re: Unable to ssh from VM host to itself

2011-04-19 Thread Andy Kurth
I haven't seen this before but I'm guessing localvmhost hasn't been added to /etc/hosts. Whenever you see 'Name or service not known' it means hostname resolution failed. If you were trying to follow the "Configuring a Standalone VCL Environment using VMware Server 2.0" then I think I figured

Re: Blades running out of space

2011-04-19 Thread Andy Kurth
Hello, More information is necessary. Which files are taking up the space? Which provisioning module are you using? Which version of VCL and VMware are you running? -Andy On 4/19/2011 8:15 AM, momoh Ibrahim wrote: Hi Everyone, My university have VCL (using vmware) running on 7 blades, it

Re: Unable to ssh from VM host to itself

2011-04-21 Thread Andy Kurth
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/VCL/Configuring+a+Standalone+VCL+Environment+using+VMware+Server+2.0 Frento Burton wrote: I think I have fixed the problem, not sure what I did but I'm no longer getting that error message (maybe rebooting the machine was all it took). Also, where can

Re: Unable to ssh from VM host to itself

2011-04-22 Thread Andy Kurth
I haven't gone through those instructions myself. They appear to be quite dated -- VCL 2.1 and VMware 1.x. Some of the steps included are no longer necessary. The instructions on the page I referenced were written for VCL 2.2 or 2.2.1 and VMware Server 2.x. -Andy On 4/22/2011 11:58 AM, Fr

Re: windows 7 and dhcp

2011-04-25 Thread Andy Kurth
DHCP is never receiving the DHCPACK from the VM. It could be a default gateway/routing problem on the Windows 7 VM. You don't need to perform the entire VCL reload to troubleshoot this. Try this: -Start `tail -f /var/log/messages` on the management node -Log into the Windows 7 VM via the VMw

Re: Unable to create Base Image

2011-04-25 Thread Andy Kurth
I'd first fix the missing Perl module problem: > |14944|13:13|image| Can't locate HTTP/Config.pm in @INC (@INC contains:... Did you run install_perl_libs.pl? Did it report any errors? Which instructions are you using to create the standalone system? There are a few floating around. I would

Re: reservation failed after trying to load or make available

2011-05-05 Thread Andy Kurth
I came across this myself last week. It's another Cygwin 1.7 problem. When you run a Cygwin command such as sed and pass it a non-Cygwin formatted path you get this warning: CYGWIN environment variable option "nodosfilewarning" turns off this warning This is throwing off the post-load code wh

Re: VMware ESXi 4.1

2011-05-24 Thread Andy Kurth
We're using ESXi 4.1 with separate virtual switches for the public and private networks. Our hosts come up with the public interface receiving its IP address via DHCP using vSwitch0. It sounds like this is how yours is configured. The networking configuration panel has the following: Virtual Sw

Re: VCL 2.2.1 imaging reservation

2011-05-31 Thread Andy Kurth
It looks like you're running code newer than VCL 2.2.1. It's trying to call the Windows check_cygwin subroutine which I added after 2.2.1. Your best bet is to revert to 2.2.1. -Andy On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Kelly Robinson wrote: > I'm testing the "Create Image" from base image function

Re: VCL2.2.1 & Windows 7 slow boot time

2011-06-06 Thread Andy Kurth
I haven't experienced this. What is on the console during this time? Do you see the "Starting Windows" screen. Does it happen every time you reboot the VM or only the first time it is powered on? There may also be helpful information in the Windows event log. -Andy On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 3:25

Re: Console Error in VMware 2.0

2011-06-10 Thread Andy Kurth
I'd give up trying to open the console within Firefox 3.6. It won't work unless VMware updates VMware Server 2.x. This thread discusses it: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/252218 You can try to downgrade to Firefox 3.5 and see if it works. You can also try to run the vmware-vmrc executable

Re: VCL2.2.1 & Windows 7 slow boot time

2011-06-14 Thread Andy Kurth
performance state(s) > > 8 throttle states(s) > > --- > > Information 6/13/2011 4:21:56 EventLog: > > Event Properties - Event 6005, EventLog > > The Event Log service was started. > > ---

Re: VCL2.2.1 & Windows 7 slow boot time

2011-06-14 Thread Andy Kurth
Forgot to mention - also check "OS boot information" under the Boot tab.

Re: VCL2.2.1 & Windows 7 slow boot time

2011-07-08 Thread Andy Kurth
Am I understanding this correctly... on the NFS datastore with > 1G RAM, the VM boots slow the first time. Subsequent powering on/off through the ESXi console is fast. Is the speed also fast if you issue a reboot command from the Windows 7 OS? I would first check if ESXi is correcting something

Re: why does it take so long to provision a VM that already has the correct image on it?

2011-07-15 Thread Andy Kurth
Hi Roger, Can you send the vcld.log output for a reservation that should have been preloaded but reloaded anyway. -Andy On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Roger Herling wrote: > To be more precise Vmware esx local and network storage > > *Roger Herling* > *Sr. Desktop Administrator* > Marist Coll

Re: problems intsalling perl-CPAN

2011-07-15 Thread Andy Kurth
I haven't seen this before. You could try installing/updating the module listed in the error via the following command: cpan Scalar::Util -Andy On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Juan Jose Zamanillo wrote: > when I run the script for install  perl modules I get errors when the script > try to in

Re: VCL Bootcamp notes on creating base images

2011-08-10 Thread Andy Kurth
Hi Mark, It looks like the MAC addresses aren't set for the VM computer that is being loaded. This will happen if you attempt to add a single computer rather than selecting the "Add Multiple" option. There isn't currently a way to populate these values via the website so you'll either have to -ed

Re: VCL to MS Active Directory (LDAP) Authentication

2011-08-10 Thread Andy Kurth
Error 49 is often a problem with the format of the user DN. Try changing the line: "userid" => "sAMAccountName=%s,cn=Users,dc=hood,dc=edu", to "userid" => "cn=%s,cn=Users,dc=hood,dc=edu", -Andy On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Fay, Cornelius R. wrote: > Help Needed. > > > > We have a pilot VCL r

Re: "Until" not available in new reservations interface

2011-08-12 Thread Andy Kurth
Click on Manage Groups. Add the user to the "Specify End Time" user group. -Andy On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Douglas Dodson wrote: > Hi, > > I apologize if this is addressed somewhere, but I can't find it... > > I see some screenshots in the documentation and on the Wiki that show an > "U

Re: Error at 473 in /var/www/html/vcl/.ht-inc/computers.php

2011-09-13 Thread Andy Kurth
This looks like it may be a problem in the database. The line in computers.php where error is occurring is attempting to print out the name of the current image loaded on the computer. The ID of the image is 4 -- which should be the "noimage" image: Unkown error type: [8] Undefined index: 4 By c

Re: Error at 473 in /var/www/html/vcl/.ht-inc/computers.php

2011-09-13 Thread Andy Kurth
 | > |  7 |       7 |        0 |      1 | 2011-09-10 18:39:56 |       0 | NULL     >    |          1 | NULL     | vmwarewinxp-xp7-v0 | > ++-+--++-+-+-++--++ > 2 rows in set (0.00 sec) > mysql> > > > ___

Re: Error at 473 in /var/www/html/vcl/.ht-inc/computers.php

2011-09-15 Thread Andy Kurth
te ip address” > error occurred on 2011-09-10 20:51:53 > > Many thanks, > > Ibrahim > > > From: Andy Kurth [andy_ku...@ncsu.edu] > Sent: 13 September 2011 21:32 > To: vcl-user@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: Error at 473 in /var/www/htm

Re: Windows 7 SP1 boot hangs

2011-09-28 Thread Andy Kurth
I have also seen Windows 7 and 2008 R2 occasionally hang on boot. The behavior is very inconsistent and I haven't found a solution. I have disabled GUI boot and enabled boot logging via msconfig.exe on some of our base images to try to have a chance of diagnosing the problem. Hopefully the hotfix

Re: Help creating local users

2011-10-13 Thread Andy Kurth
I just made some updates to the install_perl_libs.pl script which may help to resolve your problems. Download it again if you already downloaded it. -Andy On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Aaron Peeler wrote: > If you ran install_perl_libs.pl, it's possible the epel repository rpm > failed which

Re: vcld setup error

2011-10-14 Thread Andy Kurth
I'm guessing it isn't able to connect to the database. You should see a list of numbered modules. What does /var/log/vcld.log contain? -Andy On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Evelio Quiros wrote: > Hello, > I am working on the initial vcld setup. > This is what we get when we run vcld —setup:

Re: vcld setup error

2011-10-14 Thread Andy Kurth
t; > # Database connection information > > # database: name of MySQL database (required) > database=vcl > > # server: IP address or FQDN of the database server (required) > server=localhost > > # LockerWrtUser: MySQL user account name with write privileges (required) > Lo

Re: Adding computer hosts

2011-10-19 Thread Andy Kurth
You need to add definitions for each VM. If you used the "Add Multiple" computers option, you should have been presented with the correct dhcpd.conf contents which you could copy/paste after the computers were added. You can still add the entries manually. The following page has an example of a

Re: VCL board report due on Nov 9th

2011-11-10 Thread Andy Kurth
I'll start working on it now. -Andy On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Alan D. Cabrera wrote: > We may still be able to squeak in.  Any takers? > > > Regards, > Alan > > On Nov 3, 2011, at 5:43 AM, Josh Thompson wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> The November board r

Re: xmlrpc

2011-11-21 Thread Andy Kurth
Try changing the X-APIVERSION line from 1 to 2: $header .= "X-APIVERSION: 2"; -Andy On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Mani Shafa'atDoost wrote: > Hello, > I just used your sample file to use VCL through XMLRPC, but I received > following error : > > Notice: xmlrpc: Unsupported API version, cann

Re: Joining a VCL Virtual Machine to an MS Active Directory Domain

2011-12-06 Thread Andy Kurth
This is a desirable feature. I would like to incorporate AD functions into the codebase -- possible for VCL 2.3. It is possible but there are many details which make this a pretty complicated task. Computer SIDs are an issue. Sysprep could be used to join the domain, rename the computer, and up

Re: Cannot make reservations with Static IP

2011-12-20 Thread Andy Kurth
I believe your default gateway value of 10.106.128.0 is the problem. This would be the network address for the IP/subnet configured for the computer: 10.106.128.34/255.255.254.0. The default gateway would have to fall somewhere in 10.106.128.1-10.106.129.254. -Andy > 2011-12-15 > 13:26:00|1470

Re: Capturing Windows 2003 Server Image

2011-12-28 Thread Andy Kurth
I have seen this before. For some reason, the firewall isn't enabled by default for new Windows 2003 installations and the firewall services aren't running. Enable the firewall via the Control Panel. Make sure TCP port 22 is open and that SSH is still working and then restart the capture process.

Re: KVM versus RHEV

2012-02-20 Thread Andy Kurth
I've been developing on Fedora 16 but as Aaron mentioned, it uses libvirt so the actual KVM interactions are abstracted and the OS shouldn't matter too much. The RHEV Manager uses libvirt under the hood to control VMs on RHEV Hypervisors -- which are running KVM. I haven't worked first-hand with

Re: NFS in multiple VM servers

2012-02-20 Thread Andy Kurth
I made some updates to the following page: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/VCL/VMware+Configuration See the "Network Storage Only - No Repository" example at the bottom. I think this is close to your environment. -Andy On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Mike Haudenschild wrote: > Hi

Re: VCL software licensing

2012-03-07 Thread Andy Kurth
Just FYI, the same issues apply to VMware View, Citrix XenDesktop, etc. -Andy On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Alexander Patterson wrote: > Hello Michael, > > We have %100 of the same model that you are using, we are working on getting > everything into complacency and we are running into big wall

Re: Xcat image capture issues

2012-03-07 Thread Andy Kurth
xCAT should be installed on the management node. It doesn't need to be installed on other machines. There are a few different xCAT installation instruction pages on their site. You may want to start with this simpler one: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/xcat/index.php?title=Basic_Install_D

Re: ESXi 4.1 image for VCL reservation

2012-03-29 Thread Andy Kurth
You could create an ESXi.pm OS module. It would inherit from Linux.pm since some of the Linux subroutines will work under ESXi. The module would reside at: lib/VCL/Module/OS/Linux/ESXi.pm Entries would have to be added to the module and OS tables in the database. Set your image.OSid value to th

Re: ESXi 4.1 image for VCL reservation

2012-03-30 Thread Andy Kurth
ould 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

Re: VIM_SSH failed to login error

2012-04-10 Thread Andy Kurth
Hello, Welcome! You do not need the vSphere SDK and you don't need to configure the username/password in the profile. All that is required is that the management node is able to SSH without a password to both the VM host and VM. It looks like this is working. I don't think the problem has to do

Re: VIM_SSH failed to login error

2012-04-17 Thread Andy Kurth
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 2:29 PM, B Hartlieb wrote: > Hi Andy, > > Once I added 'root' with an Administrator role to Vmware Server 2, as per > your suggestion, it worked. I was able to capture a base image. Glad you got it working. > I added the Base Image to an Image Group. > > Mmm, I am noticed

Re: Windows 7 and DHCP

2012-04-17 Thread Andy Kurth
A few things to try... Run the following command and then try to get a private DHCP address: netsh interface ip set interface "" ignoredefaultroutes=enabled This causes Windows to never route any traffic on the private interface through the default gateway. The VCL capture code actually sets thi

Re: Win 7 reservations sometimes fails with DCHP error

2012-04-24 Thread Andy Kurth
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Dmitri Chebotarov wrote: > Hi > > I'm looking for some help on this strangle problem. > We are testing Win 7 images on VCL system and sometimes reservation would > fail with this error (below). > It only happens sometimes for different Win7 images. > There is no p

[DISCUSS] Graduation

2012-05-01 Thread Andy Kurth
o be added. I'm not sure how the original list was decided upon, but I feel several names should be removed since they have not contributed any code and some have not been involved in the community at all. I think the list should be Aaron Coburn, David Hutchins, Andy Kurth, James O'Dell,

Re: VCL 2.3

2012-05-01 Thread Andy Kurth
Please send all of the vcld.log output for a failed reservation. -Andy On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Dmitri Chebotarov wrote: > Hi > > I've upgraded from 2.2.1 to 2.3. > Web and management node seems to be working OK - vcld communicated with the > database and front-end displays right informati

Re: VCL 2.3

2012-05-03 Thread Andy Kurth
(319)|failed to create >> > > an object to control VM host: VMHOST1 >> > > |16065|433:425|reload| ( 0) VMware.pm, initialize (line: 319) >> > > |16065|433:425|reload| (-1) Module.pm, new (line: 207) >> > > |16065|433:425|reload| (-2) Module.pm, crea

Re: [DISCUSS] Graduation

2012-05-04 Thread Andy Kurth
Hi Aaron, Thanks for the info. I started a "Rework the Apache VCL website?" thread a few months ago. I'm going to reply in that thread regarding the technical website details in order to keep this thread focused on graduation issues. As for the timeline, if the graduation process continues I'm g

Re: Rework the Apache VCL website?

2012-05-04 Thread Andy Kurth
specially if this the future direction. > > Aaron > > On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Andy Kurth wrote: >> The Apache VCL project website (https://cwiki.apache.org/VCL) could >> use some improving.  It is automatically generated from the Confluence >> wiki site (https:/

Re: Other Uses for VCL

2012-05-10 Thread Andy Kurth
NCSU is seeing increasing interest in using VCL for day-to-day operational IT tasks. We are currently investigating the feasibility of using VCL to manage some of the university's ERP infrastructure. If things pan out, I envision a future version of Apache VCL to include some seriously cool confi

[VOTE] Apache VCL Ready to Graduate

2012-05-10 Thread Andy Kurth
project 0 : ambivalent -1 : no, Apache VCL is not ready to graduate to a top level project This vote will be closed on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 at 5:00 pm EST. If this vote passes, the community will draft a board resolution and present it to the IPMC. Thank You, Andy Kurth

Re: [VOTE] Apache VCL Ready to Graduate

2012-05-10 Thread Andy Kurth
+1 -Andy On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Andy Kurth wrote: > This vote is to determine if the Apache VCL community believes the > project is ready to graduate from the incubator to a top level > project.  Everyone in the community is encouraged to vote.  Please > reply expressin

Re: VCL 2.3

2012-05-10 Thread Andy Kurth
o create >> > > an object to control VM host: VMHOST1 >> > > |16065|433:425|reload| ( 0) VMware.pm, initialize (line: 319) >> > > |16065|433:425|reload| (-1) Module.pm, new (line: 207) >> > > |16065|433:425|reload| (-2) Module.pm, create_provisioning_obje

Re: Windows 7 Capture Issue

2012-05-15 Thread Andy Kurth
It looks like you're using relatively new post-2.2.1 code but not the latest in trunk. The problem is due to a bug that has been fixed. The code is trying to run a command such as: cat "blah" >> "~/currentimage.txt" The ~ variable isn't translated properly if the path is in quotes: "~/currentimag

[RESULT][VOTE] Apache VCL Ready to Graduate

2012-05-15 Thread Andy Kurth
Yu Thank You, Andy Kurth On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Andy Kurth wrote: > This vote is to determine if the Apache VCL community believes the > project is ready to graduate from the incubator to a top level > project.  Everyone in the community is encouraged to vote.  Please > r

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