Has anyone written a provisioning module to deploy Mac OS-X images on the VCL?
I know very little about Mac but it appears to be very Unix-like under the
covers.
Mike Waldron
Systems Specialist
ITS Research Computing
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
CB 3420, ITS Manning, Rm 2509
919-9
Mac OS X.
-david
On 2011.03.28, at 15:50, Mark Gardner wrote:
The main problem is that Apple's license does not allow it.
Mark
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Waldron, Michael H
mailto:mwald...@email.unc.edu>> wrote:
Has anyone written a provisioning module to deploy Mac OS-X images
Has anyone used the free version of VMware ESXi 4.1?
I started playing with it to possibly use with our VCL after it's been upgraded
to 2.2.1, however I can't figure out how to get both our public and private
networks defined on it. After initial install on a blade, it configures the
public int
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From: Waldron, Michael H [mailto:mwald...@email.unc.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 07:07 AM
To: vcl-user@incubator.apache.org
Subject: VMware ESXi 4.1
Has anyone used the free version of VMware ESXi 4.1?
I started playing with it to pos
Pv4 255.255.254.0
152.7.99.255 150065535 trueDHCP
vmk1 VMkernelIPv4 255.255.240.0
10.10.15.255 150065535 trueSTATIC
-Andy
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Waldron, Michael H
wrote:
> Has anyone used the free version of VMware ESXi 4.
So VCL 2.2.1 has added a great feature of allowing users to request block
allocations directly from the menus. I noticed that when I accept a request, it
gets entered into the blockRequest table, and also related tables such as
blockWebTimes, blockWebDate, and blockTimes get populated accordingl
ut doesn't have adequate permissions to manage it, resulting in
a block allocation that cannot be managed at all.
So, you have to make sure you select an admin user group to be the managing
user group when you accept it. This will be fixed in 2.3.
Josh
On Thursday June 16, 2011, Waldron,
: 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
installed?
Josh
On Monday June 20, 2011, Waldron, Michael H wrote:
> I have a block allocation setup for 16 machines. When it was processed this
> morning, I received 6 emails identical to the one below with an error
> about table VMhostCheck already existing. When I look in the
> bl
tch < /tmp/vmhostcheck_fix.patch
You don't need to restart anything after applying the patch. utils.php is the
only file it will modify. It's always a good idea to make a backup copy of a
file before applying a patch.
Josh
On Monday June 20, 2011, Waldron, Michael H wrote:
> It is 2.2.1
Does the MAXVMLIMIT parameter in the conf.php file set, as the name implies,
the maximum number of virtual machine reservations that can be run at a time?
Mike Waldron
Systems Specialist
ITS Research Computing
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
CB #3420, ITS Manning, Rm 2509
919-962-9778
I have noticed a problem with time display on some images when they are run on
VMware ESXi hosts vs. VMware Server 1.08 hosts.
A Windows 7 image reports the correct time when run on a VMware Server 1.08
host, however the same image running on an ESXi host reports the time 4 hours
ahead (GMT), a
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
facult
Re: Block Allocation
Thanks Mike, I'll give this a try.
I've noticed that anyone can make a Block Allocation request. Can this be
limited so that only those within a particular group (faculty) can make the
request?
Kelly
From: "Waldron, Michael H"
mailto:mwald...@email
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 pre-SP
not resolve to anything. Which causes dhcp to clear the
'netbios-name-servers' (aka WINS) setting if it is globally set.
Maybe this will help
__Jim
On 9/22/2011 11:53 AM, Waldron, Michael H wrote:
> I've been running Windows 7 images on ESXi 4.1 hosts in our VCL without
> p
n't explain why sometimes its fast 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 re
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 Message--
I like option 1 as well, don't care about the groups after block allocations
are done. For repeating uses from semester to semester, we just flush the
membership from class groups and load new users.
Mike Waldron
Systems Specialist
ITS Research Computing
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hi
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"
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 image,
Mike,
1. I'm not aware of a load balancing capability in the VCL, in terms of
spreading out reservations on servers across hypervisors. Although we have 224
VMs in our environment spread across 24 vmhosts, and the randomness of it seems
to suffice. We don't have the VM's assigned in order, i.e.
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 |
d
vcl.imagemeta tables, but this didn't work.
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
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 image
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
mailto:mwald...@email.unc.edu>> wrote:
Alex
In our case, we really haven't had to do anything special in regards to
licensing.
For Microso
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 start
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 pro
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
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