Ah, thanks! Not sure how I ended up using the older doc. The new one sure looks familiar...
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 06:51:50AM -0400, Josh Thompson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Michael, > > > > You just highlighted a problem with our documentation. We need to get rid of > > the VCLDOCS site. Due to some ASF restrictions on how official project > > documentation is maintained, we tried having two wiki sites. This has not > > worked well and resulted in the VCLDOCS site being unmaintained. We'll work > > on removing that site. > > > > The up to date 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 > > > 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 following the instructions at: > > > > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/VCLDOCS/create-a-linux-base-image.html > > > > > > I get confused at "Add a New Image to the VCL Database". > > > > > > Does the "Image ID" matter, or can I just enter any number there that I > > > want, provided it isn't already listed as the image ID of another > > > system? > > > > > > Does the image name correspond to the filename of the VM disk image on > > > my NFS filesystem? Or is it just a name? If it's just a name, how do > > > we associate the virtual disk image with the image record? (I'm > > > confused because the example "vmwarelinux-base8-v1" doesn't look like > > > the name of a VMware virtual disk, but I don't know what else it could > > > be.) > > > > > > The instructions say, "OS: Linux under VMWare - NOTE: If you are using > > > something else, make sure you set OSid to correctly match the OS table." > > > Where is that OS table? Part of VMware, part of VCL, somewhere else...? > > > > > > The instructions don't say anything about how to stage the template > > > image. Should I just scp it to my VCL management node's NFS share? > > > > > > Finally, at the bottom of the instructions, we have "start vcld". If > > > vcld is already running, does it need to be restarted in order to notice > > > the new image? Or is that assuming that I don't already have a running > > > vcl system? > > - -- > > - ------------------------------- > > Josh Thompson > > Systems Programmer > > Virtual Computing Lab (VCL) > > North Carolina State University > > > > my GPG/PGP key can be found at www.keyserver.net > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFP1x9LV/LQcNdtPQMRAjcdAJ9LVyHVx7ykFyOEncyxf8yetfGoJwCeKWUZ > uN/HwUcxl3VfDUSb1zKDJAE= > =Bf6I > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- Michael Jinks :: mji...@uchicago.edu :: 773-469-9688 University of Chicago IT Services
