Re: VCL image capture dies, failed to prepare vmx file

2012-06-26 Thread Aaron Peeler
Hello Will, You will want to disable the auto-assigned mac addresses from ESX/ESXi. Part of the requirement is to run a dhcp server on the management node, at a minimum for the private management network. With that when you add new computers you define your mac addresses upfront in the add

Re: VCL image capture dies, failed to prepare vmx file

2012-06-25 Thread William Robinson
hi all, new to this list. i have started setting up vcl here and clemson university and this thread has touched on one of the questions i had in trying to do so. do i assign mac addresses based on what esxi generates? if not, how do i map those correctly? thanks. will On 06/20/2012

Re: VM MAC addressing, was Re: VCL image capture dies, failed to prepare vmx file

2012-06-25 Thread William Robinson
thanks michael. will On 06/25/2012 09:58 AM, Michael Jinks wrote: Hi Will. I believe that VCL requires manually assigning MAC addresses when you generate the VM records -- you must use the multi-add page under Add Computers, and have it assign a range of MAC addresses. Note that VMware uses

Re: VM MAC addressing, was Re: VCL image capture dies, failed to prepare vmx file

2012-06-25 Thread Mike Haudenschild
Hi Will -- The MAC address range Mike identified below is the best to use. ESXi expects any manually-assigned MAC addresses to fall within the range 00:50:56:00:yy:zz and 00:50:56:3F:yy:zz [1]. (Note these are manually-assigned from ESXi's perspective, not VCL's perspective. VCL generates a

Re: VM MAC addressing, was Re: VCL image capture dies, failed to prepare vmx file

2012-06-25 Thread William Robinson
thanks. i'm not sure i want to blow what i have configured away. i have a colleague working on this with me who is pretty knowledgeable with mysql. i'm sure i can get him to help me fix these up. this has also convinced me to install phpmyadmin to

FIXED, Re: VCL image capture dies, failed to prepare vmx file

2012-06-25 Thread Michael Jinks
For the record: the trouble was that we didn't have defined MAC addresses in our database records for these VM's. Adding the MAC addresses to the computer database by hand fixed the issue. On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 04:53:40PM -0500, Michael Jinks wrote: Hi, all. Trying to resurrect a thread I

Re: VCL image capture dies, failed to prepare vmx file

2012-06-20 Thread Mike Haudenschild
I've run into issues adding new machines that have MAC addresses matching deleted machines in 2.2.1. On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Aaron Peeler fapee...@ncsu.edu wrote: I agree with Aaron C. and Mike. Another method, you could mark them as deleted in the VCL web interface and add new

Re: VCL image capture dies, failed to prepare vmx file

2012-06-20 Thread Aaron Peeler
ok. Then best bet is to update the computer records for the missing mac addresses. I typically use phpmyadmin or cmdline. I'm not sure what other tools are available for editing mysql db's. An issue with just deleting the computer record, is that there is also a record in the resource table that

VCL image capture dies, failed to prepare vmx file

2012-06-19 Thread Michael Jinks
Hi, all. Trying to resurrect a thread I started on Friday, subject 'Image capture succeeds, then fails'. Mike Haudenschild helped me narrow down the problem but so far I haven't been able to find a cause or a fix. I'm trying to capture my first Linux VM. Things go along okay through the