On Feb 26, 2014, at 10:02 AM, David DeMizio <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ok..I'll try a complete fresh capture of base image, I tried to create image > via vcl frontend and when It asked me if I wanted to create a new image or > create a revision, I chose new image and same issue. Just to clarify, is the virtual disk located in a directory like so? vmwarewin7-SocialScience27-v5-000001/vmwarewin7-SocialScience27-v5-000001.vmdk And is that the location of the vmdk metadata file or the virtual disk extent? > I'll try it from vcld. Do you think I need to update the Perl SDK to version > 5.5 on VCL? > > David DeMizio > Academic Systems Coordinator > Office of Information Technology > New College of Florida > Phone: 941-487-4222 | Fax: 941-487-4356 > www.ncf.edu > > > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Aaron Coburn <[email protected]> wrote: > I’m referring to both capturing a base image through vcld and creating a new > image based off of an existing environment. I am not referring to creating a > new revision of an existing image. > > Aaron > > > On Feb 26, 2014, at 8:55 AM, David DeMizio <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Thanks Aaron, >> >> So from the VCL front end before going to manage ->create update images , I >> need to rename it in the edit details from the edit image profiles menu or >> are you referring to capturing an image from scratch(base image) and not a >> revision? >> >> David DeMizio >> Academic Systems Coordinator >> Office of Information Technology >> New College of Florida >> Phone: 941-487-4222 | Fax: 941-487-4356 >> www.ncf.edu >> >> >> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 9:09 PM, Aaron Coburn <[email protected]> wrote: >> I don’t use vmware 5.5, but on earlier versions that use vCenter, there is >> an issue where, if a virtual machine name is longer than 29 characters, >> vmware will silently truncate the name and append an incrementable >> (numerical) value. To a user of vCenter the name appears correct, though in >> the underlying datastore, it is actually different (even though the vmware >> documentation explain that any VM can have names up to 80 characters in >> length). >> >> I thought there was code in place to handle this, but I could be mistaken. >> In any case, the simple way around it is to give your image a shorter name >> when you initiate the capture. Then, once the image capture is complete, you >> can rename it to anything you’d like through the VCL web front-end. >> >> -Aaron >> >> >> >> On Feb 25, 2014, at 5:03 PM, David DeMizio <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hello, I'm trying to create a new revision of an image and it keeps failing >>> when it tries to reload. I think part of the problem is that the master >>> image file the it creates when it clones the source ends in 00001.vmdk and >>> VCL is expected just <name of image > .vmdk. any idea what might be causing >>> this? belong is a snippet of the log, please let me know if you need more. >>> FYI, We recently upgraded to esxi 5.5 so I'm trying to upgrade the virtual >>> hardware and VMware tools on the image.The golden image contains a file >>> like the one listed below but VCL is expecting a different name.. >>> >>> vmwarewin7-SocialScience27-v5-000001.vmdk >>> >>> |31438|19:19|reload| ---- CRITICAL ---- >>> |31438|19:19|reload| 2014-02-25 >>> 16:55:41|31438|19:19|reload|new.pm:reload_image(639)|vmwarewin7-SocialScience27-v5 >>> does not exist on management node and could not be retrieved >>> |31438|19:19|reload| ( 0) new.pm, reload_image (line: 639) >>> |31438|19:19|reload| (-1) new.pm, process (line: 291) >>> |31438|19:19|reload| (-2) vcld, make_new_child (line: 571) >>> |31438|19:19|reload| (-3) vcld, main (line: 350) >>> 2014-02-25 >>> 16:55:41|31438|19:19|reload|utils.pm:insertloadlog(3666)|inserted >>> computer=4, failed, requested image does not exist on management node and >>> could not be retrieved >>> |31438|19:19|reload| ---- WARNING ---- >>> |31438|19:19|reload| 2014-02-25 >>> 16:55:41|31438|19:19|reload|new.pm:process(339)|failed to load vcl-n-001 >>> with vmwarewin7-SocialScience27-v5 >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> > >
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