Well, I think the base image is officially captured, but I don't seem to be able to quite make it work. I've repeated the capture a few times and always end up in a situation where, when I make a reservation for the image, the image loads on the VM and various other useful-looking things happen, but ends before the reservation is made available to me with this error:
______________________ 2010-02-17 17:01:23|16589|3:8|new|vmware.pm:load(848)|vmguest-1 ROUND 1 checks loop 19 of 40 2010-02-17 17:01:23|16589|3:8|new|utils.pm:run_ssh_command(6180)|executing SSH command on localvmhost: |16589|3:8|new| /usr/bin/ssh -i /etc/vcl/vcl.key -l root -p 22 -x localvmhost 'vmware-cmd /var/lib/vmware/Virtual\ Machines/vmwarewinxp-base7-v0vmguest-1/vmwarewinxp-base7-v0vmguest-1.vmx getstate' 2>&1 2010-02-17 17:01:24|16589|3:8|new|utils.pm:run_ssh_command(6262)|run_ssh_command output: |16589|3:8|new| getstate() = on 2010-02-17 17:01:24|16589|3:8|new|utils.pm:run_ssh_command(6276)|SSH command executed on localvmhost, returning (0, "getstate() = on") 2010-02-17 17:01:24|16589|3:8|new|vmware.pm:load(852)|rechecking state of vm vmguest-1 /var/lib/vmware/Virtual\ Machines/vmwarewinxp-base7-v0vmguest-1/vmwarewinxp-base7-v0vmguest-1.vmx 2010-02-17 17:01:24|16589|3:8|new|vmware.pm:load(857)|vm vmguest-1 reports on 2010-02-17 17:01:24|16589|3:8|new|vmware.pm:load(868)|sshd is NOT active on vmguest-1 yet ____________________ It tries for a long time to ssh into the machine, but doesn't succeed. I see in the vmware server console that the vm is up and running, but it can't be sshed into. When I try it from the management node's command line, I get "connection refused". Obviously, it *was* working, so I guess something went screwy in the capture process, yes? But, well, I haven't been able to figure out what. Thus, yet another message out to you. Ideas? Terry On 10 Feb 2010, at 0940h, Andy Kurth wrote: > It looks like the image capture was successful and the vmware.pm module had > trouble changing the file names to the new image name. I don't think it was > the result of renaming the VM directory. You had the right idea by changing > it to match the reservation ID. I think the problem has to do with the > original names of the .vmdk files which were named after the manually created > VM. What are the contents of /install/vmware_images/vmwarewinxp-base7-v0/? > > At this point I would manually fix the captured VM files. The .vmdk files > should be named vmwarewinxp-base7-v0-s00x.vmdk. Rename all of the .vmdk > files in the /install/vmware_images/vmwarewinxp-base7-v0/ directory to match > this format. Change the first part of the names but keep the 's00x.vmdk' as > they are named now. > > There should be one .vmdk file without the 's00x' part. This should now be > named vmwarewinxp-base7-v0.vmdk. This file needs to be edited because it > contains the names of the other .vmdk files. You should see an "Extent > description" section in the file with the original names. Change each lines > to include 'vmwarewinxp-base7-v0-x00x.vmdk' instead of the old name. > > Next, make sure the VCL 'deleted' column in the image and imagerevision > tables for this image is set to 0. In the image table, check id=7. You'll > have to look at the imagerevision table to figure out which one is for this > revision. The imagerevision.imagename value will be vmwarewinxp-base7-v0. > > Next, make sure there isn't a directory named '/var/lib/vmware/Virtual > Machines/vmwarewinxp-base7-v0'. There shouldn't be one but check to make > sure. If it exists, rename it for now. > > Next, cross your fingers and try to make a reservation for this image. If > you created and configured multiple VMs in VCL then another one should > already be in the available state and you should be able to make a > reservation. If not, change the state of your VM to 'available' via Manage > Computers. > > If you have trouble, the following will be useful: > $ ls -l /install/vmware_images > $ ls -l /install/vmware_images/vmwarewinxp-base7-v0 > $ ls -l /var/lib/vmware/Virtual\ Machines/ > $ cat /install/vmware_images/vmwarewinxp-base7-v0/vmwarewinxp-base7-v0.vmdk > > I'm thinking there's a problem with the instructions that caused this latest > problem. I'll go through them. Stating the obvious, but we obviously need a > much better way to create base image reservations.
