Replying to my own thread: >> (2) Any updates from an old issue: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org/msg00900.html >> The target is ESXi 3.5 host.
To get familiarity of the software, I've been using ESXi 3.5 local disk storage; so I specify the datastore to be ESXi's IP:/PATH. Hence, during image capture phase, the ssh commands seem to be going off to the ESXi host. The command seems to succeed all the time; however the return code is mostly 255 and sometimes 0. It's weird because I'm certain that commands being sent were successful; I reproduced it manually the weird behavior ( similar to http://www.mail-archive.com/vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org/msg00900.html ) I take that this is an sshd oddity on ESXi host. I saw entries of "localdisk" or "networkdisk" on vmprofile. Not sure how they are used. Is the setup of ESXi with local disk considered to be a supported option ? If so, how would I get around the sshd oddity for the ESXi's IP:/DATASTOREPATH issues during image capture ? Or I should do things differently for localdisk. I'll switch to NFS so that I can move forward. I wish to get some understanding on potentially what I did wrong or what I did was simply an "unsupported" setup. Thanks again.
