Re: base image creation

Fri, 04 Feb 2011 05:05:32 -0800 

Jay,
Sorry - I realized I should have elaborated more on the errors in the log file. 

First of all welcome to the community. :)


VCL with vmware provisioning can interact with the ESX(i) server in a 
couple different ways. The first error below is related to the vcl using 
the vmware sdk perl tookit, for this you'll need to set the password for 
the ESXi server in the vmware profile in through the vcl web interface. 
The second is also related to the sdk perl toolkit, from what I can tell 
it looks like it's not installed on your management node. The third 
error is related to the next method that vcl will try to manage vms on 
esxi, it's trying to ssh into the esxi server and run local cmds such as 
vmware-vim-cmd to manage the vms.
This latter method is probably the best approach, if you can make sure 
you have ssh enabled on esxi and have your ssh identity keys setup. Then 
you should get further.


Again welcome and I apologize for the initial short response.

Aaron Peeler


On 2/4/11 7:46 AM, Aaron Peeler wrote:

Can you also ssh into the esxi server using identity keys?

Aaron


On 2/1/11 11:11 AM, Jay Diener-Brazelle wrote:

Hello, I'm new to the community here. I'm trying to set up my first 
base image and I feel like I've missed a step.  I have a ESX 4.1 
server with a Win 7 setup loaded on it.  When I go to create the 
image I get this sent to my admin email account:


VCL::image object could not be created and initialized

Time: 2011-01-28 15:39:59
PID: 22852
Caller: vcld:make_new_child(598)

( 0) utils.pm, notify (line: 630)
(-1) vcld, make_new_child (line: 598)
(-2) vcld, main (line: 342)

RECENT LOG ENTRIES FOR THIS PROCESS:

2011-01-28 
15:39:58|22852|8:8|image|utils.pm:rename_vcld_process(7221)|renamed 
process to 'vcld 8:8 image node1 vmwarewin7-testcap611-v0 admin'

|22852|8:8|image| ---- WARNING ----

|22852|8:8|image| 2011-01-28 
15:39:59|22852|8:8|image|vSphere_SDK.pm:initialize(1789)|VM host 
password is not configured in the database for the VM profile

|22852|8:8|image| ( 0) utils.pm, notify (line: 630)
|22852|8:8|image| (-1) vSphere_SDK.pm, initialize (line: 1789)
|22852|8:8|image| (-2) Module.pm, new (line: 159)
|22852|8:8|image| (-3) VMware.pm, (eval) (line: 1037)
|22852|8:8|image| (-4) VMware.pm, get_vmhost_api_object (line: 1037)
|22852|8:8|image| (-5) VMware.pm, initialize (line: 224)
|22852|8:8|image| (-6) Module.pm, new (line: 159)
|22852|8:8|image| ---- WARNING ----

|22852|8:8|image| 2011-01-28 
15:39:59|22852|8:8|image|VMware.pm:get_vmhost_api_object(1040)|API 
object could not be created: 
VCL::Module::Provisioning::VMware::vSphere_SDK, no eval error

|22852|8:8|image| ( 0) utils.pm, notify (line: 630)
|22852|8:8|image| (-1) VMware.pm, get_vmhost_api_object (line: 1040)
|22852|8:8|image| (-2) VMware.pm, initialize (line: 224)
|22852|8:8|image| (-3) Module.pm, new (line: 159)
|22852|8:8|image| (-4) State.pm, initialize (line: 127)
|22852|8:8|image| (-5) Module.pm, new (line: 159)
|22852|8:8|image| (-6) vcld, make_new_child (line: 591)

2011-01-28 
15:39:59|22852|8:8|image|VMware.pm:get_vmhost_os_object(977)|VM host 
OS object created: VCL::Module::OS::Linux::UnixLab

|22852|8:8|image| ---- WARNING ----

|22852|8:8|image| 2011-01-28 
15:39:59|22852|8:8|image|VMware.pm:initialize(254)|unable to control 
OS of VM host 192 using OS object: VCL::Module::OS::Linux::UnixLab, 
VM host is not responding to SSH

|22852|8:8|image| ( 0) utils.pm, notify (line: 630)
|22852|8:8|image| (-1) VMware.pm, initialize (line: 254)
|22852|8:8|image| (-2) Module.pm, new (line: 159)
|22852|8:8|image| (-3) State.pm, initialize (line: 127)
|22852|8:8|image| (-4) Module.pm, new (line: 159)
|22852|8:8|image| (-5) vcld, make_new_child (line: 591)
|22852|8:8|image| (-6) vcld, main (line: 342)
|22852|8:8|image| ---- WARNING ----

|22852|8:8|image| 2011-01-28 
15:39:59|22852|8:8|image|State.pm:initialize(132)|provisioning object 
could not be created, returning 0

|22852|8:8|image| ( 0) utils.pm, notify (line: 630)
|22852|8:8|image| (-1) State.pm, initialize (line: 132)
|22852|8:8|image| (-2) Module.pm, new (line: 159)
|22852|8:8|image| (-3) vcld, make_new_child (line: 591)
|22852|8:8|image| (-4) vcld, main (line: 342)

2011-01-28 
15:39:59|22852|8:8|image|utils.pm:delete_computerloadlog_reservation(6876)|deleted 
rows from computerloadlog for reservation id=8
2011-01-28 15:39:59|22852|8:8|image|State.pm:DESTROY(946)|VCL::image 
process 22852 exiting



I can SSH to the Win 7 VM from the management node.  Any guidance 
would be appreciated. Thanks.  Jay






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