I was about to use if ($vm_persistent) check, i.e. :
if ($vm_persistent) {
%vmx_parameters = (%vmx_parameters, (
"tools.upgrade.policy" => "upgradeAtPowerCycle",
));
}
but $self->data->get_request_forimaging() may work better.
Thank you.
--
Thank you,
Dmitri Chebotarov
Virtual Computing Lab Systems Engineer, TSD - Ent Servers & Messaging
223 Aquia Building, Ffx, MSN: 1B5
Phone: (703) 993-6175
Fax: (703) 993-3404
On Friday, May 18, 2012 at 12:33 , Andy Kurth wrote:
> Cool, that's good to know. You could add something like this to
> VMware.pm::prepare_vmx
>
> if ($self->data->get_request_forimaging()) {
> %vmx_parameters = (%vmx_parameters, ("tools.upgrade.policy" =>
> "upgradeAtPowerCycle"));
> }
>
> -Andy
>
> On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Dmitri Chebotarov <dcheb...@gmu.edu
> (mailto:dcheb...@gmu.edu)> wrote:
> > Andy
> >
> > This is nice feature, I'll see if I can make it work.
> > Thank you.
> >
> > Also I've found .vmx option : tools.upgrade.policy = "upgradeAtPowerCycle"
> >
> > Adding it to .vmx file during 'Manage Images -> Create/Update an Image ->
> > Create Imaging Reservation' process should update vmware tools on the image
> > automatically during boot time.
> > I need to find the place in code where .vmx file is created for 'Create
> > Imaging Reservation' task and test it.
> >
> > --
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Dmitri Chebotarov
> > Virtual Computing Lab Systems Engineer, TSD - Ent Servers & Messaging
> > 223 Aquia Building, Ffx, MSN: 1B5
> > Phone: (703) 993-6175
> > Fax: (703) 993-3404
> >
> > On Friday, May 18, 2012 at 10:39 , Andy Kurth wrote:
> >
> > Many of our images have older versions of VMware Tools installed. I
> > don't know of any problems this has caused. Also, VMware Tools isn't
> > required. I only install it to make controlling the VM through the
> > vSphere console a little easier.
> >
> > If you do want to upgrade every image automatically, there is a new
> > feature in partially done in VCL 2.3 which may help:
> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-564
> >
> > It essentially allows you to drop scripts and other supporting files
> > in the appropriate directories on the management node. The scripts
> > are automatically run at a particular stage in the reservation. One
> > of the intended uses is to allow customizations to be performed
> > automatically before an image is captured such as installing/upgrading
> > software. You would only need to add a couple lines to image.pm to
> > enable this functionality. You would save the VMware Tools .msi and a
> > script which installs it in tools/Windows/Scripts/pre_capture. During
> > capture, the files in the directory are automatically copied to the
> > computer and the script is executed. Let me know if you want to try
> > this.
> >
> > -Andy
> >
> > On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Dmitri Chebotarov <dcheb...@gmu.edu
> > (mailto:dcheb...@gmu.edu)> wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > We plan to update VCL ESXi hosts and it will require VMware Tools update for
> > all VMs.
> >
> > I'm looking at different options on how to update vmware-tools on many base
> > images.
> >
> > One option is to use web GUI to create new image revision with updated tools
> > for each image.
> >
> > Other option would be to create temp. VMs using persistent disk images
> > pointing to base images .vmdk files, then update vmware-tools and delete
> > temp. VMs (in-place upgrade?).
> > This will probably require full shutdown of VCL system to make sure no one
> > is using any of the images during the upgrade.
> >
> > May be someone already done it and could share some recommendations ...
> >
> > --
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Dmitri Chebotarov
> > Virtual Computing Lab Systems Engineer, TSD - Ent Servers & Messaging
> > 223 Aquia Building, Ffx, MSN: 1B5
> > Phone: (703) 993-6175
> > Fax: (703) 993-3404
> >
>
>
>
