I have a pilot VCL setup with a VMware ESXi hypervisor. The hypervisor mounts a read-only NFS export from the VCL management node as "nfs-repository". Now I'm trying to stage and capture my first VM image.
I've just finished creating a Linux system that I'd like to use as my template. I'm following the instructions at: https://cwiki.apache.org/VCLDOCS/create-a-linux-base-image.html I get confused at "Add a New Image to the VCL Database". Does the "Image ID" matter, or can I just enter any number there that I want, provided it isn't already listed as the image ID of another system? Does the image name correspond to the filename of the VM disk image on my NFS filesystem? Or is it just a name? If it's just a name, how do we associate the virtual disk image with the image record? (I'm confused because the example "vmwarelinux-base8-v1" doesn't look like the name of a VMware virtual disk, but I don't know what else it could be.) The instructions say, "OS: Linux under VMWare - NOTE: If you are using something else, make sure you set OSid to correctly match the OS table." Where is that OS table? Part of VMware, part of VCL, somewhere else...? The instructions don't say anything about how to stage the template image. Should I just scp it to my VCL management node's NFS share? Finally, at the bottom of the instructions, we have "start vcld". If vcld is already running, does it need to be restarted in order to notice the new image? Or is that assuming that I don't already have a running vcl system? -- Michael Jinks :: mji...@uchicago.edu University of Chicago IT Services
