[one-ecosystem] vmware deployment problem

[Tino Vazquez]

Hi Paul,

Does "srv/cloud/one/var/images" exist, and is it writable by oneadmin?

Regards,

-Tino

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Constantino Vázquez Blanco | dsa-research.org/tinova
Virtualization Technology Engineer / Researcher
OpenNebula Toolkit | opennebula.org



On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Paul Piscuc <paul.piscuc at sinergetic.ro> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are trying to use the new method. The paths are:
> local images in : /srv/cloud/one/localimages
> local NFS mounted as test in ESX: /srv/cloud/one/var
> image repository path: /srv/cloud/one/var/images
>
> the onehost vmware.local works fine. Ssh to the vmware works fine also.Also,
> ESX doen't have any machine with the name debtest.
> template:
>
> NAME=debtest
> MEMORY=256
> CPU=1
>
> NIC=[NETWORK="Public"]
>
> command: onevmware register --disk-vmdk debtest.vmdk --disk-flat
> debtest-flat.vmdk debtest.one
> error:
> /srv/cloud/one/lib/ruby/OpenNebula/ImageRepositoryVMware.rb:59:in `mkdir':
> No such file or directory -
> /srv/cloud/one/var/images/e3a9e8d2cf347e141d4339325561a46e30fd18b8
> (Errno::ENOENT)
>
> Sorry for all the trouble.
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Tino Vazquez <tinova at fdi.ucm.es> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Paul,
>>
>> comments inline,
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Paul Piscuc <paul.piscuc at sinergetic.ro>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > We are using the new VMware driver, with mysql backend, but we're having
>> > serios problems when trying to launch and deploy the virtual machine. We
>> > have mounted NFS localy at ~/var/images, we have set in oned.conf
>> > IMAGE_REPOSITORY_PATH = /srv/cloud/var/images , in
>> > ~/etc/vmm_sh/vmm_sh_vmware.conf , the name of the datastore is test.
>> > When
>> > trying to register an existing machine on the ESX using
>> >
>> > onevmware register debtest.tem --disk-vmdk
>> > /srv/cloud/one/var/images/debtest/debtest.vmdk --disk-flat
>> > /srv/cloud/one/var/images/debtest/debtest-flat.vmdk
>> >
>> > the error generated is
>> > /srv/cloud/one/lib/ruby/OpenNebula/ImageRepositoryVMware.rb:59:in
>> > `mkdir':
>> > No such file or directory -
>> > /srv/cloud/var/images/447ae3c816e8ca89fc99edcb913d653767d066eb
>> > (Errno::ENOENT)
>> >
>>
>> The setup should be: the image repository being in
>> $ONE_LOCATION/var/images, and your local images in some other
>> location. The onevmware register will then copy the vmdk and the flat
>> files from that other location to $ONE_LOCATION/var/images. also, the
>> whole $ONE_LOCATION/var needs to be mounted in the ESX as the "test"
>> datastore.
>>
>> I see that the images are in " /srv/cloud/one/var/images/debtest", is
>> that $ONE_LOCATION/var?
>>
>> > Part 2
>> > When trying to deploy from a local path, using onevm create and the
>> > deploy,
>> > tm_clone tries the copy to a whole different directory then the point
>> > where
>> > the test datastore is mounted on the ESX(/vmfs/volumes/test):
>> > neb2:/srv/cloud/one/localimages/debtest
>> > vmware.local:/srv/cloud/one/var//5/images/disk.0
>> > And then the error:
>> > Mon Oct 25 14:53:58 2010 [VMM][E]: Wrong target value in DISK.
>> >
>> > source="/srv/cloud/one/localimages/debtest
>> >
>> > Maybe you can point us in the right direction.
>>
>> When using images in the "traditional way" (ie. not using the Image
>> Catalog), you need to explicitly set the "TARGET" attribute in the
>> DISK section (try with "hda", for instance).
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> -Tino
>>
>> >
>> > Thank you.
>> >
>>
>>
>> --
>> Constantino Vázquez Blanco | dsa-research.org/tinova
>> Virtualization Technology Engineer / Researcher
>> OpenNebula Toolkit | opennebula.org
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