[one-users] ONE and VMWare: configuring contextualization

[Nikola Milutinovic]

Hi all.

I have OpenNebula 1.4b and 2 x VMWare ESX server. Disk sharing is via 
NFS. VM manipulation is mostly working. Creating, deploying, listing 
hosts and VMs is fine.

I would like to setup contextualization in this scenario, but I am 
running into missing pieces, I would say. It seams to me that some piece 
of the puzzle is missing for VMWare.

This is our template file:
===============================================
MEMORY=512
CPU=1

DISK = [
       source="/srv/cloud/images/vmt-linux-ubuntu9",
       clone="yes",
       save="yes"
]

CONTEXT = [
        admin_user      = "admin",
        admin_pass      = "admin",
        admin_group     = "admin",
        files           = 
"/srv/cloud/contexts/vmt-linux-ubuntu9/setup_admin.sh 
/srv/cloud/contexts/vmt-linux-ubuntu9/cleanup.sh",
        target          = "hdb"
]
===============================================

When I deploy an instance using this template this is what appears in 
the log:

[TM][D]: Message received: LOG - 69 tm_clone.sh: 
vadmin:/srv/cloud/images/vmt-linux-ubuntu9 
gc2.levi9.com:/srv/cloud/one/var/69/images/disk.0
[TM][D]: Message received: LOG - 69 tm_clone.sh: Cloning 
vadmin:/srv/cloud/images/vmt-linux-ubuntu9
[TM][D]: Message received: LOG - 69 tm_context.sh: Executed "mkdir -p 
/srv/cloud/one/var/69/images/isofiles".
[TM][D]: Message received: LOG - 69 tm_context.sh: Executed "cp -R 
/srv/cloud/one/var/69/context.sh /srv/cloud/one/var/69/images/isofiles".
[TM][D]: Message received: LOG - 69 tm_context.sh: Executed "cp -R 
/srv/cloud/contexts/vmt-linux-ubuntu9/setup_admin.sh 
/srv/cloud/one/var/69/images/isofiles".
[TM][D]: Message received: LOG - 69 tm_context.sh: Executed "cp -R 
/srv/cloud/contexts/vmt-linux-ubuntu9/cleanup.sh 
/srv/cloud/one/var/69/images/isofiles".
[TM][D]: Message received: LOG - 69 tm_context.sh: Executed "cp -R 
/srv/cloud/contexts/vmt-linux-ubuntu9/run.sh 
/srv/cloud/one/var/69/images/isofiles".
[TM][D]: Message received: LOG - 69 tm_context.sh: Executed "mkisofs -o 
/srv/cloud/one/var/69/images/disk.1 -J -R 
/srv/cloud/one/var/69/images/isofiles".
[TM][D]: Message received: LOG - 69 tm_context.sh: Executed "rm -rf 
/srv/cloud/one/var/69/images/isofiles".
[TM][D]: Message received: TRANSFER SUCCESS 69 -
[VMM][D]: Message received: DEPLOY SUCCESS 69 one-69-69
[VMM][D]: Message received: dddd

The machine is started just fine, but the ISO file, here named "disk.1" 
is not copied to ${ONE_LOCATION}/var/one-69. Furthermore, there is no 
change in VM's devices, the old CD-ROM is still a "raw-device", just as 
it was. I would expect OpenNebula to alter the VMX file of the virtual 
machine and to set the existing or an additional CD/ROM to be served 
from that ISO file. This is not happening.

Now, if I log into VMWare management console and manually set the the 
CD-ROM device to be "ISO file" and point it to the "disk.1", I can mount 
that ISO file in Ubuntu.

So, the one piece of the puzzle that seams to be missing, IMO, is some 
part of the code to either manipulate VMX file and define a CD-ROM, or 
to issue a Web Service request to VMWare, via VIM 2.5 API to do this.

So, guys, what would be your take on this issue?

Nix.
-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / Kind regards,
Nikola Milutinovic
Sr Java Developer
Levi9 Global Sourcing
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