[one-users] Trying to run opennebula using VMWare on Windows

[Tino Vazquez]

Hi Manish,

The MAC address set in the VM network interface has to be used at boot
time to set the IP. Take a look at the last section of [1].

Regards,

-Tino

[1] http://opennebula.org/documentation:rel1.4:vgg

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Constantino Vázquez, Grid & Virtualization Technology
Engineer/Researcher: http://www.dsa-research.org/tinova
DSA Research Group: http://dsa-research.org
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On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Manish Sapariya <manish at gslab.com> wrote:
> I have made some more progress.
>
> After I carefully mounted the VM_DIR using
> CIFS option, I am able to start VM on
> Windows VMWare server.
>
> However the VM is not able to communicate to
> the other machines on the network. It seems
> to be getting the IP address, but not able
> to ping other server.
>
> Any clues?
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> Manish
>
> Office Phone : 46711053
> Extension    : #1053
>
> On 6/25/2010 3:48 PM, Manish Sapariya wrote:
>>
>> FYI.
>>
>> I got one step ahead. The problem got fixed when
>> when I deleted the windows host and added it again
>> using the exact name that it was showing in VMWare
>> Web UI.
>>
>> I had assumed that the onehost command
>> expects the hostname which the network can resolve.
>> However this same value is used to identify
>> VMWare server installation.
>>
>> So I am past the step of monitoring the windows vmware server,
>> but got stuck at deploying the VM. Following is exception
>>
>> ---- Debug stack trace ----
>> java.lang.NullPointerException
>> at DeployVM.configureNetwork(DeployVM.java:269)
>> at DeployVM.shapeVM(DeployVM.java:221)
>> at OneVmmVmware.loop(OneVmmVmware.java:167)
>> at OneVmmVmware.main(OneVmmVmware.java:57)
>> [25.06.2010 15:43:56] ---------------------------
>>
>> I will keep the thread updated as I make progress.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Manish
>>
>> Office Phone : 46711053
>> Extension : #1053
>>
>> On 6/25/2010 2:14 PM, Manish Sapariya wrote:
>>>
>>> Tino I wanted to confirm one thing.
>>> You have referred to documentation of SDK 4.0,
>>> however I am using sdk 2.5 as mentioned in the
>>> opennebula vmware page.
>>>
>>> Do you think things should work fine if I use SDK 4?
>>>
>>> Thanks and Regards,
>>> Manish
>>>
>>> Office Phone : 46711053
>>> Extension : #1053
>>>
>>> On 6/24/2010 6:37 PM, Tino Vazquez wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Manish,
>>>>
>>>> You are getting this errors because the VMware server doesn't have the
>>>> "hardware.memorySize" property, or, rather, it exists under other
>>>> name. My experience is that, for some reason, differente VMware server
>>>> versions have different property names (the OpenNebula drivers were
>>>> developed against ESXi).
>>>>
>>>> We are quite busy at the moment preparing the v1.6 release so I don't
>>>> really have the time to dig into this, but we would appreciate any
>>>> feedback. I think the VI SDK documentation is the right place to look,
>>>> take a look at the programming guide [1], and the API reference [2] (I
>>>> believe all the properties are listed here).
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>>
>>>> -Tino
>>>>
>>>> [1]
>>>>
>>>> http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vc-sdk/visdk400pubs/sdk40programmingguide.pdf
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> [2]
>>>>
>>>> http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vc-sdk/visdk400pubs/ReferenceGuide/index.html
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Constantino Vázquez, Grid& Virtualization Technology
>>>> Engineer/Researcher: http://www.dsa-research.org/tinova
>>>> DSA Research Group: http://dsa-research.org
>>>> Globus GridWay Metascheduler: http://www.GridWay.org
>>>> OpenNebula Virtual Infrastructure Engine: http://www.OpenNebula.org
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Manish Sapariya<manish at gslab.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> I have working setup of opennebula using VMWare Server on Linux FC 8.
>>>>>
>>>>> I want to run VMWare Server on Windows to use some of my windows
>>>>> servers.
>>>>>
>>>>> As I add the Windows host to list it fails to monitor the Widnows
>>>>> VMWare server with following exception.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ---- Debug stack trace ----
>>>>> java.lang.NullPointerException
>>>>> at GetProperty.getProperties(GetProperty.java:74)
>>>>> at GetProperty.getObjectProperty(GetProperty.java:59)
>>>>> at OneImVmware.loop(OneImVmware.java:180)
>>>>> at OneImVmware.main(OneImVmware.java:59)
>>>>> [24.06.2010 12:12:47] ---------------------------
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> As I see in the code it fails to check the "hardware.memorySize".
>>>>> Any clues? How can I figure if these perf counters are supported
>>>>> or not on windows?
>>>>> --
>>>>> Thanks and Regards,
>>>>> Manish
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