[one-users] Fwd: Register VM for ESX 4.1

[Tino Vazquez]

Hi Jonathan,

Have you set the OpenNebula local path that is mounted as datastore1
in the ESX in

* $ONE_LOCATION/etc/tm_vmware/tm_vmwarerc --> variable DATASTORE_PATH

?

Regards,

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



On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Jonathan Kelley <jkelley at vm-labs.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Tino,
> I think I am getting a little farther in that I was trying to use the onevm
> create <image> instead of registering (which worked but not sure it helps).
> However it fails to create the vm and I find this message in the
> vmm_vmware.log:
> [02.09.2010 11:57:44] Failed deploying VM 1 into
> 12core.xxxxx.com.Reason:/export/vg0-lv0/1/deployment.0 (No such file or
> directory)
> with these messages in the oned.log:
> Thu Sep  2 11:57:43 2010 [DiM][D]: Deploying VM 1
> Thu Sep  2 11:57:43 2010 [ReM][D]: VirtualMachinePoolInfo method invoked
> Thu Sep  2 11:57:43 2010 [TM][D]: Message received: TRANSFER SUCCESS 1 -
> Thu Sep  2 11:57:44 2010 [VMM][D]: Message received: DEPLOY FAILURE 1 Failed
> deploying VM in host 12core.boston.vm-labs.com.
> Thu Sep  2 11:57:44 2010 [TM][D]: Message received: LOG - 1 tm_delete.sh:
> Deleting
> Thu Sep  2 11:57:44 2010 [TM][D]: Message received: LOG - 1 tm_delete.sh:
> Executed "rm -rf
> /export/vg0-lv0/one-12core.xxxxx.com:/export/vg0-lv0/1/images".
> Thu Sep  2 11:57:44 2010 [TM][D]: Message received: TRANSFER SUCCESS 1 -
> Any tips with these messages?
> I have a single NFS mount on the ESX host as datastore1 and is a local path
> to the OpenNebula front-end.
> -Jon
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Jonathan Kelley <jkelley at vm-labs.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Tino,
>> Thanks for the quick reply.
>>  How do you specify a VM PATH though as my VM has 5-6 associated files?
>> Here is the example given:
>>
>> NAME          = "Ubuntu Web Development"
>> PATH          = /home/one_user/images/ubuntu_desktop.img
>> PUBLIC        = YES
>> DESCRIPTION   = "Ubuntu 10.04 desktop for Web Development students.
>> Contains the pdf lessons and exercises as well as all the necessary
>> programming tools and testing frameworks."
>>
>> For my Windows XP I have two disk files so how do I specify two files in
>> the PATH field? Or do I specify the vmx file?
>> Thanks again,
>> -Jon
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Tino Vazquez <tinova at fdi.ucm.es> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Jonathan,
>>>
>>> The way to use the image catalog is to upload individual images, each
>>> of them requiring an image template [1].
>>>
>>> One registered, a VM can use an image by just referencing the image's
>>> name (same as the VirtualNetwork from your template, using just the
>>> name "VMWareNET").
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> -Tino
>>>
>>> [1] http://opennebula.org/documentation:rel2.0:img_template
>>> --
>>> Constantino Vázquez Blanco | dsa-research.org/tinova
>>> Virtualization Technology Engineer / Researcher
>>> OpenNebula Toolkit | opennebula.org
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Jonathan Kelley <jkelley at vm-labs.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Hello,
>>> > I am trying to register my VM to use with OpenNebula and ESX 4.1.
>>> > I copied the VM folder to the shared nfs storage and then have tried to
>>> > create a template for this vm but I am not sure I have it right:
>>> > root at xxxx:/srv/cloud/one# cat /export/vg0-lv0/WinXP.template
>>> > NAME=VMwareVM
>>> > MEMORY=256
>>> > CPU=1
>>> > NIC=[NETWORK="VMWareNet"]
>>> > DISK=[ source="/export/vg0-lv0/WinXP_32bit_Dev",
>>> >        clone="yes",
>>> >        save="no"]
>>> > However when I run the register command I get image not present
>>> > messages:
>>> > root at xxxx:/export/vg0-lv0# /srv/cloud/one/bin/oneimage register
>>> > ./WinXP.template
>>> > Error: Image not present, aborting.
>>> >
>>> > It is not quite clear to me what the template should look like and how
>>> > to
>>> > register an existing VMware VM.
>>> > Thanks,
>>> > Jon
>>> >
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>>> >
>>> >
>>
>
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