[one-users] cannot use a iso based cdrom in vmware

[Tino Vazquez]

Hi Carlos,

Couple of questions:

 * What are the contents of /var/lib/vmware/VirtualMachines/566/images/disk.0?

 * I take it that /tmp/iso is a file, could you rename it to
"something.iso" and try again?

Regards,

-Tino

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



On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Carlos A. <caralla at upv.es> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> for generated domain:
> ----------------------cut here--------------------------------
> <domain type='vmware'>
> <name>one-566</name>
> <vcpu>1</vcpu>
> <memory>262144</memory>
> <os>
> <type arch='i686'>hvm</type>
> </os>
> <devices>
> <disk type='file' device='cdrom'>
> <source file='[standard] 566/images/iso'/>
> <target dev='hda' bus='ide'/>
> <driver name='raw'/>
> </disk>
> </devices>
> </domain>
> ----------------------cut here--------------------------------
>
> now I get the next error:
>
> $ /srv/cloud/one/bin/tty_expect -u myadmin -p XXXXXX virsh -c
> gsx://myhost?no_verify=1 define /srv/cloud/one/var/566/deployment.0
>
> error: Failed to define domain from /srv/cloud/one/var/566/deployment.0
> error: internal error Image file for IDE cdrom 'hda' has unsupported suffix,
> expecting '.iso'
>
> The files have been properly copied but in fact they have a name other than
> *.iso. What I have in the VMWare repository is
>
> myadmin at myhost:/var/lib/vmware/VirtualMachines/566/images$ ls -l
> total 4
> drwxrwxrwx 2 myadmin myadmin 4096 2011-05-17 17:03 disk.0
>
> As you can see cdrom file types are not properly copied.
>
> It seems to be easy to find a workaround (just rename the file in case that
> it is a cdrom type), but also use the proper file name. But currently vmware
> files are transfered in a different way (they are stored into folders to
> deal with parted disk files).
>
> Regards,
> Carlos A.
>
> El 17/05/2011 15:33, Tino Vazquez escribió:
>>
>> Hi Carlos,
>>
>> thanks for your feedback! This looks like a bug. Could you please try
>> changing src/vmm/LibVirtDriverVMware.cc:
>>
>>    * add this include at the beginning
>>
>> #include<unistd.h>
>>
>>    * replace line 222 (file<<  "\t\t\t<source file='"<<  source<<
>> "'/>"<<  endl;)  with the following:
>>
>>             file<<  "\t\t\t<source file=["<<   datastore<<  "] "<<
>> vm->get_oid()
>>                  <<  "/images/"<<  basename((char *)source.c_str())<<
>>  "'/>"<<  endl;
>>
>>
>> You will need to recompile ONE and restart it.
>>
>> If this works, please come back and I'll open a ticket and fix this
>> issue in the repo.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> -Tino
>>
>> --
>> Constantino Vázquez Blanco | dsa-research.org/tinova
>> Virtualization Technology Engineer / Researcher
>> OpenNebula Toolkit | opennebula.org
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Carlos A.<caralla at upv.es>  wrote:
>>>
>>> A template like this
>>>
>>> -----------cut here-------------------
>>>
>>> NAME = vm-vmware
>>>
>>> VCPU    = 1
>>> MEMORY = 512
>>> OS = [ ARCH = "i686" ]
>>>
>>> DISK = [
>>>        source = "/tmp/iso" ,
>>>        target="hda",
>>>        bus="ide",
>>>        type="cdrom"
>>> ]
>>>
>>> -----------cut here-------------------
>>>
>>> generates a deployment file like this one
>>>
>>> -----------cut here-------------------
>>>
>>> <domain type='vmware'>
>>> <name>one-559</name>
>>> <vcpu>1</vcpu>
>>> <memory>524288</memory>
>>> <os>
>>> <type arch='i686'>hvm</type>
>>> </os>
>>> <devices>
>>> <disk type='file' device='cdrom'>
>>> <source file='/tmp/iso'/>
>>> <target dev='hda' bus='ide'/>
>>> <driver name='raw'/>
>>> </disk>
>>> </devices>
>>> </domain>
>>>
>>> -----------cut here-------------------
>>>
>>> The problem is the line that states<source file='/tmp/iso'/>  while it
>>> should state<source file='[datastore] path/to/iso'/>  or something like
>>> that.
>>>
>>> I found that file "LibVirtDriverVMware.cc" does not generate the proper
>>> datastore substitution, although ISO file is copied.
>>>
>>> Is there any way to make isos work in vmware?
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
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