[one-users] Procedure to Create VMWare Images -- Need Help

Fri Apr 26 08:10:15 PDT 2013

Hi,

If you are using SCSI bus for your disks, try adding the following in
the VM template:

RAW=[
  DATA="<devices><controller type='scsi' index='0'
model='lsilogic'/></devices>",
  TYPE="vmware" ]

An effort will be made in next releases to make this configurations
available through Sunstone to make life a tad easier for users.

Regards,

-Tino
--
Constantino Vázquez Blanco, PhD, MSc
Project Engineer
OpenNebula - The Open-Source Solution for Data Center Virtualization
www.OpenNebula.org | @tinova79 | @OpenNebula

On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 5:00 PM,  <chenxiang at aquala-tech.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am now able to run images downloaded from the marketplace with ESXi
> nodes. However, I am still not able to deploy my own images. Probably
> there is something wrong with the way I created my images.
>
> This is the way I do to create my own images:
>
> (1) Install a fresh new OS (such as CentOS 6.3) via vSphere Client. The
> location of the VMWare images on that ESXi node is
> /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/CentOS-6.3, and inside that directory there are a
> bunch of files. When creating the VM I used thin-provisioning.
>
> (2) Create a tar.gz containing the CentOS-6.3 directory, and download it
> to the front end.
>
> (3) On the front end, untar the tar.gz. Then make a temp directory, copy
> the two vmdk files into the temp directory.
>
> (4) From SunStone, I have a datastore with DS_MAD="vmware". I create a new
> image inside that datastore by specifying the path of the temp directory
> mentioned above. The image creation process is successful. I look into the
> directory holding that image there was two files, one is
> CentOS-6.3-flat.vmdk and the other is disk.vmdk.
>
> (5) Then from SunStone I create a template with the image, and initiated
> an instance. The PROLOG work fine, but the VM won't boot.  Below is the VM
> log:
>
> Fri Apr 26 22:03:14 2013 [DiM][I]: New VM state is ACTIVE.
> Fri Apr 26 22:03:14 2013 [LCM][I]: New VM state is PROLOG.
> Fri Apr 26 22:03:14 2013 [VM][I]: Virtual Machine has no context
> Fri Apr 26 22:06:28 2013 [TM][I]: clone: Cloning
> opennebula:/srv/cloud/one/var/datastores/100/8597ded816959ceff6dfffd6ec3e61c2
> in /vmfs/volumes/101/152/disk.0
> Fri Apr 26 22:06:28 2013 [TM][I]: ExitCode: 0
> Fri Apr 26 22:06:29 2013 [LCM][I]: New VM state is BOOT
> Fri Apr 26 22:06:29 2013 [VMM][I]: Generating deployment file:
> /srv/cloud/one/var/vms/152/deployment.0
> Fri Apr 26 22:06:29 2013 [VMM][I]: ExitCode: 0
> Fri Apr 26 22:06:29 2013 [VMM][I]: Successfully execute network driver
> operation: pre.
> Fri Apr 26 22:06:40 2013 [VMM][I]: Command execution fail:
> /srv/cloud/one/var/remotes/vmm/vmware/deploy
> /srv/cloud/one/var/vms/152/deployment.0 vmware02 152 vmware02
> Fri Apr 26 22:06:40 2013 [VMM][D]: deploy: Successfully defined domain
> one-152.
> Fri Apr 26 22:06:40 2013 [VMM][E]: deploy: Error executing: virsh -c
> 'esx://vmware02/?no_verify=1&auto_answer=1' start one-152 err: ExitCode: 1
> Fri Apr 26 22:06:40 2013 [VMM][I]: out:
> Fri Apr 26 22:06:40 2013 [VMM][I]: error: Failed to start domain one-152
> Fri Apr 26 22:06:40 2013 [VMM][I]: error: internal error Could not start
> domain: GenericVmConfigFault - Module DevicePowerOn power on failed.
> Fri Apr 26 22:06:40 2013 [VMM][I]:
> Fri Apr 26 22:06:40 2013 [VMM][I]:
> Fri Apr 26 22:06:40 2013 [VMM][I]: ExitCode: 1
> Fri Apr 26 22:06:40 2013 [VMM][I]: Failed to execute virtualization driver
> operation: deploy.
> Fri Apr 26 22:06:40 2013 [VMM][E]: Error deploying virtual machine
> Fri Apr 26 22:06:40 2013 [DiM][I]: New VM state is FAILED
>
> (6) On the ESXi node, I take a look at the vmware.log, and found this:
>
> 2013-04-26T14:06:32.709Z| vmx| Msg_Post: Error
> 2013-04-26T14:06:32.709Z| vmx| [msg.buslogic.notOn64bit] The BusLogic SCSI
> adapter is not supported for 64-bit guests. See the documentation for the
> appropriate type of SCSI adapter to use with 64-bit guests.
> 2013-04-26T14:06:32.709Z| vmx| [msg.moduletable.powerOnFailed] Module
> DevicePowerOn power on failed.
> 2013-04-26T14:06:32.709Z| vmx| ----------------------------------------
> 2013-04-26T14:06:32.712Z| vmx| VMX_PowerOn: ModuleTable_PowerOn = 0
> 2013-04-26T14:06:32.712Z| vmx| MKS REMOTE stopping VNC server at 0.0.0.0:6052
> 2013-04-26T14:06:32.712Z| vmx| MKS local poweroff
> 2013-04-26T14:06:32.713Z| vmx| scsi0:0: numIOs = 0 numMergedIOs = 0
> numSplitIOs = 0 ( 0.0%)
> 2013-04-26T14:06:32.713Z| vmx| Closing disk scsi0:0
> 2013-04-26T14:06:32.713Z| vmx| DISKLIB-VMFS  :
> "/vmfs/volumes/5170f0fb-541ed8d5-abcf-80ee733ae51c/152/disk.0/CentOS-6.3-2-flat.vmdk"
> : closed.
>
>
> (7) So that look like that I am using BusLogic SCSI for my disk, but here
> is what I have in disk.vmdk, LSI:
>
> /vmfs/volumes/5170f0fb-541ed8d5-abcf-80ee733ae51c/152/disk.0 # more disk.vmdk
> # Disk DescriptorFile
> version=1
> encoding="UTF-8"
> CID=19bfd712
> parentCID=ffffffff
> isNativeSnapshot="no"
> createType="vmfs"
>
> # Extent description
> RW 4194304 VMFS "CentOS-6.3-2-flat.vmdk"
>
> # The Disk Data Base
> #DDB
>
> ddb.adapterType = "lsilogic"
> ddb.thinProvisioned = "1"
> ddb.geometry.sectors = "63"
> ddb.geometry.heads = "255"
> ddb.geometry.cylinders = "261"
> ddb.uuid = "60 00 C2 95 9d 67 8c 34-e1 3a 25 4d 3d b4 90 48"
> ddb.longContentID = "6bf0fc703c8f6b61e0bca38519bfd712"
> ddb.virtualHWVersion = "8"
>
> (8) Look further in deployment.0:
>
> <domain type='vmware'>
>         <name>one-152</name>
>         <memory>1048576</memory>
>         <os>
>                 <type arch='x86_64'>hvm</type>
>         </os>
>         <devices>
>                 <disk type='file' device='disk'>
>                         <source file='[101] 152/disk.0/disk.vmdk'/>
>                         <target dev='sda'/>
>                 </disk>
>                 <graphics type='vnc' listen='0.0.0.0' port='6052'/>
>         </devices>
> </domain>
>
> (9) That's all I have. What could be wrong? The VM images was created from
> the same ESXi node, how come it can not run on the same ESXi node from
> OpenNebula? Is there a procedure that I can follow to create VMWare
> images?
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> Chen Xiang.
>
>
>
>
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