[one-users] Add Volatile disk

Tue Aug 13 13:22:30 PDT 2013

I am going to need some help here -

This is my vmdk of my newly created VM in esxi

# Disk DescriptorFile
version=1
encoding="UTF-8"
CID=f1e2794a
parentCID=ffffffff
isNativeSnapshot="no"
createType="vmfs"

# Extent description
RW 104857600 VMFS "disk-flat.vmdk"

# The Disk Data Base
#DDB

ddb.adapterType = "lsilogic"
ddb.thinProvisioned = "1"
ddb.geometry.sectors = "63"
ddb.geometry.heads = "255"
ddb.geometry.cylinders = "6527"
ddb.uuid = "60 00 C2 9c 90 c8 f3 b6-e8 29 f5 b1 e9 06 1e fa"
ddb.longContentID = "b9be76ceadf9b33d726bc7f9f1e2794a"
ddb.deletable = "true"
ddb.virtualHWVersion = "7"
ddb.toolsVersion = "8300"

Note that the ddb.adapterType is already set to lsilogic

However when I log into vSphere, the disk is attached as IDE (0:0) and I have set image BUS and template devices as shown in the previous post about this

Is there an option I am missing somewhere that is not creating the root drive as SCSI?

Michael Curran | connectsolutions | Lead Network Architect
Phone 614.568.2285 | Mobile 614.403.6320 | www.connectsolutions.com<http://www.connectsolutions.com>

From: Michael Curran
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 4:08 PM
To: Michael Curran; Nicolas Bélan; users at lists.opennebula.org
Subject: RE: [one-users] Add Volatile disk

I thought I found the issue - Tried the following

In the oneimage I am using I added

BUS="SCSI"

In the onetemplate I am using I added

Under the DISK section of the template

BUS="scsi"

Under the RAW section of the tehmplate

RAW=[
DATA="<devices><controller type='scsi' index='0' model='lsilogic'/></devices>",
TYPE="vmware" ]
However I still do not get a SCSI boot disk or SCSI driver instantiated - anything I can add to this to help define why its coming up as an IDE root volume instead of SCSI ?? The original VM shows as SCSI.

Michael Curran | connectsolutions | Lead Network Architect
Phone 614.568.2285 | Mobile 614.403.6320 | www.connectsolutions.com<http://www.connectsolutions.com>

From: users-bounces at lists.opennebula.org<mailto:users-bounces at lists.opennebula.org> [mailto:users-bounces at lists.opennebula.org] On Behalf Of Michael Curran
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 3:05 PM
To: Nicolas Bélan; users at lists.opennebula.org<mailto:users at lists.opennebula.org>
Subject: Re: [one-users] Add Volatile disk

I think I found the issue - the disk is not attaching as SCSI - because there are no SCSI devices defined for use

Going to go back and re-create the Template and make sure the disks are setup to use SCSI.

Michael Curran | connectsolutions | Lead Network Architect
Phone 614.568.2285 | Mobile 614.403.6320 | www.connectsolutions.com<http://www.connectsolutions.com>

From: Michael Curran
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 1:32 PM
To: Michael Curran; Nicolas Bélan; users at lists.opennebula.org<mailto:users at lists.opennebula.org>
Subject: RE: [one-users] Add Volatile disk

More details now -

So, in Sunstone GUI I see an ID 2 for my volatile disk

When I add it as raw, I don't see it use /var/lib/one/remotes/vmm/attach_disk - just creates a raw disk and is done (nothing exists in the volumes)

It does not appear to use vim-cmd when it creates --

When I try to detach the the disk it does this

Mon Aug 12 08:24:38 2013 [VMM][I]: Successfully execute virtualization driver operation: attach_disk.
Mon Aug 12 08:24:38 2013 [VMM][I]: VM Disk successfully attached.
Mon Aug 12 08:28:59 2013 [VMM][I]: VM successfully rebooted.
Mon Aug 12 10:20:14 2013 [VMM][I]: Command execution fail: /var/tmp/one/vmm/vmware/detach_disk 'one-2' '/vmfs/volumes/102/2/disk.2' 'hdc' '2' 2 10.7.0.55
Mon Aug 12 10:20:14 2013 [VMM][E]: : Command " vim-cmd vmsvc/device.diskremove 20 0 2 /vmfs/volumes/102/2/disk.2" failed: Failed to find a controller with the specified bus number.
Mon Aug 12 10:20:14 2013 [VMM][E]: Could not detach from one-2
Mon Aug 12 10:20:14 2013 [VMM][I]: ExitCode: 255
Mon Aug 12 10:20:14 2013 [VMM][I]: Failed to execute virtualization driver operation: detach_disk.
Mon Aug 12 10:20:14 2013 [VMM][E]: Error detaching VM Disk: Could not detach from one-2

Michael Curran | connectsolutions | Lead Network Architect
Phone 614.568.2285 | Mobile 614.403.6320 | www.connectsolutions.com<http://www.connectsolutions.com>

From: users-bounces at lists.opennebula.org<mailto:users-bounces at lists.opennebula.org> [mailto:users-bounces at lists.opennebula.org] On Behalf Of Michael Curran
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 12:16 PM
To: Nicolas Bélan; users at lists.opennebula.org<mailto:users at lists.opennebula.org>
Subject: Re: [one-users] Add Volatile disk

Thanks Nicolas ---

But you cannot install packages into VMware ESXi , and I did add it as a raw disk - it does attach it to the instance from the console, when I look in the instance directory I do not see an extra vmdk file

Also looking at the edit settings in Vmware - I don't see an additional SCSI disk

Michael Curran | connectsolutions | Lead Network Architect
Phone 614.568.2285 | Mobile 614.403.6320 | www.connectsolutions.com<http://www.connectsolutions.com>

From: users-bounces at lists.opennebula.org<mailto:users-bounces at lists.opennebula.org> [mailto:users-bounces at lists.opennebula.org] On Behalf Of Nicolas Bélan
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 11:24 AM
To: users at lists.opennebula.org<mailto:users at lists.opennebula.org>
Subject: Re: [one-users] Add Volatile disk

Hello,

mkfs.ntfs is provided by ntfs-3g package on most linux.
You should install it and retry I think
Or perhaps (not tested by myselft) use a raw disk and format it inside your windows. I never installed windows on opennebula, I can not give you more advice.

Best regards
Nicolas
Le 12/08/13 16:45, Michael Curran a écrit :
I need to add a raw disk to be used with a windows VM - and this is the error message I get in the logs for the VM

Mon Aug 12 07:09:53 2013 [VMM][E]: mkimage: Command "export PATH=/usr/sbin:/sbin:$PATH
Mon Aug 12 07:09:53 2013 [VMM][I]:
Mon Aug 12 07:09:53 2013 [VMM][I]: if [ ! -d /vmfs/volumes/102/2/disk.2 ]; then
Mon Aug 12 07:09:53 2013 [VMM][I]: mkdir -p /vmfs/volumes/102/2/disk.2
Mon Aug 12 07:09:53 2013 [VMM][I]: fi
Mon Aug 12 07:09:53 2013 [VMM][I]:
Mon Aug 12 07:09:53 2013 [VMM][I]: mkfs -t NTFS /vmfs/volumes/102/2/disk.2" failed: sh: mkfs: not found
Mon Aug 12 07:09:53 2013 [VMM][E]: Could not create image /vmfs/volumes/102/2/disk.2
Mon Aug 12 07:09:53 2013 [VMM][I]: ExitCode: 127
Mon Aug 12 07:09:53 2013 [VMM][I]: Failed to execute transfer manager driver operation: tm_attach.
Mon Aug 12 07:09:53 2013 [VMM][E]: Error attaching new VM Disk: Could not create image /vmfs/volumes/102/2/disk.2

This is trying to use mkfs to create a NTFS volume, when you cannot do anything with VMware except attach a raw disk, there are no mkfs tools that will build and attach it as a NTFS volume

When I look up how to add a disk via ESXi command-line this is what I find ---- which is a completely different command than shown

It says add a disk to VM 16 that is 10g in size as SCSI device 0:2 using datastore1

vim-cmd vmsvc/device.diskadd 16 10000 scsi0 2 datastore1

The unique thing is though, that I cannot run that as oneadmin, because it fails - which means I cannot add a disk to the VM

# vim-cmd vmsvc/device.diskadd 20 15000 scsi 0 1 102
Reconfigure failed

And if I try to add the disk via vSphere , it cannot really add it because the disk currently in use is technically SCSI0:0 , but vSphere is still expecting SCSI0:0 as the next disk.

Does this sound like a bug, if so I can create a bug report on this instead.

Michael Curran | connectsolutions | Lead Network Architect
Phone 614.568.2285 | Mobile 614.403.6320 | www.connectsolutions.com<http://www.connectsolutions.com>

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