Hi,
I have installed VMWare Workstation 8 on my laptop. I am using Studio v2.5 to build a VM (which contains just the Ubuntu OS). When Studio is trying to provision the VM on the host (Workstation 8 on my laptop) it gives an error -
can you start the VM manually ?
taken from the release notes:
Virtual appliances created by VMware Studio 2.5.0.0 can be deployed on the following supported platform products:
Workstation 8 is not listed
Thanks for teh reply.
Studio cleans up the VM files on a failure. However I captured whatever I could as the build was going through and the VM mostly starts when running manaully (there were missing config files due to which it could not start clean, but I guess thats because of when I captured the files).
So I decided to try with another VM (not the one I am building using Studio). This other VM is also a Ubuntu OS only VM. I can start the VM from Workstation (Open Workstation from Windows taskbar and launch the VM).
I can also start the VM correctly from command line using vmrun ("FullPath/vmrun.exe start FullPath/VMName.vmx").
I also am able to run the VM successfully from cygwin using teh vmrun command directly ("FullPath/vmrun.exe start FullPath/VMName.vmx" - changing for cygdrive where appropriate)
However when I use ssh (from the cygwin terminal) to launch the VM using the vmrun command it fails (ssh user@server "FullPath/vmrun.exe start FullPath/VMName.vmx") I get the same error (Unable to connect to Host; Error: The operation is not supported for the specified parameters).
From the cygwin terminal I can run all other commands properly (E.g. from cyswin if I run- ssh user@server "FullPath/vmrun.exe" - this gives me the usage for vmrun).
Would appreciate if you can advise why vmrun does not start the VM via ssh.
Thanks.
just to rule out cygwin issues - what if you use putty ?
I get the same error from Putty as well
I just downloaded Studio 2.5 and wanted to test the same myself.
So far all deployments to ESXi 5 failed.
Need to install cygwin next - but that may take some time
Would appreciate any help you can provide with this. I have tried to find a solution for a couple of days without luck.
If there is any other place you think I can look for additional clues, please let me know.
Thanks.
next thing you could test is install a new VM and install Workstation 7.1 inside it - maybe it is really related to your version 8
Thanks. I will get the necessary setup done and deploy the VM on Workstation 7.
Hi,
After some effort I was able to get Workstation 7 provisioned within a VM running within Workstation 8. However, since I have the Workstation on my laptop which has VT diabled, I could not run Workstation 7.
I was able to finally complete a build and deploy it to an external ESXi host.
So the issue is either Workstation 8 or SSH, I will need to replace Workstation 8 with 7, which I will try after some time.
Thanks for your help so far, if you are able to test with Cygwin let me know of the results
I have one more question though. Why would the VM fail provisioning from SSH, but would work when provisioned directly from the Workstation (ateleast I was able to get further when provisioning directly from Workstation).
Thanks,