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I'm sorry for the spam on the other forum. [understatement] Since I do not have much experience in running a forum it's become somewhat messy. [/understatement] . The spam is being posted by p... See more...
I'm sorry for the spam on the other forum. [understatement] Since I do not have much experience in running a forum it's become somewhat messy. [/understatement] . The spam is being posted by people/bots that have been registering before the paranoia setting (approve all posts from newly registered users) went live... @Peter: I've made you a moderator. I'll try to keep an eye on the forum myself as well. Carl
Bekax, Can you check if the Windows 7 DVD has a UDF filesystem (good)  or an ISO filesystem (not good)? Carl
Hi William! Good to hear your enthousiastic about the project!  I've not been doing a lot of developing lately, but I'm in the process of going over all the different OS-es and see if they (st... See more...
Hi William! Good to hear your enthousiastic about the project!  I've not been doing a lot of developing lately, but I'm in the process of going over all the different OS-es and see if they (still) work. While I'm doing that I'm trying to see if I can get new releases of Fedora, Ubuntu, Redhat etc. to work. Answers to your questions: 1. To be honest I have not tried the ova version, the vmdk should work, at least it does on my workstation. 2.  Please keep sharing your findings! I did not get around checking out new versions of clonezilla etc. I see you did and thanks for the tips! I'll see if I can put together an update soon. 3. Please let me know how you made it work e.g. * Which CD/dvd image you downloaded * what kernel and initrd you imported, where they are on the cd/dvd * the kernel commandline you've been using * How you told the kernel where to look on the network for the live files 4. The Storage->Add is for adding extra (external) iso stores that work with NFS or Windows shares (they should not only have full control on the share level, but also on the file level b the way. And If that does not work try giving 'everyone' 'Full Control' on bothe the files and the share). As for the /local share: If you startup UDA for the first time you'll have a very small /local share. I won't be of much use, since it's only a few Mb and will not hold a full ISO of any OS... You can expand it by: * Turning off UDA * Adding an extra virtual SCSI disk * Starting up UDA * System->Diskspace * Choose /local and hit 'Expand' * Choose the disk you just added and hit Apply Now /local is expanded with the disksize you just added. That is how it should work but from you comments I guess it doesn't.. Can you check out the Systems->Actions and see if you can find the expand action there and send me the results? I read you've found a workaround, so if you want to stick with that, just go with it... You're right about the tftpd not following symlinks. I've been running into the same problem over and over again...  I've found though that it does go into directories that are mountpoints themselves, so you will be able to mount an iso file in there (e.g. on /var/public/tftproot/testcd ) an publish the contents over tftp in that way. 5. The problem you are describing sound like you've been facing a full system disk, so that some files were not able to save properly. I'm afraid I have no solution for that. I do hope you've made some snapshots of the UDA before the probems started... You can expand the system filesystem the same way  you did with the /local filesystem, just choose system instead of local before you hit Expand.. 6. UBCD4WIN I've never tried, personally I would try to get it to work by just booting the ISO from memory. That is possible in newer releases from pxelinux (it will load the ISO into memory over tftp, mount it as a CD and boot from there), but I have not looked into that very good yet... Bartpe is a whole different story. I tried to get it to work, but it does not seem to work very good in most cases. Some things to keep in mind: * Create a bartpe iso using the bartpe tools you can find on the internet. Those tools ask you to supply it with a windows installation CD. Feed it a win2k3 install CD (I use a vanilla, so no SP1/2/3, never tested it with those since I do not have them...). * When that is done, Feed both the BARTPE.ISO (filename must be uppercase, see release notes...) and the win2k3.iso to the uda during the import bartpe os (they have to be in the same directory to be able to select them both at the same time...) Use the same windows 2003 install CD you've used to create the bartpe CD. * Then don't forget to create a template for that OS (flavor).... * These day I'm not sure lots of people are still using BartPE, I guess the recent WinPE distributions give you actually microsoft supported tools to get the same thing working.... Actually the WinPE stuff is on each windows 7/2008 DVD in boot.wim. If you import a windows7 DVD and create a template on top of it, you'll end up with a WINPE configuration over PXE that will start an installation of Windows7. You can of course replace the winpe.wim the UDA built with another winpe.wim you've built with the WAIK or with the tools at reboot.pro. Let me know if you have more questions! Carl
Hi Adam, You may want to try to change /var/public/www/js/configuretemplates.js Change this line (around line 71) document.getElementById('advanced2').style.background = "#05057A"; in... See more...
Hi Adam, You may want to try to change /var/public/www/js/configuretemplates.js Change this line (around line 71) document.getElementById('advanced2').style.background = "#05057A"; into these four lines: if (document.getElementById('advanced2') != null) { document.getElementById('advanced2').style.background = "#05057A"; } Let me know if that works! Adam-CCPG replied to the discussion "Ultimate Deployment Appliance" To view the discussion, visit: http://communities.vmware.com/message/1764749#1764749
Zero bytes may mean that the filesystem is out of space. Or maybe manual configuration has a bug where it messes up if there''s more then 1 defined. Try removing the Dban entry and try again. Let... See more...
Zero bytes may mean that the filesystem is out of space. Or maybe manual configuration has a bug where it messes up if there''s more then 1 defined. Try removing the Dban entry and try again. Let me know if it worked! Op 1 jun. 2011 om 19:41 heeft PeterKuykendall <communities-emailer@vmware.com<mailto:communities-emailer@vmware.com>> het volgende geschreven: VMware Communities<http://communities.vmware.com/index.jspa> Ultimate Deployment Appliance reply from PeterKuykendall<http://communities.vmware.com/people/PeterKuykendall> in Virtual Appliances - View the full discussion<http://communities.vmware.com/message/1764728#1764728
Peter, Here's some thing you could check/try: Disk space: there may not be enough space to host the boot files of ubuntu. As a result the flavor configuration file may not have been w... See more...
Peter, Here's some thing you could check/try: Disk space: there may not be enough space to host the boot files of ubuntu. As a result the flavor configuration file may not have been written (bug). Check diskspace with System->Diskspace. If you're out of diskspace you can shut down the appliance, add a new virtual scsi disk and turn it on again. Then go back to System->Diskspace, hightlight the full volume and click 'Extend'. Highlight the disk you just added and click 'Apply' I remember making a sanity check for flavor names, but I think it was for windows only. You may want to try with a short name like ub101. That may work better. See if you can find the flavor configuration file. It should be in /var/public/conf/os/[flavor].conf In the Sytem menu you can go to 'Actions' and go to the details of the import ubuntu action (9801). That may give you more error messages that make more sense. More messages may be in the httpd log files: /var/public/log/httpd_error and /var/public/log/httpd_access You may want to try a supported version of ubuntu. Default ubuntu CD's wont work, you always need the alternate (default has no pxe files on it). Let me know what you found! PeterKuykendall replied to the discussion "Ultimate Deployment Appliance" To view the discussion, visit: http://communities.vmware.com/message/1763174#1763174
Once you've imported the OS and created the template, you should be able to fire up another virtual machine and press F12 there. Create an empty virtual machine with 1024Mb of memory, 10Gb IDE h... See more...
Once you've imported the OS and created the template, you should be able to fire up another virtual machine and press F12 there. Create an empty virtual machine with 1024Mb of memory, 10Gb IDE harddrive and an AMD network card (not the Intel E1000). Fire that up, Press F12 and you should get a menu with the only choice being the template you've created. Select it and press enter in order to deploy Solaris 10 X86 to that empty virtual machine. Let me know if that worked for you!
I found some time and added esx41i support to the UDA. Also decided this may be a good time to drop the beta label. So build 17 is the 2.0 final release. It's available at www.ultimatedeploymen... See more...
I found some time and added esx41i support to the UDA. Also decided this may be a good time to drop the beta label. So build 17 is the 2.0 final release. It's available at www.ultimatedeployment.org !
Personally I would create something with clonezilla or just a vey small linux distribution to drag the image over the network and dd it to the harddrive of the workstation. Lots of other peo... See more...
Personally I would create something with clonezilla or just a vey small linux distribution to drag the image over the network and dd it to the harddrive of the workstation. Lots of other people prefer acronis and other tools. Check out this post from aviadra that shows some of the configurations for these tools: http://www.ultimatedeployment.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=255#p528 Also, whenever you have something that will fit on a floppy you can use memdisk and load the floppy over PXE...
wasim21k, can you let me know what build of the 2.0 beta you are using? WindowsXP should work out-of the box, but judging from the seconds image it looks like something went wrong. Did you crea... See more...
wasim21k, can you let me know what build of the 2.0 beta you are using? WindowsXP should work out-of the box, but judging from the seconds image it looks like something went wrong. Did you create a template after mounting the iso and configuring xp? If so, can you attach the contents of the advanced tab in the template?
I found the problem, and fixed it. Get build 14 and you should be fine. There was a problem where not all 'variables' were replaced with their values. Would it be better if I upload upcomin... See more...
I found the problem, and fixed it. Get build 14 and you should be fine. There was a problem where not all 'variables' were replaced with their values. Would it be better if I upload upcoming builds in OVF maybe? Will that make life easier for everyone? Or is there a better way that you would recommend?
I reproduced the error and found the problem, I'll have to fix it later, but there's no real problem. It just fails to create a temporary (backup-) file and it wants to create a directory wi... See more...
I reproduced the error and found the problem, I'll have to fix it later, but there's no real problem. It just fails to create a temporary (backup-) file and it wants to create a directory with no name in order to 'publish' the template. Since manual templates do not need this stuff, there's no big deal, just some stupid error messages I'll have to fix...
Reers, Can you reproduce this bug? I've been adding, removing and changing (and not changing) templates forever but I could not reproduce it. If you can reproduce it, can you you please save th... See more...
Reers, Can you reproduce this bug? I've been adding, removing and changing (and not changing) templates forever but I could not reproduce it. If you can reproduce it, can you you please save the page-source just before you hit the Save button? And then send it to my Private Messages? It is probably something with variables I forget to save.
I tried with safari, ie and firefox on my development build and it seems to work properly for me. Did you know that: Filename for the bartpe iso has to be all-lowercase The filename has ... See more...
I tried with safari, ie and firefox on my development build and it seems to work properly for me. Did you know that: Filename for the bartpe iso has to be all-lowercase The filename has to have the extension .iso You need to build the BARTPE iso file with Windows 2003 SP2 (at least) I've uploaded a new beta build (10) that I have tested with. Please try it and let me know. http://www.ultimatedeployment.org/uda20beta.html
That's a known bug indeed, please check out on how to solve it: http://www.ultimatedeployment.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=328
That is a way, but it would be much safer to use the MAC address feature, so you would be sure that no other system trying to network boot would be wiped and reinstalled with ESX... Then you edi... See more...
That is a way, but it would be much safer to use the MAC address feature, so you would be sure that no other system trying to network boot would be wiped and reinstalled with ESX... Then you edit the /var/public/tftproot/pxelinux.cfg/AA-BB-CC-DD-EE-FF file (or whatever the MAC of your ESX host is...) But: editing and saving changes to the template in the webinterface would overwrite that file. So: You edit /var/public/cgi-bin/uda.pl and you change print MACFILE "default local\n"; print MACFILE "prompt 1\n"; print MACFILE "timeout 600\n"; into print MACFILE "default install\n"; print MACFILE "prompt 0\n"; print MACFILE "timeout 5\n"; This way, you won't have to type install... Once again: be carefull, if you let your system boot from the network, it will be reinstalled at every reboot... Good luck!
It sounds like the next-server and/or the filename DHCP setting is not received by the client. It may be that your WDS server prevents that from being sent. You may want to try to disable the w... See more...
It sounds like the next-server and/or the filename DHCP setting is not received by the client. It may be that your WDS server prevents that from being sent. You may want to try to disable the wds services temporarily (not the DHCP service) and try again. If that works you know what the problem is... If that does not work as well you may want to temporarily disable the DHCP service on your WDS server as well and try with only the UDA DHCP server. Then you will know if the UDA is actually able to pick up the rest of the process once the client can retrieve the pxelinux.0 file. (by the way: the last character in pxelinux.0 is a zero, not an o as in oktober)
Please check the following things: Are you sure that you've configured the DHCP server to include the 066 and 067 for the DHCP leases it gives to the systems in the UDA subnet? If I reca... See more...
Please check the following things: Are you sure that you've configured the DHCP server to include the 066 and 067 for the DHCP leases it gives to the systems in the UDA subnet? If I recall correctly you have to explicitly apply the new options to the subnets/ranges that you would like to use them for... The systems get DHCP leases from your MDT server, but will these systems be able to use (ping) the UDA using the info in that lease? Check the network mask, default gateway and ip address in the DHCP settings. Is there a firewall in between disabling the TFTP port for UDA? Good luck!
Mike, Can you go to the prompt and do cd / du -k | sort -n At the bottom of the output you will see the directory that holds the most data. Most of the logging is in the /var/log director... See more...
Mike, Can you go to the prompt and do cd / du -k | sort -n At the bottom of the output you will see the directory that holds the most data. Most of the logging is in the /var/log directory. If you're right about the logging then that will appear at the bottom... If you're still lost I'll go take a look.. Carl
Sounds like something went wrong with the creation of a temporary file to replace the /etc/fstab (I'm thinking maybe your filesystem is full, try df -k) this would also explain wy the os-list is... See more...
Sounds like something went wrong with the creation of a temporary file to replace the /etc/fstab (I'm thinking maybe your filesystem is full, try df -k) this would also explain wy the os-list isn't there anymore. The list is also edited/replaced by a new copy when you unmount/remove an OS. You may be able to find an old copy of it in the /var/public/tmp directory or try cp -p /var/public/conf/os.new /va/public/conf/os.conf you'll have a fresh list then... let me know if it worked!