Greetings
We have developed a perl script in Linux that uses ovftools to deploy our VMs onto a vCenter installation. We recently tried this on a new customers lab and ran into a weird error not seen before. The issue is when ovftool is called to deploy the VM it starts fine and a see the VM created in vCenter but after a period of time I have seen a couple different errors:
One time the error was:
mtc@orchestrator-vm-pristine:~$ ovftool --noSSLVerify --net:'data=data' --net:'ipc=ipc' --net:'mgmt=mgmt' --datastore='datastore1 (4)' --name='vmme01-mgmt-1' --machineOutput "/usr/local/epc/data/working/b98d9334-c966-4ff8-a2d3-ab8bcff6a3d8/epc-os-mgmt-vm/epc-os-mgmt-vm.ovf" vi://Administrator%40vSphere.local:WaffleMan5000%21@10.30.0.130/MTS-MME-LAB/host/side-1/10.30.0.79
MANIFEST
+ <ManifestValidate valid="true"/>
PROGRESS
ERROR
+ <Errors>
+ <Error>
+ <Type>ovftool.abort</Type>
+ <LocalizedMsg>
+ Execution aborted
+ </LocalizedMsg>
+ </Error>
+ </Errors>
/usr/bin/ovftool: line 23: 2288 Segmentation fault (core dumped) "$OVFTOOL_BIN" "$@"
mtc@orchestrator-vm-pristine:~$ ovftool -v
VMware ovftool 3.5.0 (build-1274719)
After trying a couple different times I started seeing a different error, <Type> Lost connection </Type>. This all works fine in other installations so there is something unique to this install. Is there a document that describes the packet flow and setup for ovftools pushing the ovf/ova's out to the host? Were are logs stored to be able to track down the issue?
Thanks
Eric Wolf
