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[Digant C Kasundra <>]

----- "Michael A. Grady" 
<>
 wrote:

> Heather, I'm working with our systems group that manages our VMware  
> environment to get the CoManage virtual appliance installed so I can 
> 
> start to play with it. But that group is reporting that they think  
> that the virtual disk format is incompatible with the latest version 
> 
> of VMware ESX. Have you heard any other reports of problems?
> 

Can you tell me what version of ESX they are using?  I was able to reimport 
the vmware appliance without issue so I'm wondering if we're on a different 
version they what you have.  We are on ESX 3i (3.5.0).

> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> > From: "John Shea via RT" 
> > <>
> > Date: May 28, 2009 11:06:38 AM CDT
> > To: 
> > 
> > Cc: 
> > ,
> >  
> > 
> > Subject: [cites.uiuc.edu #9215] Re: kernel patch for auth-dev1
> > Reply-To: 
> > 
> >
> > I just wanted to update you on this issue.  I downloaded and
> installed
> > COmanage version 0.1.3.  Unfortunately, the virtual disk format  
> > appears
> > to be incompatible with the latest version of VMware ESX, and the
> > virtual machine fails to start.
> >
> > Although I could spend some time converting the disk to different
> > formats, we're likely not the only site experiencing this problem,
> and
> > we should probably discuss this issue with the publishers of the  
> > virtual
> > machine.  Would you be able to submit a bug report about this
> problem?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > John
> >
> > On Tue May 12 20:28:52 2009, 
> > 
> >  wrote:
> >> Sounds great -- thanks!
> >>
> >>
> >> On May 12, 2009, at 5:30 PM, johnshea wrote:
> >>
> >> Michael A. Grady wrote:
> >>> I want to "advertise"  the name 'comanage.cites.illinois.edu' --
> so
> >>> that would be the CNAME, but it could also be the hostname. With
> >>> VMs, are you generally using a different underlying hostname? If
> >>> so, make it something like 'collab1.cites.illinois.edu' (or
> >>> uiuc.edu, depending where you're at with using illinois.edu
> versus
> >>> uiuc.edu).
> >>
> >> The network configuration of VMs is almost identical to physical
> >> machines, and it's usually best to use separate hostname and
> CNAMEs.
> >> I'll register:
> >>
> >> hostname: collab1.cites.illinois.edu
> >> CNAME: comanage.cites.illinois.edu
> >>>
> 
> 
> --
> Michael A. Grady
> Executive Program Officer for Cyberinfrastructure
> Office of the CIO, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
> 2222 DCL, MC 256, 1304 W. Springfield Ave., Urbana, IL 61801
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-- 
Digant C Kasundra 
<>
Technical Lead, ITS Unix Systems and Applications, Stanford University