Fog 1.1.0 will not deploy to Virtual Machine
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I am trying to test an image by deploying it to a VMWare ESXi 5.1 virtual machine, however the download of the image never starts.
This is what I see:
- Send method… NFS
- Attempting to send inventory… Done
- Checking In… Done
- Mounting File System… Done
- Checking Mounted File System… Done
*Starting Image Push
*Using Image: [image name]*Looking for Hard Disks… Done
*Using Hard Disk: /dev/sda
*Checking Hard Disks… Done
*Changing Hostname… Done*Updating Computer Database Status
*Database Updated!
*Task is completed, computer will now restart.
This all happens in about a second then the system reboots.
I have run a client compatibility test which passes for both Network and Disk.I am currently using svn r1763
The VM is setup with an IDE Hard Disk and a E1000 NIC.
Any ideas on what could be going on here or how to get it working for VMWare Virtual Machines?
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Check your partitions, is this a disk that has previously been used? You need to at least have a partition on the disk to install too. FOG will add extra partitions that it need,s but without a formatted and partitioned disk for it to “store” to, it won’t find a disk and it won’t complete it’s task.
I use virtual machines frequently, this is a step I forget from time to time too, I have also provided a walkthrough on using the Debug deploy for creating partitions with FOG.
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[quote=“Jaymes Driver, post: 28611, member: 3582”]Check your partitions, is this a disk that has previously been used? You need to at least have a partition on the disk to install too. FOG will add extra partitions that it need,s but without a formatted and partitioned disk for it to “store” to, it won’t find a disk and it won’t complete it’s task.
I use virtual machines frequently, this is a step I forget from time to time too, I have also provided a walkthrough on using the Debug deploy for creating partitions with FOG.[/quote]
Jaymes, that was it! I deployed using the advanced ‘Download - Debug’ task and then ran fdisk to create an empty FAT32 partition. I then continued the download process and the image download started normally.
I’ve been using v.32 for several years and never had to create a partition prior to pushing out an image. Now I know. Thanks for the help.
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[quote=“Todd Humphries, post: 28684, member: 24418”]Jaymes, that was it! I deployed using the advanced ‘Download - Debug’ task and then ran fdisk to create an empty FAT32 partition. I then continued the download process and the image download started normally.
I’ve been using v.32 for several years and never had to create a partition prior to pushing out an image. Now I know. Thanks for the help.[/quote]
Hahaha, I was using a windows 95 disc letting it format a partition then yanking the disc… I knew there had to be a better way, in man all you are loading with the pxe is basically a slimmed down linux cli. Glad I could help someone!
