Posts made by Timelord83

[quote=“need2, post: 37606, member: 21891”][CODE]svn co https://svn.code.sf.net/p/freeghost/code/trunk <where ever you want to save the downloaded code>[/CODE][/quote]

Thank you… i want a do over… on this week… let it be friday night again.

I can’t seem to find it and It feels like monday whats the terminal command to pull fog with…

[quote=“Mentaloid, post: 37412, member: 4362”]Last I used VMware to shrink a disk, it was done via a VMware supplied tool called “vmware tools” for a windows guest. This is a guest OS application that is installed from VMware from a CD ISO image (ESXi, accessed by selecting “install vmware tools” in the host manager).

As this is a program/tool supplied by VMware, and is Host dependant, as well using private (and hidden) vmware API’s, I am quite certain that there is no linux derivative of said tool. If you have access to the VMDK file from a linux system you can manage to squeeze vcli [url]https://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vcli/[/url] onto it, I would suggest thinking about creating a new (smaller) VMDK file, and then cloning to the new VMDK. Of course this requires a fair amount of room itself (as does the hot shrink that VMware supplies for windows guests)

TL;DR; Windows guests, you need to use vmware tools. Linux guests, you need to do a lot of research, and get some 3rd party tools and install VMware tools (which likely won’t work on macos) to possibly even try with enough spare disk space to create a second copy of the VMDK.[/quote]

they do have a copy of the VMWare tools that fusion keeps updated. And it does allow folder sharing and a host of other functions but the resize doesn’t seem to work for me. I dunno maybe i’m wasting my time but I think i’ll figure out this dilemma long before I et a bigger SSD

[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 37289, member: 7271”]What, exactly do you need to happen?

You want to shrink a vmdk after it’s been used?[/quote]

Yes that is exactly it.

I am not trying to sound ungreatful and the help here as always been better than other places. When I did bother to ask on the ubuntu forums I was told more than once that I should upgrade to 14.XX and I’d stand a better chance. When I asked on the VMWare forums it was Fusion is the VMWare LITE kinda thing if you want that functionality you should get workstation, last I was aware Workstation is a Windows thing. I am currently in the groveling stages with the boss for a 512 SSD but I don’t think its going my way.

[quote=“VincentJ, post: 37245, member: 8935”]then you have an issue you need to take up with Ubuntu or VMware. I don’t know how to help you with that. I’ve not had to run my FOG server on storage that was overprovisioned, and I’m very careful not to overprovision as it can cause problems.

Have you tried Ubuntu or VMware support sites?[/quote]

So what your saying is don’t ask here, we won’t help? I mean thats what it sounds like, I asked here because and correct me if i’m wrong didn’t .32 come in a VM for testing. I made the leap that maybe someone here would be able to help as I have not had luck asking on other sites. I get, use the newest version or Fusion really isn’t good for that kind of stuff. No real answers and no real want to help.

[quote=“VincentJ, post: 37035, member: 8935”]VMware tools maybe. or use thin provisioning

looks more like a VMware/Linux issue than a FOG specific issue.[/quote]

Its is strictly a VMWare/Linux issue fog has no bearing on it other than its whats using up the space causing the volume to expand. but i need to be able to shrink it back down because VMWare/OSX is not smart enough to realize that i’m not using extra space so my VM virtual disk keeps growing on the mac end but i’m not using anymore or less inside the VM itself

Background:

I have a 13" MacBook Pro with 8 GB of Ram and 256 GB SSD for work. I currently have a Ubuntu 13.10/Fog Server install on it that is taking up 150 GB on my. While the VM is really only using 86GB i am not able to get VMWare Fusion to resize the Virtual Machine because its linux. I need to get this resizable I build base VM’s for our site for currently 7 sites and thats just the PC side. I need help or even some direction how how I can get it to be resizable. AkA the cleanup button that VMWare fusion gives me for a windows VM that will strip out all the extra files (page/hibernation) and then size the vm down so its not taking any more space up on my SSD than it really needs.

Thanks,
James

Sysprep is pulling the driver package on generalize. So I am still screwed.

[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 36612, member: 7271”]How slow are they imaging?

FOG Would certainly fit the bill, even if you’re running on a 100 Mbps LAN. I’ve not done any work with DISM or wim files.

How slow is SLOWWWWWWWWWWW?

Are you trying to image multicast or unicast that’s causing the slowness?[/quote]

I do not have a switch that supports multicast… so its unicast and after these thing stablize around 700mb a minute or so…

Any help at all even another way to accomplish what i’m doing. I’d like to avoid fog as these are just 100mbps cards and they fog SLOWWWWWWWW

Alright so I have several Gateway net books LT3124u’s and we are getting rid of them and they want them wiped with a clean install of Windows 7 Home Premium(that’s what they came with) I decided i would forgo the fogging and just add the device drivers to the install.wim and then just make 4 or 5 USB keys and just get them to the OOBE and shut them down and whoever gets the unit can finish it but all the drivers would be installed so they would just have a functioning machine… then reality set in…

I had to to remove the Raid driver from the chipset drivers otherwise during the install it would force me to load a driver for a raid array that didn’t exist. Then the video driver (Ati chipset) would not install missing files. So after some googling i found a Solution that was overly simple just go into the driver folder select all the files and tell 7zip to unzip them in place and bam the driver import worked. But as soon as it reboots that last time before the OOBE it appears to strip out all the drivers that where present during the Install. the DISM reports all the drivers successfully added and during the install you can see that the screen res is better than just using a stock USB key but I can’t figure out why its stripping out the driver at the last second.

Any help would be appricated

[quote=“Junkhacker, post: 32701, member: 21583”]a newer version of fog
you mentioned you “have an older version of fog” in a prior post and you were running 0.33b
fog 1.1.2 is out now[/quote] Ahh no, since I work in VM’s i built a new fog server on sunday. Not sure to tell what revision i am running though… how can i check? either way its up to date as of sunday around 10pm EST

[quote=“Junkhacker, post: 32684, member: 21583”]is there a reason you’re not upgrading to a newer version? because that bug sounds familiar, and if it’s what i think it is, was fixed a long time ago. at this point you’ll have to edit the database to fix the problem though.[/quote]

I guess I am a little lost… I am running a brand new install of fog on a 13.10 ubuntu install… I was under the impression that 13.10 was still the way to go…

Hello, So after my earlier ugh… which i managed to google the issue to before the reply but i do appreciate it. I have a new issue… I run ubuntu 13.10 in a VM on Fusion 6.0.X and i have an issue where at random while doing a full registration it will say its unable to register blah blah… no error given just says it can’t and flys through spitting out all the system data and restarts. Normally i just run it again. but today a system did it… and hung up on end where is says sending to host… and just scrolled black for over 15 minutes before i force restarted it. well it turns out it started to make a host on the fog server but now I cannot remove the host it gives me this error when i try to delete it.

[FONT=Ubuntu][COLOR=#555555]FOG DEBUG: Host: Database Load Failed: ID: 0, Error: Operation field not set: ID[/COLOR][/FONT]

[FONT=Ubuntu][COLOR=#555555]any ideas? i need the host removed so i can re-add it… i tried to manually edit at least the mac in but its not working at all. and its just the one host thats having issues i can edit any of the other 150+ hosts without issue.[/COLOR][/FONT]

Hi Tom, I hate to put this here but as the old threads are locked… I have an older version of fog that did seem to be working fine. It is a ubuntu server in a VM. I build a new Windows7 x64 ent image with a 60gb drive, also a vm. Made all my changes pulled the image into fog and then deployed it… for some reason its not expanding properly after the image. if you go into my computer it shows a 23.86 GB hard drive that is almost full but if i don into computer management / disk management it shows that is a 295 GB partition… i am completely lost and i’ve already imaged 50 machines and am a day behind, how can i fix this issue without re-imaging?

Ubuntu 13.10
Fog .33b (Not sure how to pull revision number on an installed fog system)

[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 26129, member: 7271”]The base kernel for 0.33 is now a 64 bit kernel. The files are:

/var/www/<FOGDIR>/service/ipxe/bzImage (64 bit)
/var/www/<FOGDIR>/service/ipxe/bzImage32 (32 bit <- FOG 0.32 and below as well)[/quote]

Alright so I am still having issues. I found the folder but I don’t want to replace the stock bzImage. So I tossed my extra’s that we use in the folder… in the host config in fog i told it to use the new kernel but just giving it the kernel name core2573 in the field. I also tried with the absolute plath /var/www/Fog/service/ipxe/core2573, the file does exist in this location and it still does not seem to load that kernel… am I missing a step? or giving it the wrong path.

Fog: 33b
Ubuntu 13.10

I have looked till my eyes are crossed and i am sure someone is going to point it out right off and i’ll want to facepalm… where does .33b store the kernels so i can add a couple we use on legacy machines? Sorry in advance if more than 1 braincell is required for my answer.

and if it is tftpboot folder which one is the base kernel? and did the format for the kernel change? will i still be able to use the kernels from .32 on .33b?

after a server restart sql crashes about 5 minutes in with this error,

[CODE]innodb unable to lock ./ibdata1 error 11 [/CODE]

and after a server restart all seems fine, I haven’t attempted to pull an image but it is downloading them fine.

Has anyone seen this error before?

This is going to sound completely noobish… How can I check which revision of your fog i am on? I am having issues with task creation from the tasks area but can create tasks from the Hosts area… But if i update to the new new version of Fog I cannot create tasks at all from anywhere.

[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 21139, member: 7271”]r1059 released to test this new functionality out. Please test and play. You can change the setting under:

FOG Configuration->FOG Settings->FOG PXE Settings->FOG_PIGZ_COMP

Hopefully you’ll enjoy it. The values are between 0 and 9. 0 being the fastest/worst compression rating and 9 being the slowest/best compression rating.[/quote]

damn your quick. Ask you shall receive I will have to wait to get home to my Desktop of DOOM… i can’t even get my mac to mount the images folder when i try to use the private internal network in Fusion