Re: [vagrant-up] Vmware ESX provider?

[Mitchell Hashimoto]

Hello,

An ESXi provider (specifically vSphere) is under development. It actually works, but requires more testing and features. 

Expect a release in the nearish future.

Best,

Mitchell

On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 1:38 PM, <asan...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi guys, just curious if a Vmware ESXi provider is in the works, meaning we will be able to connect to vsphere and spin up guests.

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[Mohit Sethi]

Hi Mitchell,

I too recently finished development for a vSphere provider, testing it now.

Do we maintain a wiki page with list of providers/plugins released or to-be-release (under development)?

Regards,

Mohit

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[Don Ky]

Thanks, excited to try it.  I just found out how useful the fusion plugin can be.  Excellent work.

[Ringo De Smet]

Mitchell,

On 7 May 2013 05:19, Mitchell Hashimoto <mitchell....@gmail.com> wrote:

An ESXi provider (specifically vSphere) is under development. It actually works, but requires more testing and features. 

Expect a release in the nearish future.

Really looking forward to this release. I could very much use it today already, so if you need beta testers, don't hesitate to contact me.

Ringo

[Ashish Hanwadikar]

I will be willing to beta test the ESXi provider also.

[Torben Knerr]

There's vagrant-vsphere. Haven't tried it for myself yet, but this should be what you are looking for?

https://github.com/nsidc/vagrant-vsphere/

[Shaun Mouton]

Mitchell,

Is the vSphere provider likely to be licensed similarly to the Fusion/Workstation providers? Would it be possible to purchase seats which allow the use of the Vagrant VMWare providers without discriminating between them (i.e., one seat allows the user to work with Fusion and/or Workstation, AND vSphere)?

Regards,

Shaun

[Mitchell Hashimoto]

Shaun,

There is an open source one in development:
https://github.com/nsidc/vagrant-vsphere

Best,
Mitchell

[Jesse Mauntel]

Mitchell,

Has there been any progress on the vSphere provider?  We're currently looking for a way to speed up our CI testing and I think this would help tremendously.  Some of our current test suites in test-kitchen have as many as 24 boxes to build and converge with Chef, and it takes FOREVER to finish.  If we could do this in parallel in vSphere it would be WAY faster.

If there is anything I can do to help with the product development, let me know.  I'd be happy to be a Beta tester! 

[Andy Grauch]

There has been some progress made with the provider. It now supports provisioning and the halt action. It still will only create a VM by cloning an existing template.

[Kris Luminar]

Has anyone tried vagrant-vsphere? I'm wondering if it would be suitable to use it to spin up and destroy VM's in production?

Also, if anyone has any alternate ideas about how to go about spinning up/down VM's in production with Ansible, I'd love to hear about it.

[Simon McCartney]

fog.io supports vSphere, depends on how much automation you want to do & how much scripting you are prepared to do :)

with AWS & OpenStack VMs, we use cloud-init to seed in initial config (like packages to install & chef/puppet/salt config) and let CM finish building the VM.  Does vSphere have a similar notion to allow you to drop in enough for ansible to take over? Or will you be automating ssh'ing in do getting ansible to take over?

Simon McCartney

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[Ronan Carty]

I have been attempting to use vagrant-vsphere for the last few days. Its at versions 0.4.0 so documentation is sparse. In my test environment it will  clone a vm template that is on my esx server but I have failed to get the vagrant app to change the ip to a static ip. 

Its more than likely something i am missing, but I dont really have any more time on my current trying to figure it out. If you have the time, in theory it seems a good option.

[Leonard Kong]

Hi Ronan,

I've been trying to get my vsphere instance to spin up a VM via a clone but I think I may have my Vagrantfile configured incorrectly. If you wouldn't mind, would you be able to show me how you have your Vagrantfile set up to clone a VM? I have vsphere up and running w/ a couple VMs already spun up....

Thanks!

Leonard

[Dieter Meyer]

Hi

 

I installed vagrant-vsphere plugin (0.7.0) on Ubuntu 12.04, but it is not working.

The problem i found is "vsphere" <--> "vSphere", both words are used in plugin and configuration.

 

Has anyone successfully installed and tested the plugin on linux?

Any information about this will be helpful for me.

[Leonard Kong]

Can you output the error logs using --debug? Might be able to find a clue in there

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[Dieter Meyer]

Hi

 

debug output:

 

 INFO machine: Calling action: up on provider vSphere (new)
 INFO runner: Running action: #<Vagrant::Action::Builder:0x000000023b5388>
 INFO warden: Calling IN action: #<Vagrant::Action::Builtin::ConfigValidate:0x007f9604ed0520>
 INFO warden: Calling IN action: #<VagrantPlugins::VSphere::Action::ConnectVSphere:0x007f9604ed04f8>
/opt/vagrant/embedded/lib/ruby/2.0.0/net/http.rb:918:in `connect'
/opt/vagrant/embedded/lib/ruby/2.0.0/net/http.rb:918:in `block in connect'
/opt/vagrant/embedded/lib/ruby/2.0.0/timeout.rb:66:in `timeout'
/opt/vagrant/embedded/lib/ruby/2.0.0/net/http.rb:918:in `connect'
/opt/vagrant/embedded/lib/ruby/2.0.0/net/http.rb:862:in `do_start'
/opt/vagrant/embedded/lib/ruby/2.0.0/net/http.rb:857:in `start'
/home/.vagrant.d/gems/gems/rbvmomi-1.8.1/lib/rbvmomi/trivial_soap.rb:56:in `restart_http'
/home/.vagrant.d/gems/gems/rbvmomi-1.8.1/lib/rbvmomi/trivial_soap.rb:20:in `initialize'
/home/.vagrant.d/gems/gems/rbvmomi-1.8.1/lib/rbvmomi/connection.rb:31:in `initialize'
/home/.vagrant.d/gems/gems/rbvmomi-1.8.1/lib/rbvmomi/vim.rb:36:in `new'
/home/.vagrant.d/gems/gems/rbvmomi-1.8.1/lib/rbvmomi/vim.rb:36:in `connect'
/home/.vagrant.d/gems/gems/vagrant-vsphere-0.7.0/lib/vSphere/action/connect_vsphere.rb:15:in `call'
/opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.4.2/lib/vagrant/action/warden.rb:34:in `call'
/opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.4.2/lib/vagrant/action/builtin/config_validate.rb:25:in `call'
/opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.4.2/lib/vagrant/action/warden.rb:34:in `call'
/opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.4.2/lib/vagrant/action/builder.rb:116:in `call'
/opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.4.2/lib/vagrant/action/runner.rb:69:in `block in run'
/opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.4.2/lib/vagrant/util/busy.rb:19:in `busy'
/opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.4.2/lib/vagrant/action/runner.rb:69:in `run'
/opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.4.2/lib/vagrant/machine.rb:147:in `action'
/opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.4.2/lib/vagrant/batch_action.rb:63:in `block (2 levels) in run'
/home/.vagrant.d/gems/gems/logging-1.8.1/lib/logging/diagnostic_context.rb:323:in `call'
/home/.vagrant.d/gems/gems/logging-1.8.1/lib/logging/diagnostic_context.rb:323:in `block in create_with_logging_context'
ERROR warden: Error occurred: No error message
INFO warden: Beginning recovery process...

[waldek]

Hi Dieter,

You need vSphere client installed on your system. As I know, it is not available on linux. How do you enabled vSphere API on your ubuntu? Please be sure, that your client version is appropriate to your VMWare version (please do client connectivity test).

The next question, you should reconsider is to change rbvmomi version. After successful connection to VMWare I realized (with 5.0 version), that there are some issues with parameter parsing&types in 1.8.1 version. I returned to 1.6.0 and works for me (on Windows).

Regards

W.

[Leonard Kong]

I don't see any of the debugs on the output. What command line are you running to output?

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[frantishrek]

I've got similar problem. You should try with vsphere.insecure = true

Best regards,
fran'

2014/1/10 Dieter Meyer <dieter...@siemens.com>:

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