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• Create computer groups:
  • all vm host computers
  • all vm guest computers 
• Map vm computer groups to management node group
• Add VM host computer:
  • Manage Computers -> Edit Computer Information -> Add 
    • Hosthame: localvmhost
    • IP Address: 127.0.0.2
    • State: maintenance
    • Owner: admin
    • Platform: i386
    • Schedule: VCL 24x7 
    • RAM: 1024
    • No Processors: 1
    • Processor Speed: 2000
    • Network Speed: 100 
    • Type: blade
    • Provisioning engine: xCAT 1.x
    • Computer Groups: all vm host computers
• Add VM guest computer:
  • Manage Computers -> Edit Computer Information -> Add  
    • Hosthame: vmguest-1
    • IP Address: current public ip address used by Windows XP VM
    • State: available 
    • Owner: admin
    • Platform: i386
    • Schedule: VCL 24x7 
    • RAM: 1024
    • No Processors: 1
    • Processor Speed: 2000
    • Network Speed: 100 
    • Type: virtualmachine
    • Provisioning engine: VMWare Server Provisioning
    • Computer Groups: all vm guest computers
• Configure the VM guest's MAC address in the computer table:
  • eth0: 00:50:56:06:FF:00
  • eth1: 00:50:56:06:FF:01
• Change state of localvmhost to vmhostinuse
• Assign vm guests to localvmhost
• Create node in priviledge tree
  • Name: VM image access
  • Add resource groups:
    • all vm guest computers
    • all vm guest images

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• mkdir -p /install/vmware_images/vmwarewinxp-base7-v0
• chmod -R 644 /install/vmware_images/
• cp /var/lib/vmware/Virtual\ Machines/Windows\ XP\ Base/Win*vmdk /install/vmware_images/vmwarewinxp-base7-v0/
• Rename the .vmdk files:

  Code Block
  mv Windows\ XP\ Base.vmdk vmwarewinxp-base7-v0.vmdk for i in {1..7}; do mv Windows\ XP\ Base-s00$i.vmdk vmwarewinxp-base7-v0-s00$i.vmdk; done; sed -i -r -e "s/Windows XP Base/vmwarewinxp-base7-v0/" vmwarewinxp-base7-v0.vmdk