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recommendations for the VMware appliance configuration #1358
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Thanks for the pointers.
That would break compatibility with older versions. Many companies still run ESXi 5.5. You are free to raise the version once mounted though.
Sure, will do that for next base image.
I just use VMware suggested values. Have been working for years, so I didn't see any reason to change.
See above. I know it's crappy, but for compability issues and default suggestions.
Will change for next base image
Will look into that for the next base image. |
EFI will become available only with newer hardware versions, I guess. Talking ESXi 6.7, e1000 isn't supported either with Ubuntu 20.04, you would have to use e1000e, which is even crappier so vmxnet3 is the way to go (and recommended). |
Hey, what about this: You make an OVA and send it to me with what you think is decent. INSTALLATION
Do this with:
All disks should be thin. Thanks 👍 |
Will do as soon as I've got my 1 TB machine up and running which I have bought yesterday ;) |
Thanks! Please set the version as low as decently possible though. I will have lots of emails otherwise. |
And last but not least, don't do anything with the second disk (for data). Just leave it there unformated and unmounted in the guest system. |
Putting this here: #910 |
sudo lvextend -l 100%FREE --resizefs /dev/ubuntu-vg/ubuntu-lv says:
df -h shows only a 20G / mount but fdisk -l /dev/sda says that the main partition is 39G big. Sorry, never liked LVM (totally useless in a VM environment, imho) and never got used to configure/use LVM so no idea where to go from here..? |
Yeah, that's a bug in the Ubuntu installer... You need this image (don't update it): https://cloud.hanssonit.se/s/FAnfk3273NExreM |
thanks for providing the ISO, it wasn't available anymore from official sources. will try it with that one later. |
same issue here. i want to go from 40g to 1024g, New size given not larger than existing size. any ideas or documention how to do it the right way? |
Second HDD. I wanted to do the same and ended up buying the 1 TB VM to support the hard work that has been done to provide the VM. The 40 GB version should be good enough for you to evaluate whether the 1 TB VM is worth about EUR 40,- to you or not. |
Hey @mamama1, any news here? |
@mamama1 What happened? Busy times? Anyway, got this from a user:
How do we solve that? |
sorry, yes. Will do the OVAs as soon as I got some spare time. The whole Nextcloud/Bitwarden project took longer than expected so I kind of used up the ideal time slot for doing this.
I highly doubt that importing OVAs is broken in general for vSphere 6.5. The only thing I can imagine what could have hit that user is that one has to have proper, trusted (usually local Enterprise PKI) SSL certificates installed, otherwise the import task fails. He could still use ovatool.exe though, which allows for overriding invalid SSL certificates. Also using Firefox is a solution for this issue because you can add permanent SSL exceptions there. Even running Chrome using the --ignore-certificate-errors parameter would fix this particular issue. Anyway, if he wants anyone to troubleshoot this further, he'd at least have to provide some error messages or log files or anything like that. If he wants us to believe that this is a known bug in vSphere 6.5, I'd ask him to provide a VMware KB number. |
Thanks! Regarding this issue, Ubuntu 20.04.1 is now released, and it would be great if we could have the BASE image/VM updated as soon as possible. I understand that you are busy, no worries. Just sayin. :) |
@mamama1 He linked this KB: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2151085. |
Well, ok, I wasn't aware of that bug, probably because I didn't really touch 6.5 much but went straight from 6.0 to 6.7. So I'd say, nothing to see here, keep on rolling... |
Can we make the new root volume 45GB big? Then LVM snapshots would be possible without sacrifice, no? |
@mamama1 Would be great if you could find the time to start working on the new base images. Just a friendly reminder. :) |
I'm working on this now FYI. |
It can now be found here: https://cloud.hanssonit.se/s/zjsqkrSpzqJGE9N?path=%2FTESTING It will be released today as 20.0.4 in all versions. cc @mamama1 |
Awesome! Sorry, didn't have absolutely any time for anything lately... |
Time will tell if I get a lot of "the OVA is not working with XYZ hypervisor." :) I opted for Paravirtualization for the disks, I agree with you there. Let's hope for the best! |
So all of the above should now be fixed. Made a new release today with Ubuntu 22.04 - all VMs are now updated. What I could see I couldn't choose certain stuff in VMware Workstation (I know they exist in ESXi), but if you want to change them, just go ahead and do it. Hope you'll enjoy the new VMs! :) |
Hi
I'm a VMware admin for many years now and I have to say that the VM configuration of the VMware appliance is a bit off ideal and that's why I wanted to share some suggestions:
For many if not most home users the current config won't matter but corporate admins would love to see those changes, I'm sure ;-)
Otherwise, thanks for a great appliance and great scripts. Very good job!
All the best
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