dynamic vs static ip

[Tyler Hardesty <th...@gmail.com>]

I'm still trying to debug why my image capturing keeps failing and I noticed
that might be a problem but I'm not sure... I have my virtual machines all
set up with static IP address because I am not able to use DHCP in my
current situation. Well I noticed that once I try to capture an image and it
fails, if I load that VM up through vmware, it's public network interface
has been switched to automatically obtain IP instead of the static one that
I gave it, could this be why the image fails to be captured and/or how do I
change it to stop reseting it back to obtain IP automatically?

-Tyler

Re: dynamic vs static ip

[Andy Kurth <an...@ncsu.edu>]

The capture process enables DHCP on both the public and private 
interface just before the VM is powered off at the end of the capture 
process.  This is necessary or else an image with a static address could 
be loaded multiple times causing IP address conflicts.

Do you have DHCP configured for the private interface?  This is a 
requirement for VCL.

I'm guessing DHCP isn't the reason your capture is failing.  Please send 
the vcld.log file output and I'll be able to provide additional help.

Regards,
Andy Kurth


On 4/1/2011 7:19 PM, Tyler Hardesty wrote:
> I'm still trying to debug why my image capturing keeps failing and I
> noticed that might be a problem but I'm not sure... I have my virtual
> machines all set up with static IP address because I am not able to use
> DHCP in my current situation. Well I noticed that once I try to capture
> an image and it fails, if I load that VM up through vmware, it's public
> network interface has been switched to automatically obtain IP instead
> of the static one that I gave it, could this be why the image fails to
> be captured and/or how do I change it to stop reseting it back to obtain
> IP automatically?
>
> -Tyler