[chef] Re: RE: Re: RE: Knife-vSphere plugin (windows)

[Jesse Campbell < >]

looks like a bug in BaseVsphereCommand.rb
I have changed the relevant section to this:

        option :vsphere_host,
          :long => "--vshost HOST",
          :description => "The vsphere host"

You can update your own for now until a new rubygem is created.

What other changes did you need to make to run on windows?

-Jesse

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Van Fossan,Randy 
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 wrote:
> Hi Jesse,
>
> The following does not work, I get the error "can't convert true into
> String"
>
> # knife vsphere -u myaccount -p mypassword --vshost myhost.fqdn -d
> "mydatacenter" --vsinsecure vm list
> # ERROR: TypeError: can't convert true into String
>
> If I change my knife.rb to include  "knife[:vsphere_host] =
> "myhost.fqdn" "  and then run the following, it works.
> # knife vsphere -u myaccount -p mypassword -d "mydatacenter"
> --vsinsecure vm list
>
> I need to be able to specify the --vshost as we have many Virtual Center
> Servers.
>
> I looked at the code here:
> https://github.com/ezrapagel/knife-vsphere/blob/master/lib/chef/knife/Ba
> seVsphereCommand.rb
>
> Randy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jesse Campbell 
> [mailto:
 
> Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2012 10:55 AM
> To: 
> 
 
> Subject: [chef] Re: RE: Knife-vSphere plugin (windows)
>
> What have you had work vs. not work?
> I'm pretty sure I tested both of those options back when I coded them,
> but it was many months ago, and I currently only test on mac os...
> but documentation around the "option" specifications is sparse or
> nonexistent, so some pieces may have been missed.
>
> however, what variable is missing in what you posted? the first option
> sets config[:vsphere_dc], the second option sets config[:vsphere_host]
>
> -jesse
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Van Fossan,Randy 
> <
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> wrote:
>> Well, I spoke too soon.   I thought I tried the --vshost correctly
> but, I still had the entry in my knife.rb file for the vsphere_host.
> Looking at the source for knife-vsphere; specifically, the
> BaseVsphereCommand.rb file, it shows the --vshost but it doesn't look
> like it is coded correctly.?.?.?
>>
>> If you look at the vsphere_dc section versus the vsphere_host section,
> it looks like a variable is missing.?.?.?
>>
>>   option :vsphere_dc,
>>        :short => "-d DATACENTER",
>>        :long => "--vsdc DATACENTER",
>>        :description => "The Datacenter for vsphere"
>>
>>   option :vsphere_host,
>>       :long => "--vshost",
>>       :description => "The vsphere host"
>>
>> Anyone concur?
>>
>> Randy
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Van Fossan,Randy
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2012 2:12 PM
>> To: 
>> '
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>> Subject: RE: Knife-vSphere plugin (windows)
>>
>> After looking at the source, I see you can specify the Datacenter and
> vSphere host.  I tried it "-d" and --vshost options and they do work.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Van Fossan,Randy
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2012 1:59 PM
>> To: 
>> '
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>> Subject: Knife-vSphere plugin (windows)
>>
>> All,
>>
>> I am having some success with the knife-vsphere (0.2.3) plugin in
> windows.  We have the Chef 0.10.12 Omnibus package for Windows installed
> and we then installed the knife-vsphere plugin.     The plugin seems to
> work ok  in windows after I did a little gem cleanup..   My question is,
> is there a way to pass the vsphere_dc and vspere_host via the command
> line?   I have tried setting windows environment variables as follows
> and it isn't working.
>>
>> vsphere_host="mvcenter.fqdn"
>> vshrere_dc="mydatacenter"
>>
>> We have many Data Centers on multiple Virtual Center servers.
>>
>> We need to run knife-vsphere on a windows chef management console due
> to using VMware Orchestrator and PowerCLI as a wrapper around the "knife
> vsphere" command.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks
>>   Randy
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