Bootstrapping a vm using knife-vsphere

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I have been trying to create and bootstrap a VM from my chefworkstation using
knife-vsphere plugin.

I am able to clone a VM from a template in vsphere environment using the
following command.
knife vsphere vm clone vmname --template templatename --cspec customspecname

But I need to know if the above command creates and bootstraps(install
chef-client on it) a chef node which I believe is not the case. If not how to
bootstrap the vm node using the same command from my worstation. I see a lot of
option to be used in the command in
"https://github.com/ezrapagel/knife-vsphere/blob/master/README.rdoc" but I
need the most basic ones required to bootstrap and register my vm with the chef
server.
any help would be great.

Thanks in advance,
Vignesh

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Hi Vignesh,

I haven't tried this yet but knife vsphere vm clone --help shows a
'--bootstrap' option which indicates whether to bootstrap a VM or not.
Hope this helps.

Regards,
Aditya

On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 11:25 AM, vickyramuk4u@gmail.com wrote:

I have been trying to create and bootstrap a VM from my chefworkstation
using
knife-vsphere plugin.

I am able to clone a VM from a template in vsphere environment using the
following command.
knife vsphere vm clone vmname --template templatename --cspec
customspecname

But I need to know if the above command creates and bootstraps(install
chef-client on it) a chef node which I believe is not the case. If not how
to
bootstrap the vm node using the same command from my worstation. I see a
lot of
option to be used in the command in
"https://github.com/ezrapagel/knife-vsphere/blob/master/README.rdoc" but
I
need the most basic ones required to bootstrap and register my vm with the
chef
server.
any help would be great.

Thanks in advance,
Vignesh

3

Hi Aditya,

thanks for the suggestion.It did not help me but when I give this --distro
option as well it bootstraps my node and registers it with the chef server.

Regards,
Vignesh.

On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Aditya Karanjkar <
aditya.karanjkar@relevancelab.com> wrote:

Hi Vignesh,

I haven't tried this yet but knife vsphere vm clone --help shows a
'--bootstrap' option which indicates whether to bootstrap a VM or not.
Hope this helps.

Regards,
Aditya

On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 11:25 AM, vickyramuk4u@gmail.com wrote:

I have been trying to create and bootstrap a VM from my chefworkstation
using
knife-vsphere plugin.

I am able to clone a VM from a template in vsphere environment using the
following command.
knife vsphere vm clone vmname --template templatename --cspec
customspecname

But I need to know if the above command creates and bootstraps(install
chef-client on it) a chef node which I believe is not the case. If not
how to
bootstrap the vm node using the same command from my worstation. I see a
lot of
option to be used in the command in
"https://github.com/ezrapagel/knife-vsphere/blob/master/README.rdoc"
but I
need the most basic ones required to bootstrap and register my vm with
the chef
server.
any help would be great.

Thanks in advance,
Vignesh