Hi -
I've been trying to get VDDK hotadd working from an Ubuntu machine (currently trying from 10.10, but so far, no luck on any Ubuntu-based machine).
Using the same code and environment, hotadd works fine if I use an RHEL 5.5 machine.
The Open call gets to the point where I can even see the hot-added disk show up in the vSphere GUI on the Ubuntu virtual machine I'm trying to add it to, but eventually fails after VDDK prints "Get new device attempt X failed" (X goes from 0 to 9 with about 10 seconds between each attempt).
If I compare the VDDK output to that of the working RHEL setup, they are almost identical until the point where I start seeing the "Get new device attempt X failed" messages. The end error code I get is the "You do not have access rights to this file". I'm using VDDK 1.2.1.
Anyone ever tried something like this?
Attached the full VDDK output with logging turned up to the highest level that I know of at least. (The output includes everything from the InitEx, ConnectEx, and Open calls.)
Some things I've tried:
1 - both installing or not installing vmware-tools on the VM I'm attempting to hotadd from
2 - using the libexpat that comes with the install, using the libexpat that comes with vmware tools, compiling from source and using libexpat v1.95.8
Thanks in advance for any ideas or help.
- Jenni