I wanted to add some room booking assistants to our conference rooms. My last place used evoko units – which worked quite well – but they required 1) PoE ethernet drops and 2) $1100 each.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So after reading about Joan I decided to get one to try out. They offer both SaaS and on-prem hosting options; I opted for the on-prem because it is free and I haven’t setup a linux server in a while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They don’t have installation steps for the software running on the host, but they do offer an OVF just for our needs (currently running VMWare 6.7 with VCenter). Great!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Followed along with (https:\/\/support.getjoan.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/115003534485-On-premises-hosting) the getjoan install site. Downloaded the OVF tgz file.
\nAlready I was a bit upset – why is this compressed with tgz? I should note there is no space savings realized by performing these actions; we’re still at just over 2GB for the entire file, but now I have 3 copies of it..
\nUncompressed it and now it’s a .tar file. Inside the .tar is the OVF and VMDK files I need, so I simply renamed this .tar to .ova and went about importing into VMWare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Selected my files for import and during validation it FAILED!
\nIssues detected with selected template. Details: – 60:7:VALUE_ILLEGAL: Value ”lsilogic” of ResourceSubType element not found in []. – 69:7:VALUE_ILLEGAL: Value ”lsilogic” of ResourceSubType element not found in []. – 78:7:VALUE_ILLEGAL: Value ”3” of Parent element does not refer to a ref of type DiskControllerReference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Super helpful. So I untar’d the file to be able to edit the .ovf manifest in my favorite text editor. I changed it from lsilogic to lsilogicsas and re-ran. Received a different error, but still no dice. Some google searches later led me to attempt to bypass vsphere completely and import directly onto one of my hosts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
http:\/\/host\/ui and a login later, I had the OVA imported successfully! Yay!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Booted it up and it has the virtualbox tools already installed. This delays the startup of the machine while it waits:
\n“A start job is running for the raise network”
\nFive. Minutes. Later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’m on VMware, so this virtualbox bridged network won’t ever work!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well, let’s install vmtools so that I can at least stop using the console and SSH in like a normal person: Failed!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Need to add the cdrom drive to the machine, but I can’t do that while it’s running. Stop the machine, add the CDROM drive, and start it back up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Another. Five. Minutes. FML!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fix the waiting game for Networking: Stop virtualbox from starting up and failing: Now to install vmware’s tools: I’ll potentially update this when\/if I actually get into the configuration of Joan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I wanted to add some room booking assistants to our conference rooms. My last place used evoko units – which worked quite well – but they required 1) PoE ethernet drops and 2) $1100 each. So after reading about Joan I decided to get one to try out. They offer both SaaS and on-prem hosting … Continue reading Joan Room Booking<\/span>
\nsudo mkdir -p \/etc\/systemd\/system\/networking.service.d\/<\/code>
\nsudo bash -c 'echo -e \"[Service]\\nTimeoutStartSec=20sec\" > \/etc\/systemd\/system\/networking.service.d\/timeout.conf'<\/code>
\nsudo systemctl daemon-reload<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nsudo systemctl disable vboxadd.service<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nUsing vcenter, select to install vmware tools on the running vm
\nThen, using command line:
\nsudo mkdir \/mnt\/cdrom<\/code>
\nsudo mount \/dev\/cdrom \/mnt\/cdrom<\/code>
\ntar xzvf \/mnt\/cdrom\/VMWareTools-* -C \/tmp<\/code>
\ncd \/tmp\/vmware-tools-distrib\/<\/code>
\nsudo .\/vmware-install.pl<\/code>
\nFollow along with the wizard to install
\nReboot<\/p>\n\n\n\n