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Bug 1571040 - can't use --image option to create a new host in VMware
Summary: can't use --image option to create a new host in VMware
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Satellite
Classification: Red Hat
Component: Hammer
Version: 6.3.1
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: Unspecified
Assignee: satellite6-bugs
QA Contact: Katello QA List
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-04-24 02:05 UTC by matt jia
Modified: 2018-04-24 05:48 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-04-24 05:48:37 UTC
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Description matt jia 2018-04-24 02:05:07 UTC 
Description of problem:

To create a new host in VMware with a hammer command like this

hammer -d  host create \
  --name "lonlxt90014" \
  --organization "XXX" \
  --location "rnd" \
  --hostgroup-id 22 \
  --content-source-id 1 \
  --compute-resource-id 3 \
  --provision-method image \
  --image "RHEL7.4-16042018" \
  --ip xx.xx.xx.xx \
  --subnet-id 1 \
  --managed true \
  --interface="compute_type=VirtualVmxnet3, \
               compute_network=network-44"  \
  --compute-attributes="cpus=1, \
                        corespersocket=2, \
                        memory_mb=2048,
                        cluster='Woking RND', \
                        path='/Datacenters/Woking RND/vm/Discovered virtual machine',guest_id=rhel6_64Guest,hardware_version=vmx-08" \
  --volume="size_gb=60, \
            datastore=ESX_DataStore_ISO, \
            name='Hard disk 1', \
            thin=true, eager_zero=false,mode=persistent"

failed with the below error


2018-04-20 07:26:04 f633416b [app] [W] Failed to create a compute example.localhost.nom (VMware) instance example.localhost.com: undefined method `include?' for nil:NilClass
 |
 | NoMethodError: undefined method `include?' for nil:NilClass
 | /opt/theforeman/tfm/root/usr/share/gems/gems/fog-vsphere-1.7.0/lib/fog/vsphere/requests/compute/get_virtual_machine.rb:40:in `get_vm_by_name'
 | /opt/theforeman/tfm/root/usr/share/gems/gems/fog-vsphere-1.7.0/lib/fog/vsphere/requests/compute/get_virtual_machine.rb:23:in `get_vm_ref'
 | /opt/theforeman/tfm/root/usr/share/gems/gems/fog-vsphere-1.7.0/lib/fog/vsphere/requests/compute/get_virtual_machine.rb:7:in `get_virtual_machine'
 | /opt/theforeman/tfm/root/usr/share/gems/gems/fog-vsphere-1.7.0/lib/fog/vsphere/requests/compute/vm_clone.rb:22:in `vm_clone_check_options'
 | /opt/theforeman/tfm/root/usr/share/gems/gems/fog-vsphere-1.7.0/lib/fog/vsphere/requests/compute/vm_clone.rb:96:in `vm_clone'
 | /usr/share/foreman/app/models/compute_resources/foreman/model/vmware.rb:476:in `clone_vm'
 | /usr/share/foreman/app/models/compute_resources/foreman/model/vmware.rb:410:in `create_vm'
 | /usr/share/foreman/app/models/concerns/orchestration/compute.rb:77:in `setCompute'
 | /usr/share/foreman/app/models/concerns/orchestration.rb:216:in `execute'
 | /usr/share/foreman/app/models/concerns/orchestration.rb:144:in `block in process'
 | /usr/share/foreman/app/models/concerns/orchestration.rb:136:in `each'
 | /usr/share/foreman/app/models/concerns/orchestration.rb:136:in `process'
 | /usr/share/foreman/app/models/concerns/orchestration.rb:44:in `around_save_orchestration'



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

6.3


How reproducible:

Easy


Steps to Reproduce:

use the command above to create a new host in VMware

Actual results:

Failed to create a compute example.localhost.nom (VMware) instance example.localhost.com: undefined method `include?' for nil:NilClass


Expected results:

should be able to use --image to create a new host


Additional info:

I'm aware that using --image_id can solve this problem. Maybe this is the way that we are encouraging people to use, but I don't see any reason why we shouldn't support using --image.
If there is a reasonable reason, at least we should give a clear error message instead of 'undefined method `include?' for nil:NilClass'.
Comment 2 matt jia 2018-04-24 05:41:31 UTC 
It turns out that I've misread the code. I'll file a new bug against this issue.
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