vic-machine: validation failed if dvSwitch exists in ESXi target

[emlin]

root [ ~/vic/bin ]# ./vic-machine -target esxi-hp-08.rainpole.com -user root -passwd VMware123! -compute-resource /ha-datacenter/host/esxi-hp-08.rainpole.com/Resources -image-store esxi-hp-08-local -management-network "VM Network"
INFO[2016-05-19T11:49:38Z] ### Installing VCH ####
INFO[2016-05-19T11:49:38Z] Generating certificate/key pair - private key in ./docker-appliance-key.pem
INFO[2016-05-19T11:49:38Z] Validating supplied configuration
ERRO[2016-05-19T11:49:40Z] Unable to get network: SystemError
FATA[2016-05-19T11:49:40Z] Validating supplied configuration failed. Exiting...

[6:57]
In the hostd.log, I see the following:

[6:57]
2016-05-18T15:23:51.346Z error hostd[32EC4B70] [Originator@6876 sub=PropertyProvider opID=328016ee user=root] Unexpected fault reading property: vim.DistributedVirtualSwitch, GetNetworkResourcePool: N5Vmomi5Fault12NotSupported9ExceptionE(vmodl.fault.NotSupported)
2016-05-18T15:23:51.346Z error hostd[32EC4B70] [Originator@6876 sub=PropertyProvider opID=328016ee user=root] Unexpected fault reading property: vim.DistributedVirtualSwitch, GetRuntime: N5Vmomi5Fault12NotSupported9ExceptionE(vmodl.fault.NotSupported)

[7:00]
Could we get a better error message bubble up to vic-machine? Probably something along the lines of “VIC cannot use an ESXi host as a target when a DVS is present” or something to that effect

[dougm]

Sounds like we should detect if the ESX host is managed by a VC and exit 1 with a friendly error message, before the installer would even get to this point.

[emlin]

This sounds good. Is there interface in govmomi?

[hickeng]

This can occur even if the ESX is not managed by VC - you can have residual config on the ESX in various scenarios.

[stuclem]

Already in the release notes, so removing the kind/note tag.

[corrieb]

@emlin. I don't believe this is still an issue. Let's close if not.

[emlin]

@corrieb I didn't test it atm, but as comment above, this can occur even if there is left over in ESXi which ever is managed by VC.

@andrewtchin did you ever touch this?
If not, we'd leave it open

[andrewtchin]

I have not tested this