I'm at another "stuck" point.
My linked clone pool refuses to finish. Here are my events from the relevent time period (most recent in first screenshot):
http://screencast.com/t/KJM6k67qTZ
Basically.. the events show the following:
1. Trying to provision.
2. Successfully configured video settings for Machine VM (three A-OK)
3. Provisioning error occured for (all three machines): Customization operation timed out.
4. Automatic error recover for Pool.
5. Attempting to restart (all three machines).
6. Automatic error recovery for pool: Delete all three machines.
7. Successful delete of all three machines.
8. Go to 2.
And repeat all night / day long.
In connecting to the ESXi server I find:
1. All three VMs are started.
2. They're waiting for someone to CTL-ALT-DEL them.
3. In spot checking, (and manually logging on)
they ARE getting DHCP (which I learned could be a cause of failure to provision; but this is not problem)
Any thoughts?
Attached my vCenter logs if that would help. Thanks !