Container Service Extension 3.1.1 was released a few days back with new enhancements. The release announcements were made here and here.
Although the deployment procedure hasn’t changed much, mine was not smooth and I faced a couple of hiccups. This blog post discusses the problem I experienced and how I resolved it.
After installing VCD-CLI using pip, I was unable to execute any VCD command. The command was throwing an error as shown below:
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[root@cse ~]# vcd version Traceback (most recent call last): File "/root/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/vcd_cli/browsercookie/__init__.py", line 18, in <module> from pysqlite2 import dbapi2 as sqlite3 ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pysqlite2' During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/root/.local/bin/vcd", line 5, in <module> from vcd_cli.vcd import vcd File "/root/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/vcd_cli/vcd.py", line 121, in <module> from vcd_cli import login # NOQA File "/root/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/vcd_cli/login.py", line 24, in <module> from vcd_cli import browsercookie File "/root/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/vcd_cli/browsercookie/__init__.py", line 20, in <module> import sqlite3 File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/sqlite3/__init__.py", line 23, in <module> from sqlite3.dbapi2 import * File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/sqlite3/dbapi2.py", line 27, in <module> from _sqlite3 import * ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_sqlite3' |
On further investigation, I found that the Python installation is missing module ‘sqlite’. A similar issue is described on stackoverflow
I have installed Python 3.7.12 on CentOS 7 VM and executed the following steps to fix the issue.
Step 1: Install sqlite-devel package
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[root@cse ~]# yum install sqlite-devel -y |
Step 2: Reconfigure Python to load sqlite module.
Navigate to the directory where you have extracted Python installation binaries and run the below command:
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[root@cse ~]# ./configure --enable-loadable-sqlite-extensions && make altinstall |
After the Python reconciliation was complete, I ran the vcd command again, and it worked flawlessly.
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[root@cse ~]# vcd version vcd-cli, VMware vCloud Director Command Line Interface, 24.0.1 |
I hope this post will save some time for the readers who are facing similar issues with their deployment.
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