# Add Host to vmware vsphere hangs **URL:** \ **Category:** Rancher 1.x\ **Created:** [March 23, 2016, 7:14pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/add-host-to-vmware-vsphere-hangs/2139 "2016-03-23T19:14:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![hhamilton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/hhamilton/32/584_2.png) [@hhamilton](https://forums.suse.com/u/hhamilton)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2016, 7:14pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/add-host-to-vmware-vsphere-hangs/2139/1 "2016-03-23T19:14:28Z")
When I “Add Host” in Rancher v0.63.1 using the vmwarevsphere driver it creates the VM on vSphere 5.5 and starts it. However in the Rancher GUI it hangs saying "Creating , Setting Up machine, Creating Machine " in Rancher and never comes back. Any ideas? ---
**Author:** ![denise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/82dd89/32.png) [@denise](https://forums.suse.com/u/denise)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2016, 7:41pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/add-host-to-vmware-vsphere-hangs/2139/2 "2016-03-23T19:41:03Z")
Can you provide the rancher/server logs for when you launch the host? Hide any sensitive information. Also, can you confirm that the docker-machine command that you find from the logs can be launched through docker-machine with no issues? ---
**Author:** ![hhamilton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/hhamilton/32/584_2.png) [@hhamilton](https://forums.suse.com/u/hhamilton)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 2:42pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/add-host-to-vmware-vsphere-hangs/2139/3 "2016-03-24T14:42:01Z")
I can’t seem to find any good log messages from the server but This is what I see when I run docker-machine from the same box that has the Rancher Server: [root@ny-dock-reg-npd01 ~]# docker-machine -D create --driver vmwarevsphere --vmwarevsphere-username=root --vmwarevsphere-password=\*\*\*\*\*\* --vmwarevsphere-vcenter=X.X.X.X --vmwarevsphere-hostsystem=X.X.X.X --vmwarevsphere-disk-size=10000 --vmwarevsphere-datastore=EXT\_STORAGE3 --vmwarevsphere-datacenter=“X.X.X.X” --vmwarevsphere-boot2docker-url=https://releases.rancher.com/os/latest/ranch Docker Machine Version: 0.6.0, build e27fb87 Found binary path at /usr/local/bin/docker-machine Launching plugin server for driver vmwarevsphere Plugin server listening at address 127.0.0.1:33642 () Calling .GetVersion Using API Version 1 () Calling .SetConfigRaw () Calling .GetMachineName (flag-lookup) Calling .GetMachineName (flag-lookup) Calling .DriverName (flag-lookup) Calling .GetCreateFlags Found binary path at /usr/local/bin/docker-machine Launching plugin server for driver vmwarevsphere Plugin server listening at address 127.0.0.1:38646 () Calling .GetVersion Using API Version 1 () Calling .SetConfigRaw () Calling .GetMachineName (ny-rancheros-test03) Calling .GetMachineName (ny-rancheros-test03) Calling .DriverName (ny-rancheros-test03) Calling .GetCreateFlags (ny-rancheros-test03) Calling .SetConfigFromFlags Running pre-create checks… (ny-rancheros-test03) Calling .PreCreateCheck (ny-rancheros-test03) DBG | Connecting to vSphere for pre-create checks… (ny-rancheros-test03) Calling .GetConfigRaw Creating machine… (ny-rancheros-test03) Calling .Create (ny-rancheros-test03) Downloading /root/.docker/machine/cache/boot2docker.iso from [https://releases.rancher.com/os/latest/rancheros.iso](https://releases.rancher.com/os/latest/rancheros.iso)… Message from syslogd@ny-dock-reg-npd01 at Mar 24 10:40:01 … kernel:unregister\_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free. Usage count = 1 (ny-rancheros-test03) 0%…10%…20%…30%…40%…50%…60%…70%…80%…90%…100% (ny-rancheros-test03) Generating SSH Keypair… (ny-rancheros-test03) Creating VM… (ny-rancheros-test03) Uploading Boot2docker ISO … (ny-rancheros-test03) Reconfiguring VM… (ny-rancheros-test03) Waiting for VMware Tools to come online… And it just hangs there. ---
**Author:** ![denise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/82dd89/32.png) [@denise](https://forums.suse.com/u/denise)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 4:41pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/add-host-to-vmware-vsphere-hangs/2139/4 "2016-03-24T16:41:15Z")
Can you confirm that you are trying to launch RancherOS? ---
**Author:** ![hhamilton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/hhamilton/32/584_2.png) [@hhamilton](https://forums.suse.com/u/hhamilton)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 8:03pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/add-host-to-vmware-vsphere-hangs/2139/5 "2016-03-24T20:03:42Z")
Yes, I"m using this url to grab rancherOS : –vmwarevsphere-boot2docker-url=https://releases.rancher.com/os/latest/rancheros.iso docker-machine --debug create --driver vmwarevsphere --vmwarevsphere-username=xxxxx –vmwarevsphere-password=xxxx --vmwarevsphere-vcenter=xxxxx –vmwarevsphere-hostsystem=xxxxx –vmwarevsphere-disk-size=10000 –vmwarevsphere-datastore=‘EXT\_STORAGE1 (1)’ –vmwarevsphere-datacenter=“xxxxxx” –vmwarevsphere-boot2docker-url=https://releases.rancher.com/os/latest/rancheros.iso ny-rancheros-test07 ---
**Author:** ![Moridinmhael](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/moridinmhael/32/144_2.png) [@Moridinmhael](https://forums.suse.com/u/Moridinmhael)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2016, 9:08am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/add-host-to-vmware-vsphere-hangs/2139/6 "2016-03-26T09:08:56Z")
The docker VMvSphere does not support RancherOS, only supports boot2docker. > **[VMware vSphere](https://docs.docker.com/machine/drivers/vsphere/)** > > Creates machines on a VMware vSphere Virtual Infrastructure. The machine must have a working vSphere ESXi installation. You can use a paid license or free 60 day trial license. Your... I would love it too support RancherOS, but there are better solutions coming or out there specifically from VMWare: > **[VMware Cloud-Native Apps Announcements at VMworld 2015 - Cloud-Native Apps](https://blogs.vmware.com/cloudnative/2015/08/31/vmware-cloud-native-apps-announcements-vmworld-2015/)** > > Announcing VMware vSphere Integrated Containers and VMware Photon Platform It’s been a whirlwind few months for us in the Cloud-Native Apps team at VMware.  We announced a number of new projects and products, presented at many conferences and... VIC and Photon ---
**Author:** ![guzmo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a3d4f5/32.png) [@guzmo](https://forums.suse.com/u/guzmo)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2016, 6:17pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/add-host-to-vmware-vsphere-hangs/2139/7 "2016-09-11T18:17:33Z")
Is this possible to fix? I looked in the docker-machine code and it didn’t look hard to add it. B2D username/password is hardcoded though. How are we supposed to run rancheros instead of b2d in production for example? Do we have to create custom hosts? I like that when we create the hosts via rancher ( api ) it will also remove the hosts when we delete the environment so we don’t have to handle all the cleanup ( Databases etc is enought to cleanup 😛 ) ---
**Author:** ![SvenDowideit](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/svendowideit/32/2159_2.png) [@SvenDowideit](https://forums.suse.com/u/SvenDowideit)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2017, 11:06pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/add-host-to-vmware-vsphere-hangs/2139/8 "2017-04-19T23:06:18Z")
I’ve been using Docker-machine to create vbox and vmware (workstation) RancherOS boxes for at least 0.9 and 1.0 - so I presume you mean something needs to be modfied in the esxi machine driver?