# Logging to File

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/logging-to-file/5961>\
**Category:** RancherOS\
**Created:** [March 24, 2017, 3:41pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/logging-to-file/5961 "2017-03-24T15:41:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![broesch-dkk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5e925/32.png) [@broesch-dkk](https://forums.suse.com/u/broesch-dkk)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 6:56am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/logging-to-file/5961/5 "2017-03-28T06:56:41Z")

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Ok, I’ll try that.

My work in progress is available on github:

> **[GitHub - broesch/rancher-os at docker-machine-vsphere](https://github.com/broesch/rancher-os/tree/docker-machine-vsphere)**
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> docker-machine-vsphere

The problem is that it’s really ugly and not really portable, that’s why I’m trying again with 0.9.x to see to find a more portable solution. I’ll push an update as soon as i have something working.  
It would be great if you could give me your thoughts, and we could find a “official” solution. Maintaining this as a fork is not the best idea.

The discussion on my progress is here:

> [@Custom ISO launching System Service](http://forums.suse.com/t/custom-iso-launching-system-service/5143/3):
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> Hi Josh, thanks for your answer. I actually solved the issue with the permissions: see more here: But I have run in to an other issue, could you maybe land me a hand? It is in the thread mention above.

> [@Problems provisioning Host on vsphere](http://forums.suse.com/t/problems-provisioning-host-on-vsphere/5109/6):
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> I have actually solved it the problem was that when using docker-machine with the vshpere driver, vsphere connects to the open-vm-tools in order to transfer userdata.tar(ssh keys, etc.). This connections is using the username:pass docker:tcuser which had to be created in the container running open-vm-tools. (I had to hack some other details related to docker-machine expecting boot2docker and not rancher), but it is working now. Kind of… The Host can be created (even from the Rancher web interfa…

This feels off-topic, I’ll start a new thread once I have something new and post the link here.

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