Encountered error: Failed to write to log file: Cannot bind argument to parameter 'Path' because it is an empty string.

[Sebastien Meloche]

Loaded my config with Get-HolodeckConfig

Then tried a straightforward VCF single site deploy, and got this error

PS /holodeck-runtime/logs> New-HoloDeckInstance -Version "9.0" -WorkloadDomainType "SharedSSO" -NsxEdgeClusterMgmtDomain -NsxEdgeClusterWkldDomain -DeployVcfAutomation -DeploySupervisor -DepotType "Offline"
01-10-2025 14:12:04  PreChecks[412016]: [ERROR] Failed to complete Pre-Checks. Encountered error:
Failed to write to log file: Cannot bind argument to parameter 'Path' because it is an empty string.
Exception: Exiting
PS /root> $error
Exception: Exiting

Add-Content: Cannot bind argument to parameter 'Path' because it is an empty string.

Get-Content: Cannot bind argument to parameter 'Path' because it is null.

Not using dhcp, two dns servers, space seperated in ova config, dunno what else to check.

[Dhruv Tyagi]

Did you run New-HoloDeckConfig command before running the New-HoloDeckInstance command? This will create and load the config in your current powershell session

https://vmware.github.io/Holodeck/#run-holodeck-deployment

You can run $config in your powershell session to check if the config is actually loaded. If you see nothing and you already created the config, you need to run:

Get-HoloDeckConfig - get the config ID, then

Import-HoloDeckConfig -ConfigID <ID from above>