HP Integrity Virtual Machines Version 4.2 Release Notes

4.1.2.16 Restoring the NVRAM for Windows Guests
When a guest has been terminated unexpectedly due to a panic or another critical condition, the
guest's boot settings (which are stored in a per-guest NVRAM file on the VM Host) can become
corrupted. This can cause problems with subsequent reboots of that guest. To correct the problem,
copy the file /opt/hpvm/guest-images/common/nvram to
/var/opt/hpvm/guests/vm_name/nvram on the VM Host system. This procedure restores
the copy of the NVRAM that was used when the guest was created. Then you can used the EFI
Boot Manager to recreate the guest's boot path and other data. (The installed guest's operating
system should be intact and unaffected by the corruption.)
To build the EFI Boot Menu Entry for Windows Server 2003 guest:
1. From the EFI Shell, enter the following command, which assumes that the guest boot disk
is fs0:
fs0> ls \EFI\Microsoft\WINNT50
Look for the Bootxxxx filename.
2. Change to the MSUtil directory. For example:
fs0> cd \MSUtil
3. Enter the following command:
fs0:> nvrboot
4. Enter the I command to import the Windows boot entry. Then enter the correct location of
the boot entry. For example:
\EFI\Microsoft\WINNT50\Bootxxxx
To build the EFI Boot Menu Entry for a Windows Server 2008 guest:
1. From the EFI Shell, enter the following command, which assumes that the guest boot disk
is fs0:
Shell> bcfg boot add 1 fs0:\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmfgw.efi "Windows Boot Disk"
4.2 HP-UX Guests
The following sections contain release notes specific to installing HP-UX guests.
4.2.1 Changes and Issues in this Release
The following sections describes new information and issues pertaining to HP-UX guests in the
V4.2 release.
4.2.1.1 HP-UX Guests Supported on Intel® Itanium® 9300 Processor Series
Only HP-UX 11i v2 (Fusion release December 2007 and later) and HP-UX 11i v3 (Fusion release
March 2009 and later) are supported on Intel® Itanium® 9300 Processor Series systems.
4.2.1.2 LV Mirroring Supported on HP-UX Guests
LV Mirroring is supported on HP-UX guests as long as GuestAVIOStor version B.11.31.1003 or
later is installed on the VM guest and HostAVIOStor version B.11.31.1003.01 or later is installed
on the VM Host.
4.2.1.3 Machinfo Problems with VM Guests on Intel® Itanium® 9300 Processor Series System
The HP-UX machinfo command on HP-UX 11i v2 and 11i v3 guests running on 9300 series
systems will report incorrect information if the following required HP-UX patches have not been
installed:
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