HP Integrity Virtual Machines 4.2: Installation, Configuration, and Administration

3 Creating Virtual Machines..........................................................................................43
3.1 Legacy and Agile Device Names.....................................................................................................43
3.2 Specifying Virtual Machine Characteristics....................................................................................44
3.2.1 Virtual Machine Name............................................................................................................45
3.2.2 Guest Operating System Type.................................................................................................45
3.2.3 Virtual CPUs............................................................................................................................45
3.2.4 Entitlement..............................................................................................................................46
3.2.5 Guest Memory Allocation.......................................................................................................46
3.2.6 Automatic Cell Balancing........................................................................................................47
3.2.7 Virtual Devices........................................................................................................................47
3.2.7.1 Creating Virtual Network Devices..................................................................................47
3.2.7.2 Creating Virtual Storage Devices....................................................................................48
3.2.8 Creating Virtual Machine Labels............................................................................................50
3.2.9 Specifying the Virtual Machine Boot Attribute.......................................................................50
3.2.10 Specifying Dynamic Memory Parameters.............................................................................51
3.2.11 Configuration Limits.............................................................................................................51
3.2.12 Sizing Guidelines...................................................................................................................52
3.2.13 Default Guest Settings for HP-UX, Windows, and Linux.....................................................52
3.3 Using the hpvmcreate Command................................................................................................53
3.3.1 Example of Virtual Machine Creation.....................................................................................54
3.4 Starting Virtual Machines................................................................................................................55
3.5 Changing Virtual Machine Configurations.....................................................................................56
3.6 Cloning Virtual Machines...............................................................................................................59
3.7 Stopping Virtual Machines..............................................................................................................62
3.8 Removing Virtual Machines............................................................................................................63
3.9 Troubleshooting Virtual Machine Creation Problems....................................................................64
3.9.1 Configuration Error on Starting the Virtual Machine.............................................................64
4 Creating HP-UX Guests................................................................................................65
4.1 Installing the HP-UX Guest Operating System...............................................................................65
4.2 Do Not Create Golden Images of the VM Host for Guest Installation...........................................68
4.3 Golden Images of Systems with HPVM-Guest Installed Must have HPVM Device Drivers
Configured............................................................................................................................................68
4.4 Installing HP-UX Guest Management Software.............................................................................68
4.5 Troubleshooting HP-UX Guest Creation.........................................................................................69
4.5.1 The guest hangs in the EFI shell..............................................................................................69
5 Creating Windows Guests..........................................................................................71
5.1 Windows Guest Requirements........................................................................................................71
5.2 Installing Windows Server 2008 Guests..........................................................................................71
5.2.1 Installing Windows Server 2008 Guests from the Microsoft RTM Media..............................73
5.2.2 Setting up Windows Server 2008 Environment after Network Installation...........................76
5.2.3 Disabling the Windows Watchdog Timer...............................................................................76
5.3 Managing Windows Guests............................................................................................................77
5.4 Installing Integrity VM Windows Guest Management Software...................................................79
5.5 Troubleshooting Windows Guest Installation................................................................................79
5.5.1 Remote desktop unable to connect.........................................................................................79
6 Creating Linux Guests..................................................................................................81
6.1 Installing Linux Guests...................................................................................................................81
6.1.1 Preparing to Install Linux Guests...........................................................................................81
6.1.2 Using this Procedure...............................................................................................................81
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