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

4 Creating HP-UX Guests
To create HP-UX guests, install the HP-UX operating system on the virtual machine. To install
the HP-UX guest operating system, follow the procedures in the following sections:
• “Installing the HP-UX Guest Operating System”
• “Installing HP-UX Guest Management Software”
• “Troubleshooting HP-UX Guest Creation”
4.1 Installing the HP-UX Guest Operating System
You can install either HP-UX 11i v2 operating system or the HP-UX 11i v3 operating system as
a guest OS, See the HP Integrity Virtual Machines 4.2: Release Notes, Chapter 11 Integrity VM Support
Policy for a list of supported versions of the HP-UX operating system.
To install the HP-UX operating system on the virtual machine, follow this procedure:
1. Start the virtual machine from the VM Host administrator account using the hpvmstart
command. For example, to start the virtual machine called host1, enter the following
command. The hpvmstatus command shows that the virtual machine is started.
# hpvmstart -P host1
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Initializing System Event Log
Initializing Forward Progress Log
Opening minor device and creating guest machine container
Creation of VM, minor device 2
Allocating guest memory: 2048MB
allocating low RAM (0-40000000, 2048MB)
/opt/hpvm/lbin/hpvmapp (/var/opt/hpvm/uuids/8ba249f2-3399-11db-aacc-00306ef392e0
/vmm_config.next): Allocated 1073741824 bytes at 0x6000000100000000
locking memory: 0-40000000
allocating firmware RAM (ffaa0000-ffab5000, 84KB)
/opt/hpvm/lbin/hpvmapp (/var/opt/hpvm/uuids/8ba249f2-3399-11db-aacc-00306ef392e0
/vmm_config.next): Allocated 86016 bytes at 0x6000000140000000
locked SAL RAM: 00000000ffaa0000 (4KB)
locked ESI RAM: 00000000ffaa1000 (4KB)
locked PAL RAM: 00000000ffaa4000 (4KB)
locked Min Save State: 00000000ffaa5000 (1KB)
RAM alignment: 40000000
Memory base low : 6000000100000000
Memory base FW : 6000000140000000
Loading boot image
Image initial IP=102000 GP=62C000
Initialize guest memory mapping tables
Starting event polling thread
Starting thread initialization
Daemonizing....
hpvmstart: Successful start initiation of guest 'host1'
# hpvmstatus
[Virtual Machines]
Virtual Machine Name VM # OS Type State #VCPUs #Devs #Nets Memory Runsysid
==================== ===== ======= ========= ====== ===== ===== ======= ========
config1 1 HPUX Off 1 5 1 512 MB 0
config2 2 HPUX Off 1 7 1 1 GB 0
winguest1 5 WINDOWS On (OS) 1 5 1 1 GB 0
winguest2 9 WINDOWS Off 1 3 1 2 GB 0
host1 12 UNKNOWN On (EFI) 1 0 0 2 GB 0
2. To boot the guest from the virtual console, enter the following command:
# hpvmconsole -P host1
vMP MAIN MENU
CO: Console
CM: Command Menu
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