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

NOTE: You might receive a warning message during the guest installation process indicating
that the AVIO bundles are not installed. The installation will continue and complete successfully.
The AVIO bundles are optional and install by default. If they do not, and if you want to install
them with the Integrity VM bundle T2767CC, go to the HP-UX 11i v3 0903 media and look for
the following bundles to install on the HP-UX guest, GuestAVIOStor and GuestAvioLan.
After you install the AVIO bundles, upgrade your guest configurations to use AVIO.
NOTE: After installing the HP-UX operating system as a guest OS, HP recommends that you
also install the PHKL_38623 and PHKL_38762 patches on the guest. These patches, which are
included with the feature11i 0903 bundle, increase the accuracy of cycle-based accounting in the
guest.
4.2 Do Not Create Golden Images of the VM Host for Guest Installation
Do not use the VM Host to create golden images to be used for guest OS installations using
Ignite-UX.
An Integrity system can be used to create a golden image suitable for OS installation on a virtual
machine, provided it has all of the VM Host software completely removed. To do so, remove
both the Integrity VM bundle (T2767CC) and the VMKernelSW bundle:
# swremove -x autoreboot=true T2767CC VMKernelSW
Before using the system to create a golden image, verify that neither of these bundles are installed.
That is, errors should result when querying the system with swlist:
# swlist T2767CC VMKernelSW
# Initializing...
# Contacting target "foo"...
ERROR: Software "T2767CC" was not found on host "foo:/".
ERROR: Software "VMKernelSW" was not found on host "foo:/".
For more information about using Ignite-UX golden images, see the Ignite-UX Administration
Guide.
4.3 Golden Images of Systems with HPVM-Guest Installed Must have HPVM
Device Drivers Configured
Golden images of systems with HPVM-Guest bundle installed must explicitly configure the
dynamic memory device driver. If your golden system has the HPVM-Guest bundle installed,
be sure the dynamic memory device driver is configured correctly in the associated golden
image's configuration file. To achieve this, add the line
set_kernel += “module hpvmdynmem loaded”
after the “init_sw_sel” stanza in the golden image's configuration file. Failure to do so might
render the dynamic memory control inoperable when the golden image is installed on a virtual
machine.
4.4 Installing HP-UX Guest Management Software
After you install the HP-UX operating system on the virtual machine, install the Integrity VM
guest management software. The guest management software includes:
• Operating system patches to optimize virtual machine operation
• Integrity VM management tools, including hpvmcollect and hpvminfo
• The VM Provider, which allows you to use the VM Manager to manage the guest.
To install guest management software on an HP-UX guest, select the appropriate version of
HP-UX:
68 Creating HP-UX Guests