HP Integrity Virtual Machines 4.2.5: Release Notes

-l Lists unused devices that can be added for guest use. (For example, pipe -l output to a file

for use with —f.)

-r Recovers the Integrity VM device management database.

-u Uses disklist device cache (Do not force hardware scan.).

NOTE: This option is used to speed up the disklist command to obtain unused disks.

Use the -u option before using the following options:

• -a

• -c disklist

• -l

-v Verifies add and delete operations by this script (with the AUTOGDEV=YES attribute).

• all — lists all guest devices.

• assigned — lists all guest devices configured by any guests.

• unassigned — lists all guest devices not configured by any guests.

RETURN VALUES

The hpvmhostgdev command exits with one of the following values:

0: Successful completion.

1: One or more error conditions occurred.

DIAGNOSTICS

The hpvmhostgdev command displays error messages for any of the following conditions:

An invalid option is specified.

An empty or invalid file is specified with the -f option.

EXAMPLES

The following example adds unused disks and logical volumes as gdevs:

# hpvmhostgdev -a

The following example illustrates how to make a file of unused disk and logical volumes, and then

how to use the list to add them to as gdevs:

# hpvmhostgdev -l > devicelist

# hpvmhostgdev -f devicelist

NOTE: You can edit the devicelist file to remove disks and logical volumes that you do not

want added as gdevs.

The following example verifies guest devices added to the device database by the hpvmhostgdev

script:

# hpvmhostgdev -v all

The following example deletes guest devices added by the hpmvhostgdev script:

# hpvmhostgdev -d

AUTHORS

The hpvmhostgdev command was developed by HP.