HP Integrity Virtual Machines Installation, Configuration, and Administration Version A.03.50

# hpvmcreate -P myguest1 -c 4 -r 2G -a disk:scsi::disk:/dev/rdsk/c1t2d0

Create a virtual machine named myguest2, specifying two virtual CPUs and a virtual switch

named vswitch1. Each virtual CPU has a 50% entitlement.

# hpvmcreate -P myguest2 -c 2 -e 50 -a disk:scsi::disk:/dev/rdsk/c2t2d0 \

-a network:avio_lan::vswitch:vswitch1

Create a virtual machine named cougar with two virtual CPUs, 2 GB memory, a virtual disk

backed by a whole disk, a virtual disk backed by a partition, a virtual disk backed by an LVM

volume, a virtual DVD backed by an ISO file, a virtual network interface backed by virtual switch

localnet, and an accelerated virtual network interface backed by virtual switch hostnet:

# hpvmcreate -P cougar -c 2 -r 2G \

-a disk:scsi::disk:/dev/rdsk/c3t1d0 \

-a disk:scsi::disk:/dev/rdsk/c2t1d0s1 \

-a disk:scsi::lv:/dev/vg00/rguestvol1 \

-a dvd:scsi::file:/var/opt/hpvm/ISO-images/hpux/1123505GOLD.ISO \

-a network:lan::vswitch:localnet \

-a network:avio_lan::vswitch:hostnet

Following are sample warning messages returned when the hpvmcreate command is executed

with various configuration problems on the guest myguest3:

HPVM guest myguest3 configuration problems:

Warning 1: Guest needs more vcpus than server supports.

Warning 2: Insufficient free memory for guest.

Warning 3: Insufficient swap resource for guest.

Warning 4: Insufficient cpu resource for guest.

Warning 5 on item /dev/rdsk/c2t1d0: Device file '/dev/rdsk/c2t1d0' in use by another guest.

Warning 6 on item /dev/vg00/rswap: Device file '/dev/vg00/rswap' in use by server.

Warning 7 on item /dev/rdsk/c1t1d3 backing device does not exist.

Warning 8 on item /dev/rdsk/c3t1d0: Device file '/dev/rdsk/c3t1d0' in use by another guest.

Warning 9 on item hostnet: MAC address in use for switch hostnet.

Warning 10 on item offnet: Vswitch offnet is not active.

Warning 11 on item badnet: 'badnet' backing device does not exist.

These problems will prevent HPVM guest myguest3 from booting.

The following example shows how to create the guest myguest1 and specify dynamic memory

control.

# hpvmcreate -P myguest1 -c 4 -r 2G -a disk:scsi::disk:/dev/rdsk/c1t2d0 -x dynamic_memory_control=1

AUTHORS

Thehpvmcreate command was developed by HP.