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

• file. For the physical device, specify a locally-mounted, non-NFS, VxFS file (for example,
/guestfiles/diskfile1).
• null. Specifies an empty storage unit. This should not be a world-writable directory such
as tmp. (This is useful for removable media, such as DVDs.)
• attach. Specifies an attached device, such as a tape device, media changer, or CD/DVD
burner.
The physical device names must not contain the following characters: colon (:), semicolon (;),
and comma (,).
The following example shows how to associate a guest virtual disk device with a physical disk
device as follows:
disk:scsi:0,1,0:disk:/dev/rdsk/c1t2d0
• The virtual device type is disk.
• The virtual device adapter type is scsi.
• The virtual device PCI bus number is 0.
• The virtual device PCI slot number is 1.
• The virtual device SCSI target number is 0.
• The physical storage type is disk.
• The physical device is /dev/rdsk/c1t2d0.
The following example shows how to associate an empty guest virtual DVD with multiple future
choices of ISO files:
dvd:scsi::null:/docs
• The virtual device type is dvd.
• The virtual device adapter type is scsi.
• The virtual device hardware address is automatically generated.
• The physical storage type is null.
• The physical device is /docs.
The following example shows how to specify a tape device:
tape:scsi::attach:/dev/rscsi/c6t5d0
Specifying Network Devices
To associate a guest virtual network device with a virtual network switch (vswitch), use the
syntax described below. (Before you can associate the virtual network device to a virtual switch,
you must create the vswitch using the hpvmnet command.)
The format of the rsrc parameter for network devices is:
network:adaptertype:bus,device,mac-addr:vswitch:vswitch-name:portid:portnumber
If you omit any portion of the network resource specification, you must enter the colon character
(:) as a field delimiter.
The guest virtual network information consists of the following fields, separated by colons:
• network
• adaptertype (virtual device adapter type): lan , avio_lan
• :bus,device,mac-addr (virtual network device hardware address) (optional)
The virtual network device hardware address consists of three fields, separated by commas:
— bus (the virtual network device PCI bus number)
— device (the virtual network device PCI slot number)
— mac-addr (the virtual network device MAC address, in either of the following formats:
0xaabbcc001122 or aa-bb-cc-00-11-22)
The MAC address that you enter will be checked to make sure it is unique, because the
address cannot conflict with any of the VM Host's physical network adapter MAC
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