HP Integrity Virtual Machines Installation, Configuration, and Administration Version A.03.50
3.2 Using the hpvmcreate Command...................................................................................................38
3.2.1 Example of Virtual Machine Creation.....................................................................................39
3.3 Starting Virtual Machines................................................................................................................40
3.4 Changing Virtual Machine Configurations.....................................................................................41
3.5 Cloning Virtual Machines...............................................................................................................44
3.6 Stopping Virtual Machines..............................................................................................................47
3.7 Removing Virtual Machines............................................................................................................48
3.8 Troubleshooting Virtual Machine Creation Problems....................................................................48
3.8.1 Configuration Error on Starting the Virtual Machine.............................................................49
4 Creating HP-UX Guests................................................................................................51
4.1 Installing the HP-UX Guest Operating System...............................................................................51
4.2 Installing HP-UX Guest Management Software.............................................................................54
4.3 Troubleshooting HP-UX Guest Creation.........................................................................................54
4.3.1 The guest hangs in the EFI shell..............................................................................................54
5 Creating Windows Guests..........................................................................................55
5.1 Windows Guest Requirements........................................................................................................55
5.2 Installing Windows Guests.............................................................................................................55
5.2.1 Installing from HP Reinstall (OPK) Media.............................................................................57
5.2.2 Installing from Windows Media.............................................................................................60
5.3 Managing Windows Guests............................................................................................................64
5.4 Installing Integrity VM Windows Guest Management Software...................................................66
5.5 Troubleshooting Windows Guest Installation................................................................................66
5.5.1 Remote desktop unable to connect.........................................................................................67
6 Creating Linux Guests..................................................................................................69
6.1 Installing Linux Guests...................................................................................................................69
6.1.1 Preparing to Install Linux Guests...........................................................................................69
6.1.2 Using this Procedure...............................................................................................................69
6.1.3 Linux Guest Installation Media...............................................................................................70
6.2 Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux Guests from ISO Images.......................................................70
6.3 Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux Guests from a Boot Disk and Network Server.....................73
6.4 Installing SUSE Linux Guests from ISO Images.............................................................................76
6.5 Installing Integrity VM Linux Guest Management Software.........................................................78
6.6 Managing Linux Guests..................................................................................................................79
7 Creating Virtual Storage Devices...............................................................................81
7.1 Introduction to Integrity VM Storage.............................................................................................81
7.1.1 Integrity VM Storage Goals.....................................................................................................81
7.1.1.1 Storage Utilization...........................................................................................................81
7.1.1.2 Storage Availability.........................................................................................................81
7.1.1.3 Storage Performance.......................................................................................................81
7.1.1.4 Storage Security...............................................................................................................82
7.1.1.5 Storage Configurability...................................................................................................82
7.1.2 Integrity VM Storage Architectures........................................................................................82
7.1.2.1 Shared I/O........................................................................................................................82
7.1.2.2 Attached I/O....................................................................................................................83
7.1.3 Integrity VM Storage Implementations..................................................................................83
7.1.3.1 Integrity VM Storage Adapters.......................................................................................83
7.1.3.2 Integrity VM Storage Devices.........................................................................................83
7.1.3.2.1 Virtual Devices........................................................................................................83
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