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

Starting event polling thread
Starting thread initialization
Daemonizing....
hpvmstart: Successful start initiation of guest 'compass1'
The virtual machine compass1 is started. Now the guest operating system must be installed.
For information about creating HP-UX guests, see Chapter 4 (page 51). For information about
creating Windows guests, see Chapter 5 (page 55).
3.5 Cloning Virtual Machines
Once you have created a guest, you can quickly and easily create additional guests by using the
hpvmclone command. Like the hpvmcreate, hpvmmigrate, and hpvmmodify commands,
the hpvmclone command accepts the command options listed in Table 3-1 (page 31) for
specifying virtual devices, network interfaces, and other virtual machine characteristics. This
allows you to create new guests with similar characteristics but different virtual resources.
Table 3-6 describes the options you can use with the hpvmclone command.
Table 3-6 Options to the hpvmclone Command
DescriptionOption
Specifies the name of the existing virtual machine to be cloned. You must
specify either the -P option or the -p option.
-P vm-name
Specifies the number of the existing virtual machine to be cloned. You must
specify either the -P option or the -p option.
-p vm-number
Specifies the name of the new virtual machine (the clone). The clone-vm-name
can be up to 256 alphanumeric characters. The same virtual machine name
cannot already exist on the same VM Host system.
-N clone-vm-name
Specifies the virtual machine's CPU entitlement in CPU cycles. To specify the
percentage of CPU power, enter the following option:
-e percent
To specify the clock cycles, enter one of the following options:
-E cyclesM (for megahertz)
-E cyclesG (for gigahertz)
-e percent | -E cycles
Specifies a descriptive label for this virtual machine. The label can contain up
to 256 alphanumeric characters, including A-Z, a-z, 0-9, the dash (-), the
underscore character (_), and the period (.). To include spaces, the label must
be quoted (" ").
-l vm_label
Specifies the startup behavior of the virtual machine. For start_attr, enter
one of the following keywords:
auto: Automatically starts the virtual machine when the VM Host is started
(autoboot).
manual: The virtual machine is not started automatically. Use the hpvmstart
command to start the virtual machine manually.
-B start_attr
Specifies the type and version of the operating system running on the virtual
machine. For the os_type parameter, you can specify one of the following
(case-insensitive) values:
hpux
windows
linux
-O os_type[:version]
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