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

5 Creating Windows Guests
You can install HP Integrity Windows 2003 on your virtual machines. These Windows guests
can be managed like a Windows server running on an independent Integrity server or nPartition,
by either the VM Host administrator or the Windows system administrator. This chapter describes:
• Section 5.1: “Windows Guest Requirements” (page 55)
• Section 5.2: “Installing Windows Guests” (page 55)
• Section 5.3: “Managing Windows Guests” (page 64)
• Section 5.5: “Troubleshooting Windows Guest Installation” (page 66)
5.1 Windows Guest Requirements
To run Windows on a virtual machine, you must install the following on the virtual machine:
• HP Integrity Windows 2003 software media with Service Pack 1 or Service Pack 2. Make
sure you have the product key, which appears on the lower section of your Certificate of
Authenticity.
• Integrity VM Windows guest management software.
• Optional: For management from HP Integrity Virtual Machines Manager (VM Manager)
and the HP Virtual Server Environment (VSE), the provider utilities are available on the
Windows Smart Setup Media (SSM).
The following procedure assumes that HP Integrity Virtual Machines A.02.00 or later is installed
on the VM Host system.
To install the Windows operating system on the virtual machine, select a physical backing storage
unit to be used as the guest's boot disk. HP recommends using a whole disk of at least 34 GB.
Logical volumes and file backing stores do not perform as well as whole disks. To determine the
device file name, enter the following command:
# ioscan -funC disk
To prepare for the installation:
• If you are installing from the host's physical CD/DVD, find the physical CD/DVD in the
ioscan output. HP recommends that the virtual disk be cleared of data before you begin
the installation procedure.
• If you are installing from an ISO file on the host, determine the full path name to that file.
If you are using a file for the backing storage, use the hpvmdevmgmt utilitity with the -S
option to create the file. The utility automatically cleans the file when it is created
The installation procedure automatically repartitions the virtual disk.
5.2 Installing Windows Guests
To install the Windows guest operating system, follow these steps:
1. Create a Windows guest. In the following example, the virtual machine name (guest name)
is win1:
# hpvmcreate -P win1 -O windows -c 1 -r 2G \
-a disk:scsi::disk:/dev/rdsk/c3t2d0 \
-a dvd:scsi::disk:/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0 \
-a network:lan::vswitch:switch1
The hpvmcreate command creates the /var/opt/hpvm/guests/win1/ directory and
creates the guest configuration in that directory.
2. Boot the virtual machine to the EFI menu and take control of the virtual console by entering
the following command:
5.1 Windows Guest Requirements 55