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

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6.1.3 Linux Guest Installation Media
You can install Linux guests using any one of the following types of installation media:
• Images (*.iso files) of the Red Hat Installation DVDs (recommended) (described in
Section 6.2 (page 70)).
• Boot disk containing the boot program and a network server containing the packages
(described in Section 6.3 (page 73)).
The procedures for installing from each type of media are described in the following sections.
6.2 Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux Guests from ISO Images
1. On the VM Host system, load the *.iso files of Red Hat Advanced Server 4 Update 4 (or
Update 5) into the following directory:
/var/opt/hpvm/ISO-images/linux/
Use the following file names:
• RHEL4-U4-ia64-AS-disc1.iso
• RHEL4-U4-ia64-AS-disc2.iso
• RHEL4-U4-ia64-AS-disc3.iso
• RHEL4-U4-ia64-AS-disc4.iso
• RHEL4-U4-ia64-AS-disc5.iso
For security reasons, you should mark the ISO images as read-only.
2. Create a virtual machine with one disk and five DVD devices, one for each of the ISO files.
Specify the operating system type as LINUX, as well as one network virtual switch. For
example:
# hpvmcreate -P linux1 -B manual -O LINUX -c 1 -r 2G \
-a dvd:scsi::file:/var/opt/hpvm/ISO-images/linux/RHEL4-U4-ia64-AS-disc1.iso \
-a dvd:scsi::file:/var/opt/hpvm/ISO-images/linux/RHEL4-U4-ia64-AS-disc2.iso \
-a dvd:scsi::file:/var/opt/hpvm/ISO-images/linux/RHEL4-U4-ia64-AS-disc3.iso \
-a dvd:scsi::file:/var/opt/hpvm/ISO-images/linux/RHEL4-U4-ia64-AS-disc4.iso \
-a dvd:scsi::file:/var/opt/hpvm/ISO-images/linux/RHEL4-U4-ia64-AS-disc5.iso \
-a disk:scsi::lv:/dev/vg00/rguest1 \
-a network:lan::vswitch:switch1
If you create all the virtual DVDs on the guest, you do not have to enter multiple EJ and IN
commands during the installation procedure.
3. On the VM Host system, start the virtual machine:
# hpvmstart -P linux1
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Opening minor device and creating guest machine container
Creation of VM, minor device 1
Allocating guest memory: 2048MB
allocating low RAM (0-80000000, 2048MB)
/opt/hpvm/lbin/hpvmapp (/var/opt/hpvm/uuids
/eaccd6e4-b004-11db-bd1f-00306ef4693e/vmm_config.next):
Allocated 2147483648 bytes at 0x6000000100000000
allocating firmware RAM (ffaa0000-ffab5000, 84KB)
70 Creating Linux Guests