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

1. On the VM Host system, load the *.iso files of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) for HP
Integrity servers SLES 10 update 1 into the following directory:
/var/opt/hpvm/ISO-images/linux/
Use the following file names or any file names you prefer:
• SLES-U1-ia64-AS-disc1.iso
• SLES-U1-ia64-AS-disc2.iso
For security reasons, mark the ISO images as read-only.
2. Create a virtual machine with one disk and one DVD device for the ISO files, as well as one
network virtual switch. Specify the operating system type as LINUX. For example:
# hpvmcreate -P linux -B manual -O LINUX -c 1 -r 2G \
-a disk:scsi::lv:/dev/vg01/sles10_boot_volume \
-a disk:scsi::file:/var/opt/hpvm/ISO-images/linux/SLES10-SP1-DVD-ia64-DVD1.iso \
-a network:lan::vswitch:switch1
If DVD2 is required during your installation, eject (EJ) DVD1 and insert (IN) DVD2 from
the guest management console.
3. On the VM Host system, start the virtual machine:
# hpvmstart -P linux1
(C) Copyright 2000 - 2007 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
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)
/opt/hpvm/lbin/hpvmapp (/var/opt/hpvm/uuids
/eaccd6e4-b004-11db-bd1f-00306ef4693e/vmm_config.next):
Allocated 86016 bytes at 0x6000000180000000
Loading boot image
Image initial IP=102000 GP=62E000
Initialize guest memory mapping tables
Starting event polling thread
Starting thread initialization
Daemonizing....
hpvmstart: Successful start initiation of guest 'linux1'
Use the hpvmconsole command to connect to the guest.
4. Boot the guest.
There are two ways to boot the guest:
• From the EFI shell
• From the File menu
To boot from the EFI shell:
a. Go to the EFI shell. For example:
fs0 : Acpi(PNP0A03,0)/Pci(0|0)/Scsi(Pun0,Lun0)/HD(Part1,Sig5D1D1134-C809-11DB-9AEB-000000000000)
fs1 : Acpi(PNP0A03,0)/Pci(0|0)/Scsi(Pun0,Lun0)/HD(Part2,Sig5DB58D88-C809-11DB-9AEB-000000000000)
fs2 : Acpi(PNP0A03,0)/Pci(0|0)/Scsi(Pun1,Lun0)/CDROM(Entry0)
EFI lists devices with file systems detected as fs{n}. In the above example, fs0 and
fs1 are older file systems that are present on the disk. fs2 is the file system
corresponding to the bootable Linux ISO image/Virtual DVD, as can be recognized by
the CDROM against it.
b. Boot the first installation DVD, which is indicated in the device mapping table by
/CDROM by entering the following commands:
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