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

The following list describes enhancements to Integrity VM for this release:
• Guests can run any of the following operating systems:
— HP-UX 11i v2 (May 2005 [0505] or later), including HP-UX 11i v2 0712
— HP-UX 11i v3
— Windows 2003 (Enterprise or Datacenter edition) SP1 and SP2
— Red Hat Linux Enterprise Edition Advanced Server Release 4 update 4 and update 5
— SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) for HP Integrity servers SLES 10 update 1.
• Integrity VM now includes the AVIO feature, which improves the performance of both
storage and network access for virtual machines. AVIO is supported on HP-UX 11i v2 host
and guests. This feature includes:
— Changes to the hpvmnet command. The changes include displaying the adapter type
for each port defined on the vswitch and getting port specific statistics.
— Changes to the hpvmresources and hpvmstatus manpages to include the new AVIO adapter
names for guest creation: avio_lan and avio_stor.
— Changes to the hpvmcollect command to add values for AVIO LANs and storage.
— Changes to the hpvmcreate, hpvmclone, and hpvmmodify commands to add the
designation for an AVIO network adapter and an AVIO storage adapter on a guest.
The network adapter designator is avio_lan, and the storage adapter designator is
avio_stor. For more information, see Section 1.3 (page 18).
• Hierarchy checking is now provided in Integrity VM.
The hpvmdevmgmt command has been changed to provide hierarchy checking by adding
a host-file-system directory to the device database as a restricted device. All files, devices,
and subdirectories under a restricted directory are also restricted. A directory may not be
restricted if a file, device or subdirectory is already in use by a guest.
• New public APIs are defined in hpvm_api_public.h for host and guests. The following
APIs have been added to Integrity VM:
— hpvm_api_server_check — Checks if running on an Integrity VM server system.
— hpvm_api_virtmach_check — Checks if running on an Integrity VM virtual machine.
— hpvm_api_version_get_machine — Gets the version string of an Integrity VM
server or virtual machine.
— hpvm_api_my_uuid_get_machine — Gets the uuid for this running Integrity VM
server or virtual machine.
— hpvm_api_server_uuid_get — Gets the uuid for the Integrity VM server of the
virtual machine running this API.
— hpvm_api_server_hostname_get — Gets the host name for the Integrity VM
server of the virtual machine running this API.
• The EFI direct tape boot functionality has been added to Integrity VM. If you use the Ignite
make_tape_recovery utility on the HP-UX guest to make a backup tape of that guest system,
you can use the backup tape to boot from EFI to perform the restore and reinstallation from
the backup tape.
• The hpvminfo command has been changed to display the information returned by the
supported public interfaces defined in hpvm_api_public.h. For example, use the command
as follows when running on a VM host:
# hpvminfo -S
HPVM Server information
VERSION: HPVM A.03.50 clearcase opt Wed Sep 19 2007 12h20m34s EDT
MY UUID: 58d03fSd-79ed-11d9-b720-17c097e9e0d0
Simarly, use the command as follows when running on a guest:
# hpvminfo -S
HPVM Guest information
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