HP Integrity Virtual Machines Release Notes

• To support various types of guest operating systems, the -O option to the hpvmcreate,
hpvmclone, and hpvmmodify commands accepts the following keywords:
— HPUX
— WINDOWS
— LINUX
The keyword is not case-sensitive.
• Some Integrity VM commands now use the new -x option, which accepts name and value
pairs (for example, name=value) to set guest configuration options. The commands that
use the new -x option are:
— hpvmcreate (runs on VM Host)
— hpvmclone (runs on VM Host)
— hpvmmodify (runs on VM Host)
— hpvmmgmt (runs on guest)
• The hpvmcreate, hpvmclone, and hpvmmodify commands allow you specify the virtual
machine MAC address and serial number. To specify this information, include the —x option
with the following keywords:
Table 1-1 Option Keywords for Virtual Machine MAC Address and Serial Number
Specifies the MAC address of the virtual machine.
-x mac_address={new|same}
Specifies the serial number of the virtual machine.
-x serial_number={new|same}
• The new hpvmmgmt command is used on the Integrity VM guest to view and change dynamic
memory settings.
• The hpvmstatus command has been enhanced to show information about dynamic memory
settings. The dynamic memory output is only displayed if the guest is configured to use
dynamic memory. When configured as such, if the guest is not running or is running without
having a dynamic memory driver installed on the guest, then only configuration values are
displayed. Otherwise, on a running guest with dynamic memory configured and the dynamic
memory driver installed, the hpvmstatus command displays actual values.
• The hpvmclone command allows you to use the —b option to specify the boot disk for the
new virtual machine.
The following example shows how to use the hpvmclone command to create a new Linux
guest named linux2 based on the existing guest named linux1. The boot disk for the
guest named linux2 is specified.
# hpvmclone -P linux1 -N linux2 -b disk:scsi:0,0,0:disk:
• The hpvmcollect command allows you to use the —g option to clean up a guest debug
memory dump directory after a memory dump has been collected in the hpvmcollect
archive.
• The hpvmstop command allows you stop all the running guests at the same time with the
new —a option.
• The hpvmnet command allows you to change the virtual switch characteristics (using the
—C option) and to clone the virtual switch (using the —N option).
• The -Q option has been added to hpvmstart, hpvmstop, and hpvmremove commands.
The -Q option suppresses the confirmation dialog. The command function is performed
without requiring user input.
• The hpvmmigrate command is enhanced to accept options to specify guest characteristics,
as with the hpvmcreate, hpvmclone, and hpvmmodify commands. Specifically, the
following options have been added to the hpvmmigrate command synopsis:
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