HP Integrity Virtual Machines Release Notes

Table of Contents
About This Document.........................................................................................................9
1 Intended Audience...............................................................................................................................9
2 New and Changed Information in This Edition..................................................................................9
3 Typographic Conventions....................................................................................................................9
4 Document Organization......................................................................................................................9
5 Related Information...........................................................................................................................10
6 Publishing History.............................................................................................................................10
7 HP Encourages Your Comments........................................................................................................10
1 Introduction...................................................................................................................13
1.1 New Features and Enhancements in This Version of Integrity VM...............................................13
1.2 Using Linux Guests.........................................................................................................................14
1.3 Dynamic Memory............................................................................................................................14
1.4 Creating Virtual Machine Administrator and Operator Accounts.................................................14
1.5 Using P2V Workload Migration......................................................................................................14
1.6 Integrity VM Command Changes...................................................................................................14
1.7 Guest Management Software..........................................................................................................16
2 Installation Notes.........................................................................................................17
2.1 Installing Integrity VM....................................................................................................................17
2.1.1 Integrity VM Includes the Foundation Operating Environment............................................17
2.1.2 Upgrade HP WBEM Services..................................................................................................17
2.1.3 Installing the hpvmmigrate Command...................................................................................17
2.1.4 Installing VM Provider............................................................................................................17
2.1.5 Ugrade the VM Host to 0609 or Later.....................................................................................18
2.1.6 HP-UX Patches Required in the VM Host...............................................................................18
2.1.7 Patches Required in the HP-UX Guest....................................................................................19
2.1.8 Patches Required for Ignite/UX Servers..................................................................................20
2.1.9 Patches Required for Windows Guests...................................................................................20
2.2 Upgrading from Earlier Versions of Integrity VM..........................................................................21
2.3 Installing the HP Integrity Virtual Machines Product Over the Evaluation Software...................22
2.4 Do Not Install Applications on the VM Host System.....................................................................22
2.5 Do Not Install Integrity VM on a Virtual Partition.........................................................................23
2.6 Do Not Install Windows as Alternate Boot on a VM Host System.................................................23
3 Creating Virtual Machines..........................................................................................25
3.1 Default Guest Settings for HP-UX, Windows, and Linux...............................................................25
3.2 Autoboot Causes Virtual Machines to Start....................................................................................25
3.3 Reserving Swap Space for Guests...................................................................................................25
3.4 Do Not Create Golden Images of the VM Host for Guest Installation...........................................26
4 Installing Guests...........................................................................................................27
4.1 Windows Guests..............................................................................................................................27
4.1.1 Removing Media During Installation Hangs Guest...............................................................27
4.1.2 HP Insight Manager Automatic Server Recovery Does Not Work ........................................27
4.1.3 Running Windows Guests on a Dual Core Intel Itanium2 Processor (Montecito) System....27
4.1.4 Installing Windows with Virtual NullDVD is Not Recommended........................................27
4.1.5 Enabling MP Services on Windows Guest Logs telnetd Errors..............................................28
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