HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM V6.3 Administrator Guide

Table 20 Options to the hpvmcreate command
DescriptionOption
VM name. You must specify a name when you create or modify the VM. You
cannot modify this characteristic.
-P vm-name
Specifies the type and version of the operating system. If you do not specify
the operating system type, it is set to UNKNOWN.
The version is specific to the operating system type and can consist of up to
255 alphanumeric characters, including A-Z, a-z, 0–9, the dash (—), the
underscore (_), and the period (.).
-O os_type[:version]
Virtual CPUs (vCPUs) allocated. If you do not specify this attribute when you
create the VM, the default is one vCPU.
-c number_vcpus[:min[:max]]
CPU entitlement allocated. If you do not specify this attribute when you create
the VM, the default entitlement is 10% and the max_percent is 100%.
-e percent[:max_percent]-E
cycles[:max_cycles]
Memory allocated. If you do not specify this attribute when you create the
VM, the default is 2 GB.
-r amount
Virtual devices created. If you do not specify this attribute when you create
the VM, the VM will not have access to network and storage devices.
-a rsrc
The label (an optional text string associated with the VM) for the VM.-l vm_label
The startup behavior of the VM (auto or manual).-B start_attribute
Specifies values for dynamic memory setting associated with the guest,
including:
• dynamic_memory_control
• ram_dyn_type
• ram_dyn_min
• ram_dyn_max
• ram_dyn_target_start
• ram_dyn_entitlement=amount
• amr_enable={0|1}
• amr_chunk_size=amount
• sched_preference
• graceful_stop_timeout
For more information about dynamic memory, see Section 13.14.2 (page 235).
Also specifies values for OVMM:
• migrate_copy_phase_timeout={number of seconds}
• migrate_frozen_phase_timeout={number of seconds}
• migrate_init_phase_timeout={number of seconds}
• migrate_io_quiesce_phase_timeout={number of seconds}
• online_migration={enabled | disabled}
• tunables={name=value[,name=value,...]}
For information about OVMM, see Chapter 12 (page 195).
Specifies arbitrary VM or vPar attributes that control their behavior:
• vm_type={vpar|shared}
• resources_reserved={0|1}
• active_config={0|1}
-x keyword=parameter
9.2 Using the hpvmcreate command 139