Using Ignite-UX with Integrity VM

Installing Integrity VM guest software
The HPVM-Guest bundle should be considered when creating an Integrity VM golden system. This bundle tunes the HP-UX
operating system for operation on a VM and also includes commands for collecting status and state of a VM as well as
managing it. The dynamic memory control device driver is also included in this bundle and care must be taken to make sure
golden images have this device driver configured correctly when the bundle is installed on the golden system.
The HPVM-Guest bundle for HPUX 11iv2 may be obtained from the Integrity VM host in the form of a SD-UX distribution
tape file:
/opt/hpvm/guest-images/hpux/11iv2/hpvm_guest_depot.11iv2.sd
The bundle for 11iv3 is contained in a SD-UX distribution tape file with analogous path and filename.
This SD distribution tape file contains the HPVM-Guest software bundle. The file may be moved directly to the VM so that
the bundle can be installed directly from that file with swinstall.
Alternatively, the file may be used to swcopy the HPVM-Guest bundle to a directory depot on a system from which the
software can be installed in a more typical fashion with swinstall. Use the command swcopy to copy it to the depot:
# swcopy -s /opt/hpvm/guest-images/hpux/hpvm_guest_depot.sd \
\* @ <host>:/<depot path>/
The HPVM-Guest bundle is a good candidate for consolidating into one depot for a single installation with other software
because it requires a reboot during installation.
The remaining steps – making the operating system archive and configuring the Ignite-UX server to recognize the golden
image – are as described in the Ignite-UX product documentation with one important addition. When configuring the Ignite-
UX server to recognize the golden image, care must be taken to modify the associated Ignite configuration file so that the
HPVM-Guest bundle’s device drivers are configured correctly. The details of these steps are provided for convenience in
Appendix A – Creating and Configuring a Golden Image for Network Installation.
Golden images of systems with the HPVM-Guest bundle installed must explicitly
configure the dynamic memory device driver
If your golden system has the HPVM-Guest bundle installed, then be sure the
dynamic memory device driver is configured correctly. To achieve this, add the
line
set_kernel += “module hpvmdynmem loaded”
after the init sw_sel stanza in the golden image’s configuration file.
Installing with the new configuration
You may now install the new VM configuration using Ignite-UX as described in the section Installing HPUX on the VM with
Ignite-UX above. From the HP-UX installation user interface (
Figure 5), continue to the Select an overall system configuration window (Figure 6). With the cursor in the Configurations:
field, press enter and you will see the custom VM configuration listed as a selection.
You may receive an error at this point indicating that the golden image (for example, B.11.23_VM_archive.gz) was not
found. This is typically the result of having the file in a file system that is not being exported to NFS clients. Make sure the
appropriate file system on the Ignite-UX server is exported, then restart the installation sequence.