HP Integrity Virtual Machines 4.3: Installation, Configuration, Administration

NOTE: If neither -g nor -h are specified, a hard stop is performed.
The -h and -g options are mutually exclusive.
-F
Specifies the force option. Omits the confirmation dialog before resetting the
virtual machine. This option is intended for use by scripts and other
noninteractive applications.
The -F option is deprecated in Integrity Virtual Machines commands.
-q
Makes certain scripted operations less verbose (quiet mode).
-Q
Quietly performs the command. The default is to prompt for confirmation
of the command before performing it.
NOTE: When stopping a guest that is running a heavy I/O load, the hpvmstop command can
exhaust its timeout allotted for the stop and exit. When this happens, the SIGKILL has been sent
to the running hpvmapp process and will be received by that process when pending I/Os complete.
The SIGKILL then terminates the guest.
This is expected behavior for an I/O intensive process receiving a SIGKILL. This behavior is not
specific to Integrity VM, but is how the signal-delivery mechanism works in the HP-UX operating
system.
RETURN VALUES
The hpvmstop command exits with one of the following values:
0: Successful completion.
1: One or more error conditions
occurred.
DIAGNOSTICS
The hpvmstop command displays error messages on stderr for any of the following conditions:
• An invalid option is specified.
• An invalid value is specified for an option.
• The vm-name or vm-number does not exist, cannot be accessed, is not a virtual machine,
or is corrupt.
• A value was omitted for an argument that requires one, or a value was supplied for an
argument that does not take one.
• The hpvmstop command and Integrity VM software are at different revision levels.
• The specified guest is a distributed guest.
EXAMPLES
Perform a graceful shutdown of the virtual machine called host1:
# hpvmstop -P host1 -g
OBSOLESCENCE
The -F option is deprecated in Integrity Virtual Machines commands. This flag might be removed
in a future release of Integrity Virtual Machines. HP recommends use of the command with the
-s option, then resolving any errors or warnings that result before executing the command
without the -s option and without the -F option.
AUTHORS
The hpvmstop command was developed by the HP.
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