HP vPars and Integrity Virtual Machines V6.1 Administrator Guide

Table 7 Requirements for installing Integrity VM V6.1 (continued)
DescriptionResource
For information about memory overhead estimation, see “VSP memory overhead
estimation” (page 31).
Memory
A configured and operational network. To allow guests network access, the VSP must
have at least one functioning network interface card (NIC). For more information about
configuring network devices for virtual machines, see Chapter 10 (page 143).
Network configuration
NOTE: The VSP overhead is valid for VSPs with base_pagesize=64.
3.1.4 Installing Integrity VM V6.1
This section describes the installation procedure to use if you have never installed Integrity VM on
your system. If you are updating your HP-UX 11i v2 operating system to HP-UX 11i v3, and
subsequently want to update Integrity VM V3.5 to Integrity VM 6.1, see Section 4.1 (page 43). If
you are updating Integrity VM V4.0 or later to Integrity VM V6.1, see Section 4.2.
Once you have read the product release notes and verified that you have met the system
requirements, install the vPars and Integrity VM software as described in this section.
NOTE: Installing the vPars and Integrity VM software requires the system to reboot. Therefore,
the swinstall command line installation includes the autoreboot=true parameter.
To install the HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM software, follow these steps:
1. If you have the installation media, mount it.
If you are installing from the network, identify the VSP and path name that correspond to the
software distribution depot that contains the BB068AA and VirtualBase bundles (for example,
my.server.foo.com:/depot/path).
2. Use the swinstall command to install Integrity VM and specify the path to the depot. For
example, the following command installs Integrity VM:
# swinstall -x autoreboot=true -s my.server.foo.com:/depot/path BB068AA VirtualBase
If you are using the GUI (swinstall -i), perform the following steps:
a. Enter the following commands:
# export DISPLAY=your display variable
# swinstall
b. Select the vPars and Integrity VM V6.1 bundle, BB068AA, and the VirtualBase bundle
from the list presented by the GUI.
The VSP and guest configuration files are stored at /var/opt/hpvm. The new configuration
files are not compatible with those of previous versions of Integrity VM. Therefore, if you are
upgrading to the current version, the guest configuration files (except the /ISO-Images/
directory) are saved to the /var/opt/hpvm/backups directory. If you revert to the older
version of Integrity VM, you can use the backup configuration files to restore your VSP and
guest configurations.
3. Unmount and remove any installation media. The VSP system automatically reboots, if
necessary.
4. Once the Integrity VM software is installed and running, the VSP is available. Enter the following
command to get information about the status of the guests:
# hpvmstatus
hpvmstatus: No guest information is available.
hpvmstatus: Unable to continue.
The installation is now complete, with the following results:
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