Installing and Managing HP-UX Virtual Partitions (A.01.01)
How vPars Works
Boot Sequence
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However, in a computer with vPars, at the ISL prompt, the secondary
system loader hpux loads the vPars monitor /stand/vpmon:
ISL> hpux /stand/vpmon
The monitor loads the partition database (the default is /stand/vpdb)
and internally creates (but does not boot) each virtual partition
according to the resource assignments in the database.
Next, the vPars monitor runs in interactive mode (when no options to
/stand/vpmon are given) with a command line interface.
MON>
To boot a kernel in a virtual partition (that is, to launch a virtual
partition), use the monitor command vparload. For example, to launch
the virtual partition named szilva1:
MON> vparload -p szilva1
In this example, the vPars monitor would load the virtual partition
szilva1 and launch the kernel from the boot device speciļ¬ed for szilva1.
(The boot device is assigned when the virtual partition is created and is
recorded in the monitor database.)
HP-UX is now booted on the virtual partition szilva1.
Once a partition is running, you will be at the virtual console of a
partition. Subsequent virtual partitions can be booted using the vPars
command vparboot at the UNIX shell prompt of szilva1.