HP Integrity Virtual Machines 4.2: Installation, Configuration, and Administration

RETURN VALUES

The command exits with one of the following values:

0: Successful completion.

1: One or more error conditions

occurred.

DIAGNOSTICS

The hpvmstart command displays error messages on stderr for any of the following conditions:

• An invalid option is specified.

• The vm-name or vm-number does not exist, cannot be accessed, is not a virtual machine,

or is corrupt.

• The virtual machine is in a state other than off and cannot be started. Use the hpvmstop

command to stop the virtual machine.

• The virtual machine cannot boot at this time because of detected resource complaints.

• The hpvmstart command and the Integrity VM software are at different version levels.

EXAMPLES

Start the virtual machine called myguest:

# hpvmstart -P myguest

The following are sample warning messages returned when hpvmstart is executed with various

configuration problems on guest myguest:

Warning 1: Guest needs more vcpus than server supports.

Warning 2: Insufficient free memory for guest.

Warning 3: Insufficient swap resource for guest.

Warning 4: Insufficient cpu resource for guest.

Warning 5 on item /dev/rdisk/disk0: Device file '/dev/rdisk/disk0' in use by another guest.

Warning 6 on item /dev/vg00/rswap: Device file '/dev/vg00/rswap' in use by server.

Warning 7 on item /dev/rdisk/disk3 backing device does not exist.

Warning 8 on item /dev/rdisk/disk4: Device file '/dev/rdisk/disk4:' in use by another guest.

Warning 9 on item hostnet: MAC address in use for switch hostnet.

Warning 10 on item offnet: Vswitch offnet is not active.

Warning 11 on item badnet: 'badnet' backing device does not exist.

These problems will prevent HPVM guest myguest from booting.

AUTHORS

The hpvmstart command was developed by HP.