HP-UX HB v13.00 Ch-18 - HPVM

HP-UX Handbook – Rev 13.00 Page 17 (of 49)
Chapter 18 Integrity Virtual Machines (HPVM)
October 29, 2013
 HPVM-Guest – A combination of tools for tuning the HP-UX operating system for a
VM and two useful commands for collecting status and state of a VM – hpvminfo
and hpvmcollect.
 VMProvider – The Integrity VM WBEM provider which is used by HP’s Virtual
Server Environment (VSE) tools such as Virtualization Manager (vman) and the
Integrity VM graphical user interface (vmmgr). The VMProvider requires either the
VMGuestLib or HPVM-Guest.
Both VMGuestLib and VMProvider will be provided with HP-UX OEs in early 2006. So, if you
are using a later HP-UX OE for your golden system configuration, you need not explicitly install
these two bundles. Otherwise, these bundles will be available with the Integrity VM installation
media and can be copied (with swcopy) or installed directly (with swinstall) from that media.
The HPVM-Guest bundle may be obtained from the Integrity VM host in the form of a SD-UX
distribution tape file: /opt/hpvm/guest-images/hpux/hpvm_guest_depot.sd. This SD
distribution tape file contains the HPVM-Guest and VMGuestLib software bundles. 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/11iv3/hpvm_guest_depot.11iv3.sd \
\* @ <host>:/<depot path>/
c) Make the operating system archive (i.e., the golden image).
Once the golden system is configured the way you want it, either install the Ignite-UX software
or copy the file /opt/ignite/data/scripts/make_sys_image to /tmp on the golden system. If
you’ve copied the above file, change the permissions of /tmp/make_sys_image to be
executable. On the Ignite-UX server make sure there is sufficient space in the target file system
to hold the golden image archive that will be created. By default, the directory is /var/tmp, but
you may want to store the golden image on another file system because /var is typically more
difficult to extend than other file systems.
On the golden system, run:
# /tmp/make_sys_image -s <Ignite-UX server IP address> \
–d /<path to target directory> -n <archive file name>
For example, executing:
# /tmp/make_sys_image -s vmhost \