HP-UX Virtual Partitions Release Notes (A.03.04)

vPars Release Notes
What’s New in this March 2007 Update
Chapter 14
What’s New in this March 2007 Update
This section describes what’s new in this version of vPars. (For a comparison on existing vPars
version, see the vPars Version Comparisons tables in the document HP-UX Virtual Partitions
Administrator’s Guide.)
• vPars A.03.04 supports the sx2000 chipsets that are available on the supported PA-RISC
servers.
CAUTION vPars Console Assignment on sx2000-based Servers.
The console UART for sx2000-based servers is no longer on a PCI card, and
the system console is memory mapped and moved to PDH. Hence, there is
no LBA component for the console to be assigned to a virtual partition.
Thus, for sx2000-based servers, you need to assign the console by the
hardware path for the first virtual partition that you create by performing
the following:
1. Find out the console hardware path:
# ioscan -kfnC tty
Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description
=============================================================
tty 0 0/8/1 asio0 CLAIMED INTERFACE Built-in RS232C
/dev/diag/mux0 /dev/mux0 /dev/tty0p0
The console hardware path on this system is 0/8/1.
2. Assign the console hardware path to the first virtual partition being
created:
# vparcreate -p winona1 -a io:0/8/1 ...
For more information on the first virtual partition requirement, see
Chapter 3 in the HP-UX Virtual Partitions Administrator’s Guide.