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

network:adaptertype:bus,device,mac-addr:vswitch:vswitch-name:portid:portnumber

If you omit any portion of the network resource specification, use the colon character (:) as a field

delimiter.

The guest virtual network information consists of the following fields, separated by colons:

• network

• adaptertype (virtual device adapter type): lan , avio_lan

• :bus,device,mac-addr (virtual network device hardware address) (optional)

The virtual network device hardware address consists of three fields, separated by commas:

— bus (the virtual network device PCI bus number)

— device (the virtual network device PCI slot number)

— mac-addr (the virtual network device MAC address, in either of the following formats:

0xaabbcc001122 or aa-bb-cc-00-11-22)

The MAC address that you enter is checked to verify that it is unique, because the

address cannot conflict with any of the VM Host's physical network adapter MAC

addresses, and to verify that the proper bits are set. You can specify either the bus and

device with the MAC address or the MAC address without the bus and device, or you

can omit the entire hardware address. If you do not specify the virtual network device

hardware address, or a portion of it, the missing information is generated automatically.

If you specify only a portion of the virtual network device hardware address (for

example, just the MAC address), include the commas (for example

,,aa-bb-cc-00-11-22).

The virtual switch information consists of the following fields, separated by a colon:

• vswitch

• vswitch-name (the name assigned to the virtual network switch)

• portnumber (the number of the port on the vswitch)

The following example associates a guest virtual network device with a vswitch:

network:avio_lan:0,1,02-02-03-04-05-06:vswitch:net1

• The guest virtual network device type is network.

• The virtual adapter type is avio_lan.

• The virtual PCI bus number is 0.

• The virtual PCI slot number is 1.

• The virtual MAC address is 02-02-03-04-05-06.

• The physical network device type is vswitch.

• The vswitch name is net1.

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The hpvmresources command was developed by HP.