HP Integrity Virtual Machines Installation, Configuration, and Administration

3 Creating Virtual Machines
After you install Integrity VM, you can create guests and virtual resources for the guests to use.
This chapter includes the following sections:
• Section 3.1: “Specifying Virtual Machine Characteristics” (page 27)
• Section 3.2: “Using the hpvmcreate Command” (page 33)
• Section 3.3: “Starting Virtual Machines” (page 35)
• Section 3.4: “Changing Virtual Machine Configurations” (page 36)
• Section 3.5: “Cloning Virtual Machines” (page 39)
• Section 3.6: “Stopping Virtual Machines” (page 42)
• Section 3.7: “Removing Virtual Machines” (page 43)
• Section 3.8: “Troubleshooting Virtual Machine Creation Problems” (page 43)
3.1 Specifying Virtual Machine Characteristics
When you create a new virtual machine, you specify its characteristics. Later, you can change
the virtual machine characteristics.
You can set the characteristics of a virtual machine using the following commands:
• hpvmcreate, which creates new virtual machines.
• hpvmclone, which creates new virtual machines based on existing virtual machines.
• hpvmmodify, which modifies existing virtual machines.
• hpvmmigrate, which moves virtual machines from one system to another.
All of these commands accept the same options for specifying virtual machine characteristics.
Table 3-1 describes each characteristic and command option.
Table 3-1 Characteristics of an Integrity Virtual Machine
Where DescribedCommand OptionDefault SettingVirtual Machine Characteristic
Section 3.1.1: “Virtual Machine
Name” (page 28)
-P vm-name
You must specify a name
when you create or modify
the virtual machine. You
cannot modify this
characteristic.
Virtual machine name
Section 3.1.2: “Guest
Operating System Type”
(page 28)
-O os_type
If you do not specify the
operating system type, it is
set to UNKNOWN.
Operating system type
Section 3.1.3: “Virtual CPUs”
(page 29)
-c number_vcpus
If you omit this option when
you create the virtual
machine, the default is one
vCPU.
Virtual CPUs (vCPUs)
Section 3.1.4: “Entitlement”
(page 29)
-e percent
-E cycles
If you omit this option when
you create the virtual
machine, the default is 10%.
CPU entitlement
Section 3.1.5: “Guest Memory
Allocation” (page 29)
-r amount
If you omit this option when
you create the virtual
machine, the default is 2 GB.
Memory
Section 3.1.6: “Virtual
Devices” (page 30)
-a rsrc
If you omit this option when
you create the virtual
machine, it has access to no
network and storage devices.
Virtual devices
Section 3.1.7: “Creating Virtual
Machine Labels” (page 33)
l vm_label
If you omit this option, the
virtual machine has no label.
Virtual machine label
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