HP Integrity Virtual Machines Installation, Configuration, and Administration

Table of Contents
About This Document.......................................................................................................11
1 Intended Audience.............................................................................................................................11
2 New and Changed Information in This Edition................................................................................11
3 Typographic Conventions..................................................................................................................11
4 Product Naming Conventions...........................................................................................................11
5 Document Organization.....................................................................................................................12
6 Related Information...........................................................................................................................12
7 Publishing History.............................................................................................................................13
8 HP Encourages Your Comments........................................................................................................13
1 Introduction...................................................................................................................15
1.1 About HP Integrity Virtual Machines.............................................................................................15
1.2 Running Applications in the Integrity VM Environment...............................................................16
1.3 Related Products..............................................................................................................................17
1.4 Using the Integrity VM Documentation.........................................................................................18
1.4.1 Integrity VM Manpages..........................................................................................................18
1.4.2 Help Files.................................................................................................................................19
1.5 Using This Manual..........................................................................................................................19
2 Installing Integrity VM..................................................................................................21
2.1 Installation Requirements...............................................................................................................21
2.1.1 VM Host System Requirements..............................................................................................21
2.1.2 Bundle Names.........................................................................................................................22
2.1.3 Integrity VM Requires HP WBEM Services on the VM Host.................................................22
2.2 Installation Procedure.....................................................................................................................23
2.3 Upgrading from Earlier Versions of Integrity VM..........................................................................24
2.4 Verifying the Installation of Integrity VM.......................................................................................24
2.5 Removing Integrity VM..................................................................................................................24
2.6 Reserving VM Host Devices............................................................................................................25
2.7 Troubleshooting Installation Problems...........................................................................................25
2.7.1 Error messages during installation.........................................................................................25
3 Creating Virtual Machines..........................................................................................27
3.1 Specifying Virtual Machine Characteristics....................................................................................27
3.1.1 Virtual Machine Name............................................................................................................28
3.1.2 Guest Operating System Type.................................................................................................28
3.1.3 Virtual CPUs............................................................................................................................29
3.1.4 Entitlement..............................................................................................................................29
3.1.5 Guest Memory Allocation.......................................................................................................29
3.1.6 Virtual Devices........................................................................................................................30
3.1.6.1 Creating Virtual Network Devices..................................................................................30
3.1.6.2 Creating Virtual Storage Devices....................................................................................31
3.1.7 Creating Virtual Machine Labels............................................................................................33
3.1.8 Specifying the Virtual Machine Boot Attribute.......................................................................33
3.1.9 Specifying Dynamic Memory Parameters..............................................................................33
3.2 Using the hpvmcreate Command...................................................................................................33
3.2.1 Example of Virtual Machine Creation.....................................................................................34
3.3 Starting Virtual Machines................................................................................................................35
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