The Integrity VM commands have changed in the following ways:
The hpvmresources manpage, which describes the syntax for specifying storage and network devices when creating or modifying a guest, has been moved from the (1M) volume to the (5) volume.
The new p2vassist(1M) manpage describes how to use the physical-to-virtual assistant toolkit to migrate a workload from a discrete system (server or partition) to a virtual machine.
To support various types of guest operating systems, the -O option to the hpvmcreate, hpvmclone, and hpvmmodify commands accepts the following keywords:
HPUX
WINDOWS
LINUX
The keyword is not case-sensitive.
Some Integrity VM commands now use the new -x option, which accepts name and value pairs (for example, name=value) to set guest configuration options. The commands that use the new -x option are:
hpvmcreate (runs on VM Host)
hpvmclone (runs on VM Host)
hpvmmodify (runs on VM Host)
hpvmmgmt (runs on guest)
The hpvmcreate, hpvmclone, and hpvmmodify commands allow you specify the virtual machine MAC address and serial number. To specify this information, include the —x option with the following keywords:
Table 1-1 Option Keywords for Virtual Machine MAC Address and Serial Number
-x mac_address={new|same}
Specifies the MAC address of the virtual machine.
-x serial_number={new|same}
Specifies the serial number of the virtual machine.
The new hpvmmgmt command is used on the Integrity VM guest to view and change dynamic memory settings.
The hpvmstatus command has been enhanced to show information about dynamic memory settings. The dynamic memory output is only displayed if the guest is configured to use dynamic memory. When configured as such, if the guest is not running or is running without having a dynamic memory driver installed on the guest, then only configuration values are displayed. Otherwise, on a running guest with dynamic memory configured and the dynamic memory driver installed, the hpvmstatus command displays actual values.
The hpvmclone command allows you to use the —b option to specify the boot disk for the new virtual machine.
The following example shows how to use the hpvmclone command to create a new Linux guest named linux2 based on the existing guest named linux1. The boot disk for the guest named linux2 is specified.
The hpvmcollect command allows you to use the —g option to clean up a guest debug memory dump directory after a memory dump has been collected in the hpvmcollect archive.
The hpvmstop command allows you stop all the running guests at the same time with the new —a option.
The hpvmnet command allows you to change the virtual switch characteristics (using the —C option) and to clone the virtual switch (using the —N option).
The -Q option has been added to hpvmstart, hpvmstop, and hpvmremove commands. The -Q option suppresses the confirmation dialog. The command function is performed without requiring user input.
The hpvmmigrate command is enhanced to accept options to specify guest characteristics, as with the hpvmcreate, hpvmclone, and hpvmmodify commands. Specifically, the following options have been added to the hpvmmigrate command synopsis:
-N new_vm_name specifies the new name for the virtual machine being migrated.
-l vm_label specifies a descriptive label for the virtual machine.
-e percent specifies the percentage of CPU resources to which the guest's virtual CPUs are entitled.
-E cycles specifies the virtual machine's CPU entitlement in CPU cycles.
-m resource modifies the existing I/O resource for the virtual machine.
-C physically copies the storage device specified with the -m option to the target host during the migration process.
For more information, refer to hpvmmigrate(1M).
Commands that prompt for confirmation display the confirmation prompt in a consistent manner. The hpvmstart, hpvmcreate, hpvmclone, hpvmmodify, and hpvmnet commands present the same prompt with the same default. For example, the hpvmstop command displays the following confirmation prompt:
# hpvmstop -P guest1
hpvmstop: Stop the virtual machine 'guest1'? [n/y]:<Enter>
hpvmstop: Virtual machine was not stopped.
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