topic Re: HPVM trial bundle in Operating System - HP-UX

HPVM trial bundle

Kapil Jha — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:02:13 GMT

Hello Gurus,
I have installed Trial bundle of HPVM (T2801AA)
.Now I am able to create a VM but not able to attach a dvd drive in that.
Its gettin attached but from EFI prompt m unable to see it.
all devices in EFI prompt are blk , none fs.

second I played a bit with one disk(made and remove vg,lv etc) and now when m trting to add it to any VM its saying device is used by server.
What to do??
Need ur help.
BR
Kapil+

Re: HPVM trial bundle

Torsten. — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:05:05 GMT

How did you assign the dvd drive?

hpvmstatus -v for the guest will show ...

is a media inserted?

Re: HPVM trial bundle

Tim Nelson — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:10:50 GMT

For DVDs:
must have DVD inserted when presenting this device, or present it as a null device then use in and ej commands from VM console.

Disk:
to make changes to a backingstore after it has been presented it must be un-presented and re-presented.

hpvmdevmgmt -l gdev will show you the backingstore info. Or hpvmstatus -P Vname

Re: HPVM trial bundle

Kapil Jha — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:42:50 GMT

Hey Thanks,
And what about the error
device file '/dev/rdsk/c2t1d0' is in use by server.
I am not able to add this disk to server.
Is it OK that we can create vm's by testbundles.
Thanks,
Kapil+

Re: HPVM trial bundle

Kapil Jha — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:05:15 GMT

None of the windows bootable CD and HPYX cd is not getting recognized on my system.
other CDs are getting mounted.
What can be the probable problem.
Need urgent help.
Kapil+

Re: HPVM trial bundle

Torsten. — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:12:16 GMT

Run

# hpvmstatus -P

and post result.

Re: HPVM trial bundle

Kapil Jha — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 06:52:02 GMT

i have deleted that guest (so wont be able to provide hpvmstatus -v) ...and creatd it several times....but disk was not recognizing in EFI prompt.
EVEN windows 2003 was saying device busy..
and HPUX cd saying unrecoznised file system.
Now dvd drive has some physical problem.
Can i use USB DVD drive with HPUX11.23 now.
BR.
Kapil+

Re: HPVM trial bundle

Torsten. — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 06:54:49 GMT

Why not using an ISO image as virtual DVD drive?

Re: HPVM trial bundle

Kapil Jha — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:05:15 GMT

how to create ISO image by mkisofs.
I do not have DVD rom working.
BR,
Kapil+

Re: HPVM trial bundle

Torsten. — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:08:09 GMT

I think you have a PC anywhere, right?

Re: HPVM trial bundle

Kapil Jha — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:13:20 GMT

Yes I have.....and its in network with server.
BR,
Kapil+

Re: HPVM trial bundle

Torsten. — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:16:33 GMT

So use your PC to create an ISO from the DVD and FTP it to the server.

There are so many tools available to create the ISO.

Re: HPVM trial bundle

Kapil Jha — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:20:14 GMT

Ok.
so After creating ISO i'll assign that ISO to VM guest by
-a dvd:scsi::file:pathname/File.ISO

Now after doing hpvmconsole from EFI prompt how woul;d I boot the system.
Will it come as fs0: or blk0: in EFI prompt.
Thanks,
Kapil+

Re: HPVM trial bundle

Torsten. — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:25:25 GMT

IMHO the best solution is to create a virtual null DVD and "insert" the ISO image into the drive via the vMPs "insert" command.

From manual:

"...
you can set up a Virtual NullDVD to a file system directory containing the
ISO files that the guest administrator wants to access. This resource statement would take the
following form:
dvd:scsi::null:/pathname
Where /pathname is the file system directory where the ISO files are located."

see chapter

7.2.2.3.5 Virtual FileDVDs

Re: HPVM trial bundle

Kapil Jha — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:23:26 GMT

I have given /win/server.iso as dvd:scsi
and one file disk as /VM/vm1 same as disk scsi.
Now whwn M doing pc on...from EFI I am looking only blk0,1,2: devices in there nothing.Its blank.
Why EFI is not recozniging this??
Please help!!
I am using trial bundle.
BR,
Kapil+

Re: HPVM trial bundle

Torsten. — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:28:00 GMT

Did you assign it like this?

dvd:scsi::null:/pathname
Where /pathname is the file system directory where the ISO files are located

Please provide your full command!

Did you "insert" the ISO into the drive?

vMP> in

Re: HPVM trial bundle

Torsten. — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:41:10 GMT

"Inserting" an ISO into a virtual drive works like this (from virtual MP of the guest):

vMP> in

Insertable Guest Devices
Num Hw-path (Bus,Slot,Tgt) Gdev
--------------------------------------------
[1] 0/0/1/0.3.0 (0,1,3) dvd

Enter menu item number or [Q] to Quit: 1

Insertable File Backing Stores
Num File
---------------------
[1] installdvd1.iso
[2] installdvd2.iso

Enter menu item number or [Q] to Quit: 2

Confirm insertion action
G - Go
F - Force

Enter menu item or [Q] to Quit: g

Re: HPVM trial bundle

Kapil Jha — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:48:13 GMT

Yes I assigned it like that....and in vMP> id in and uploaded cd it showed there.

So after loading...when m going to EFI....doign map
it is showing only 2 device blk0 and blk1.

nside it is saying.
blk1:\> ls
ls: Cannot open current directory - No mapping
Exit status code: No mapping.

What to do??
BR,
Kapil

Re: HPVM trial bundle

Torsten. — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:52:24 GMT

If you did

- create the ISO correctly
- define the virtual drive correctly
- inserted the ISO correctly

you must see it, e.g. as fs0>

Please post from EFI inside the guest

Shell> reconnect -r
Shell> map -r

Re: HPVM trial bundle

Kapil Jha — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:00:53 GMT

If you did

- create the ISO correctly
I created a file system and copied ISO in that FS.
- define the virtual drive correctly
defined as dvd:scsi::null:path/ISO
- inserted the ISO correctly
from vMP did in and it accepted server.iso

reconnect -r
reconnectcontroller(0,0,0) :status =success
map -r
blk0:
blk1:
blk2:

:(

Kapil+