topic Not able to UP the virtual switch in IVM in Operating System - HP-UX

Not able to UP the virtual switch in IVM

mangesh_2 — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 11:46:09 GMT

While i m trying to assign a mac address to virtual switch giving the below error.

Here is the details: error message

$/opt/hpvm/bin/hpvmnet

Name Number State Mode NamePPA MAC Address IP Address

======== ====== ======= ========= ======== ============== ===============

localnet 1 Up Shared N/A N/A

vsfqa3 8 Down Shared lan0 10.216.188.55

$ /opt/hpvm/bin/hpvmnet -S vsfqa3 -b

hpvmnetd: Unable to open /dev/hpvmdvr - vswitch vsfqa3 exiting: (errno=19) No such devicehpvmnet: ERROR (host): Unable to start hpvmnetd 'vsfqa3'.

hpvmnet: Unable to start the vswitch.

hpvmnet: Unable to continue.

$ /opt/hpvm/bin/hpvmst

hpvmstart hpvmstatus hpvmstop

$ /opt/hpvm/bin/hpvmstatus

[Virtual Machines]

Virtual Machine Name VM # OS Type State #VCPUs #Devs #Nets Memory Runsysid

==================== ===== ======= ========= ====== ===== ===== ======= ========

CGuest9 2 HPUX Off 1 7 1 1 GB 0

$ /opt/hpvm/bin/hpvmnet -V

Name : localnet

number : 1

PID : 5454

State : Up

Mode : Shared

NamePPA : n/a

Host MAC Address : N/A

Host IP Address : N/A

Number of guests : 0

Name : vsfqa3

number : 8

PID : -1

State : Down

Mode : Shared

NamePPA : lan0

Host MAC Address :

Host IP Address : 10.216.188.55

Number of guests : 0

$ /opt/hpvm/bin/hpvmstatus -V

[Virtual Machines]

Virtual Machine Name : CGuest9

Virtual Machine UUID : 917176a2-99c1-11dc-9401-00306ef3bd85

Virtual Machine ID : 2

Virtual Machine Label :

VM's Model Name : server Integrity Virtual Machine

VM's Serial Number : VM00747001

VM's Config Version : 3.0.0

VM's Config Label : HPVM A.03.00.00 clearcase opt Mon Apr 16 2007 05h53m59s PDT

Operating System : HPUX

OS Version Number :

State : Off

Start type : Manual

Console type : vt100-plus

Number of virtual CPUs : 1

Number of devices : 7

Number of networks : 1

Memory : 1 GB

Guest revision : 1

Running on serverid : 0

Running on pid : 0

Application controllers : NONE

Distributed : 0

Can have look at this problem why this is not able to create.

Re: Not able to UP the virtual switch in IVM

Steven E. Protter — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 12:04:28 GMT

Shalom,

The same mac address can not exist on two network cards on the same network. If this is what you have tried, it will not work.

Your objective is unclear to me.

SEP

Re: Not able to UP the virtual switch in IVM

Eric SAUBIGNAC — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 12:21:14 GMT

Bonjour mangesh,

<< While i m trying to assign a mac address to virtual switch giving the below error >>

You can't assign a mac adress to a virtual switch. You can assigne a mac adress to a virtual lan connected to a virtual switch.

Anyway, your problem is not there. Could you verify that hpvm modules are correctly loaded with :

kcmodule | grep hpvm

You should obtain :

hpvmdvr loaded explicit auto-loadable, unloadable
hpvmntdvr loaded explicit auto-loadable, unloadable

I guess at least one is not loaded

Eric

Re: Not able to UP the virtual switch in IVM

mangesh_2 — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 04:37:27 GMT

$kcmodule | grep hpvm
hpvmdvr unused auto-loadable, unloadable
hpvmntdvr loaded explicit auto-loadable, unloadable

From this clearly shows that hpvmdvr module have n't load in machine.Can you tell me the how to load this module.

Thanks a lot for giving the hints.

Re: Not able to UP the virtual switch in IVM

mangesh_2 — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 04:55:39 GMT

Hi i have tried to load the missing module but giving this type of message.

$kcmodule hpvmdvr=loaded
WARNING: The automatic 'backup' configuration currently contains the
configuration that was in use before the last reboot of this
system.
==> Do you wish to update it to contain the current configuration
before making the requested change? y
* The automatic 'backup' configuration has been updated.
ERROR: Unable to load module 'hpvmdvr': Object file error in loading
kernel module
Can you give suggestion for this problem.

Re: Not able to UP the virtual switch in IVM

Eric SAUBIGNAC — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 07:55:34 GMT

Bonjour mangesh,

I strongly suggest that you first reboot your host system : I already had this symptome and, as far i can remember, this issue was solved this way.

In my memory i had this problem after a patch installation. What about you ? First installation of HPVM (version 3 ?) or patch installation.

Regards

Eric

Re: Not able to UP the virtual switch in IVM

Eric SAUBIGNAC — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 08:46:59 GMT

Hi Mangesh,

What news ? Did you finally boot the virtual switch ?

Eric