topic Re: OS install problem on integrity VM guest in Operating System - HP-UX

OS install problem on integrity VM guest

Fernando Boza — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:10:31 GMT

Hello,

I have 1- VM host and 2 VM guests.
After creating 2 virtual machine(guests) on VM host, I started installation OS(HPUX 11.23) on one of guest(vm name is vm2) using .iso image like DVD.
But, processing was always stopped as below stage.

* Building a new kernel using the command: "/usr/sbin/mk_kernel -f -o /stand/vmunix".
NOTE: File system cache and transaction logging could not be disabled for the '/stand' file system. The currently requested operation may take much longer time than normal to complete.
* Building a new kernel for configuration 'import.config'...

Re: OS install problem on integrity VM guest

Eric SAUBIGNAC — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:07:51 GMT

Bonsoir Fernando,

I see no error message ? How many time have you been waiting before deciding that the process is definitively frozen ? After all there is the following message "The currently requested operation may take much longer time than normal to complete".

How have you created this ISO image ? Something like "dd if=/dev/rdsk/ of=/ ... bs=2048k"

Could you give more informations :

- VM Host HP-UX version : 11.23 december 2007 ?
- Version of HPVM : 3.5 ?
- configuration of the guest (hpvmstatus -P vm2) ?

A demain

Eric

Re: OS install problem on integrity VM guest

Fernando Boza — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:18:16 GMT

More than 3 hours...
- VM Host HP-UX version : 11.23 september 2006
- Version of HPVM : 2
- configuration of the guest

# hpvmstatus -P vm002
[Virtual Machine Details]
Virtual Machine Name VM # OS Type State
==================== ===== ======= ========
vm002 4 HPUX On (OS)

[Authorized Administrators]
Oper Groups:
Admin Groups:
Oper Users:
Admin Users:

[Virtual CPU Details]
vCPUs Type Entitlement Maximum
====== ======= =========== =======
2 50.0% 100.0%

[Memory Details]
Total Reserved
Memory Memory
=========== ===========
1 GB 64 MB

[Storage Interface Details]
Guest Physical
Device Adaptor Bus Dev Ftn Tgt Lun Storage Device
======= ========== === === === === === ========= =========================
disk scsi 0 0 0 0 0 lv /dev/vg01/rlvvm2
dvd scsi 0 0 0 1 0 file /iso/HP-UX_11.23_disk2.iso

[Network Interface Details]
Interface Adaptor Name/Num PortNum Bus Dev Ftn Mac Address
========= ========== ========== ======= === === === =================
vswitch lan switch1 2 0 1 0 c2-98-89-7f-75-ab

[Misc Interface Details]
Guest Physical
Device Adaptor Bus Dev Ftn Tgt Lun Storage Device
======= ========== === === === === === ========= =========================
serial com1 tty console
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Re: OS install problem on integrity VM guest

Eric SAUBIGNAC — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:32:32 GMT

Bad access to forum tonight ;-(

First thing : I am afraid that VM2 is no longer supported. Latest version is 3.5 but you must install it with a VM Host 11.23 later or equal than December 2007.

Anyway, it should work with your configuration.

What I can see is number of virtual CPU. With HPVM 1.2, it was a very very long time to install from an ignite server with more than one vCPU. May be the same issue with ISO image ? Try to decrease to 1 vCPU before starting guest installation ...

1 GB is quiet low ... but you should be able to install. Anyway, can you increase the size just for the installation process ? How much memory on the host ?

Ho ... you have not confirm whether or not you have created iso image with a 2048 KO bloc size ?

Time to leave for me.

Eric

Re: OS install problem on integrity VM guest

Geoff Wild — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 01:39:29 GMT

This is how I built my vms and the iso image:

http://www.met.ca/itrc/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=98&Itemid=2

Rgds...Geoff

Re: OS install problem on integrity VM guest

Torsten. — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:27:52 GMT

According to the release notes the VMHost requires some patches. Do you have them?
The release notes for version 2 are also more than a year old. I guess there are already new patches.
IMHO missing patches can be very likely the reason for problems ...