Virtual machines & systems

[at coetsee_1]

Can one run only one OS type in a nPar. Eg one can not use the new virtual machine SW to run MS,Linux & UX on the same HW partition sharing CPU's and IO hardware ?

[Pete Randall]

Quoting from the vPARS web page ( http://h20293.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=T1335BC ) :

"vPars enables multiple instances of the HP-UX 11i v2 Operating Environment (OE) to run simultaneously on one server or within one nPartition"


Pete

[Duncan Edmonstone · Accepted solution]

If you are talking about the new Integrity Virtual Machines:

http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/cache/262803-0-0-225-121.html

Then currently the answer is effectively yes, as the VM host is HP-UX and the only supported VM guest is HP-UX.

At some point next year though, HP will support Linux & Windows as VM guests. At that point you will be able to run HPUX as the host VM and HP-UX, Linux and Windows as guests, all in the same nPar.

This is of course only on Integrity servers, no HP9000/PA-RISC

HTH

Duncan

[at coetsee_1]

Thank you