HPVM trial bundle

[Kapil Jha]

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+

[Torsten.]

How did you assign the dvd drive?

hpvmstatus -v for the guest will show ...

is a media inserted?

[Tim Nelson]

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

[Kapil Jha]

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+

[Kapil Jha]

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+

[Torsten.]

Run

# hpvmstatus -P

and post result.

[Kapil Jha]

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+

[Torsten.]

Why not using an ISO image as virtual DVD drive?

[Kapil Jha]

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

[Torsten.]

I think you have a PC anywhere, right?