Integrity VM A.03.50 on HPUX 11iv23

[Tom Haddad]

Im creating some new virtual machines.
I created the first (HPVMCREATE) which assigned an VM ID of 1 fo the vmachine.
I created a second vmachine then removed it.
Upon creating the second one again, it was assigned a VM ID of 3. How can I modify the ID of the second machine to '2' ??

Its my first atttempt in working with virtual mahcines!! thanks..

[Ramesh S]

Hi

How did you remove that 2nd VM? i guess it was not deleted properly.

You could try this,

You will different directories for each guest under /var/opt/hpvm/uuids...

File called ".vmid" which holds the vmid ( your case 2) under each directory. Delete that directory which holds vmid 2.

Note: Do not delete other directory. That may corrupt the 1st VM.

Best Regards,
Ramesh

[Tom Haddad]

This second machine was not running when I removed it and it was removed with
hpvmremove -P vmachinename

thanks

[Eric SAUBIGNAC]

Bonsoir,

As far as I know, there is no way to specify the ID of a VM Guest. What you see is normal behavior.

Maybe you could reset this number by restarting the hpvm monitor after deleting a VM ? Process your hpvmremove, restart the VM Host, the create again the VM and tell us ...

But why do you want to take control on this ID ?

ERic

[melvyn burnard]

This is entrirely normal. Whenever you delete or remove a VM, the numbering scheme does NOT release the old number back, and as of yet I have been unable to find out why. This will not affect your VM configurations in any way.

[Torsten.]

The ID is assigned by the system while you create the HPVM and stored in

/var/opt/hpvm/uuids/....../.vmid



I would NEVER change this ... I'm lucky enough I have this ID (whatever it is) instead of the UUID.

;-)

[Rita C Workman]

I feel I'm cheating since I know you Tom...but...

On a playbox I did this:

Edit
/var/opt/hpvm/uuids//.vmid
..Should see the VM# id -Change it to the number you want
Edit
/var/opt/hpvm/common/guest_id
..Should see the same VM# id as above -Change it to the number you want

Reboot your host server

Now I'm not which one absolutely makes it change. I just found it under these two and change and rebooted and voila:
hpvmstatus....showed the number changed.

Would it a problem. You say your just creating, and nothing loaded yet. So it might be fun, to put it to the test.

Rgrds,
Rita

[Ramesh S]

Hi

/var/opt/hpvm/common/guest_id -- It has the id of last created VM. For example: if it has id : 3. when you create VM, it will create with id 4.

So, You need to edit the /var/opt/hpvm/common/guest_id with value 1.

Try this, it worked for me.

Best Regards,
Ramesh S

[Tom Haddad]

Issue has been resolved thanks to you help!