HP-UX Virtual Machine Installation Error

[Héctor Morán]

Hi,

I´ve recently installed Integrity VM on a server (HP-UX 11i v2 - 4GB RAM), created a virtual machine with 2GB RAM (Integrity VM doesn´t allow 3GB in this case) and tried to install HP-UX on that VM, but at the end of the installation procedure I have this error:

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* Software installation of this source (B3920 11.23 Foundation OE: DVD2)
is complete.
NOTE: tlinstall is searching filesystem - please be patient
NOTE: Successfully completed
* Loading_software: Complete
* Build_Kernel: Begin
* 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'...
ERROR: The kernel build was interrupted by a signal 11 and did not
complete.
The arguments that were supplied to the linker are stored in
file /stand/failure_ldargs.
ERROR: Could not make an executable kernel. An interactive shell will now be
provided. Once you have fixed the problem or a kernel has been built
and placed in /stand/vmunix, "exit" the shell.

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I made a reboot and the entire server (not only the virtual machine) didn´t boot.

I tried again, that time with HP-UX 11i v3, and the error was similar:

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* Software installation of this source (HP-UX Core Software) is
complete.
* Loading_software: Complete
* Build_Kernel: Begin
* Building a new kernel using the command: "/usr/sbin/mk_kernel -f -o
/stand/vmunix".
ERROR: The data for the configuration being imported could not be
saved.
vxfs: WARNING: msgcnt 1 mesg 077: V-2-77: vx_fshdchange - /dev/vg00/lvol1 file system 999 fileset, fileset header : checksum failed
vxfs: WARNING: msgcnt 2 mesg 096: V-2-96: vx_setfsflags - /dev/vg00/lvol1 file system fullfsck flag set - vx_fshdchange
ERROR: Could not make an executable kernel. An interactive shell will now be
provided. Once you have fixed the problem or a kernel has been built
and placed in /stand/vmunix, "exit" the shell.

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I make the standard procedure for the HP-UX installation on the virtual machine (usually Next --> Next --> Next --> ...)

Any idea ??

[Torsten.]

Hi,

HP-UX 11iv3 (11.31) is not supported with HPVM 2.0.
What is your servers hardware and what is the date of your install media?
Maybe the install media is too old to support this?

[Héctor Morán]

Hardware: HP Integrity RX 2620 - 4GB RAM

Install media: HP-UX 11i v2 (December 2006 Media Kit) - The same media for the virtual machine

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What I don't understand is why if the installation of the virtual machine crashes building the kernel as it seems, the entire system crashes, not only the virtual machine.

[Héctor Morán]

I tried again and had same error, so the vm host crashes again. So I think the problem could be that i'm overwriting vm host files.

I created the vm this way:

# ioscan -funC disk
Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description
============================================================================
disk 0 0/0/2/0.0.0.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE TEAC DV-28E-N
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0 /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0
disk 1 0/2/1/0/4/0.0.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HP LOGICAL
VOLUME
/dev/dsk/c4t0d0 /dev/rdsk/c4t0d0
/dev/dsk/c4t0d0s1 /dev/rdsk/c4t0d0s1
/dev/dsk/c4t0d0s2 /dev/rdsk/c4t0d0s2
/dev/dsk/c4t0d0s3 /dev/rdsk/c4t0d0s3

# hpvmcreate -P virtual1 -O hpux -c 1 -r 3G -a disk:scsi::disk:/dev/rdsk/c4t0d0 -a dvd:scsi::disk:/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0

Virtual disk is the entire hard disk where vm host is placed, i think there is no problem with that, is it? Do I have to create a partition to install hpux on the guest?

When I tried to install this way:

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WARNING: The disk at: 0/0/0/0.0x0.0x0 (HP_Virtual_Disk) appears to contain a file system and boot area. Continuing the installation will destroy any existing data on this disk.

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Any help will be apreciated.

[Duncan Edmonstone · Accepted solution]

Hector,

Are you saying that your VM host boots of c4t0d0, and that you are trying to create a VM guest that uses that as a virtual disk *as well*!

You certainly can't do that! Your VM guest needs its own LUN, logical volume or file to use as its backing store, and trying to do this would certainly render your VM host unbootable. If you have no other disks in your system then use a logical volume or file as a backing store instead.

HTH

Duncan

[Torsten.]

Hi,

this looks like the boot disk of your VMHost.

/dev/dsk/c4t0d0 /dev/rdsk/c4t0d0
/dev/dsk/c4t0d0s1 /dev/rdsk/c4t0d0s1
/dev/dsk/c4t0d0s2 /dev/rdsk/c4t0d0s2
/dev/dsk/c4t0d0s3 /dev/rdsk/c4t0d0s3

c4t0d0 is the complete disk, s1..s3 are the sections (partitions).

You need to use another disk, an empty LVOL or at least a file to use as your virtual disk for the guest.


So it is clear now why the host is panic - you going to kill the boot disk!

[Torsten.]

The part of the message "0/0/0/0.0x0.0x0" looks like 11.31, right?
11.31 is not yet supported with virtual machines (beginning with version 3 you can probably install it as guest).

If you have another empty disk - use it!

If not, but enough free space on your boot disk, create a new LVOL and use this as your virtual disk:

...
disk:scsi::lv:/dev/vg_name/rlvol_name

[Torsten.]

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