HP VM 4.3 Problem creating guests

[Cron]

Hi guys!

We're trying to create some guests in a new fresh VM hosts and we got this error messages:
hpvmnet: ERROR (host): Bad header line in /var/opt/hpvm/common/hpvm_mgmtdb - Error 0.
hpvmnet: ERROR (host): Bad header format in file '/var/opt/hpvm/common/hpvm_mgmtdb' - Error 0.
hpvmnet: ERROR (host): Bad header line in /var/opt/hpvm/common/hpvm_mgmtdb - File exists.
hpvmnet: ERROR (host): Bad header format in file '/var/opt/hpvm/common/hpvm_mgmtdb' - Error 0.

hpvmcreate: ERROR (host): Bad header line in /var/opt/hpvm/common/hpvm_mgmtdb -
Error 0.
hpvmcreate: ERROR (host): Bad header format in file '/var/opt/hpvm/common/hpvm_m
gmtdb' - Error 0.
hpvmcreate: ERROR (host): Bad header line in /var/opt/hpvm/common/hpvm_mgmtdb -
File exists.
hpvmcreate: ERROR (host): Bad header format in file '/var/opt/hpvm/common/hpvm_m
gmtdb' - Error 0.
hpvmcreate: ERROR (devecc): Unable to synchronize guest device(s) with the devic
e database during guest configuration update.
hpvmcreate: ERROR (devecc): Unable to update the configuration file.
hpvmcreate: ERROR (devecc): Unable to close guest.
hpvmcreate: Unable to create the guest.

Can any of you help us with this issue?. We've searched throughly in the documentation but couldn't find anything yet.

Thanks,

Javier

[Torsten.]

For any reason the file is bad or damaged - is this a new installation?

[Cron]

Yes, it's a new installation on an Integrity Superdome II with HP-UX 11.31. Is there any way to get this file again?.

Thanks,

Javier

[Torsten.]

You should be able to extract it from the depot - or even reinstall the product.
Do you use a supported version of the product?

[Cron]

Yes it's a supported version and we already re-installed the application.

[Torsten.]

So it is B.04.30?

[Cron]

Yes, it is. In fact we have upgraded to 4.3 from 4.2, because the problem appeared when we had 4.2 installed.

[Torsten. · Accepted solution]

AFAIK version 4.3 is minimum for this platform, together wit 11.31 1009.

[Cron]

HP VM 4.2 is supported on HP-UX 11.31 from September 2010. It's in the installation media.


Thanks,

Javier

[Torsten.]

So it works with version 4.3?


See the notes:

New Features and Enhancements in This Version of Integrity VM (9.3):

...
Support for HP Integrity Superdome 2
...

[Anonymous]

First of all let me mention that to update to HPVM V4.3 the whole OE needs to be updated (using update-ux) to 11.31.1103.
Just to make sure you followed the right process.

The file is not delivered with the product but it can be recreated.
You could possibly switch back to one of the backups that get created in the directory (/var/opt/hpvm/common/hpvm_mgmtdb_start.)
Or let it recreate itself:
/sbin/init.d/hpvm stop
rm hpvm_mgmtdb
/sbin/init.d/hpvm start

Note that the file is normally a text file so you can check what's wrong with it.
The errors I see when I corrupt the file are more explicit about the problem it find. Are you surely on V4.3?

[Cron]

Actually we solved the problem by cloning other boot disk in other partition on the same SD2, and installed V4.2.5.

Thanks for your help!

[Cron]

We solved the problem