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?

[Kapil Jha]

Yes I have.....and its in network with server.
BR,
Kapil+

[Torsten.]

So use your PC to create an ISO from the DVD and FTP it to the server.

There are so many tools available to create the ISO.

[Kapil Jha]

Ok.
so After creating ISO i'll assign that ISO to VM guest by
-a dvd:scsi::file:pathname/File.ISO

Now after doing hpvmconsole from EFI prompt how woul;d I boot the system.
Will it come as fs0: or blk0: in EFI prompt.
Thanks,
Kapil+

[Torsten.]

IMHO the best solution is to create a virtual null DVD and "insert" the ISO image into the drive via the vMPs "insert" command.

From manual:

"...
you can set up a Virtual NullDVD to a file system directory containing the
ISO files that the guest administrator wants to access. This resource statement would take the
following form:
dvd:scsi::null:/pathname
Where /pathname is the file system directory where the ISO files are located."

see chapter

7.2.2.3.5 Virtual FileDVDs

[Kapil Jha]

I have given /win/server.iso as dvd:scsi
and one file disk as /VM/vm1 same as disk scsi.
Now whwn M doing pc on...from EFI I am looking only blk0,1,2: devices in there nothing.Its blank.
Why EFI is not recozniging this??
Please help!!
I am using trial bundle.
BR,
Kapil+

[Torsten.]

Did you assign it like this?

dvd:scsi::null:/pathname
Where /pathname is the file system directory where the ISO files are located

Please provide your full command!

Did you "insert" the ISO into the drive?

vMP> in

[Torsten.]

"Inserting" an ISO into a virtual drive works like this (from virtual MP of the guest):

vMP> in

Insertable Guest Devices
Num Hw-path (Bus,Slot,Tgt) Gdev
--------------------------------------------
[1] 0/0/1/0.3.0 (0,1,3) dvd

Enter menu item number or [Q] to Quit: 1

Insertable File Backing Stores
Num File
---------------------
[1] installdvd1.iso
[2] installdvd2.iso

Enter menu item number or [Q] to Quit: 2

Confirm insertion action
G - Go
F - Force

Enter menu item or [Q] to Quit: g

[Kapil Jha]

Yes I assigned it like that....and in vMP> id in and uploaded cd it showed there.

So after loading...when m going to EFI....doign map
it is showing only 2 device blk0 and blk1.

nside it is saying.
blk1:\> ls
ls: Cannot open current directory - No mapping
Exit status code: No mapping.

What to do??
BR,
Kapil

[Torsten.]

If you did

- create the ISO correctly
- define the virtual drive correctly
- inserted the ISO correctly

you must see it, e.g. as fs0>

Please post from EFI inside the guest

Shell> reconnect -r
Shell> map -r

[Kapil Jha]

If you did

- create the ISO correctly
I created a file system and copied ISO in that FS.
- define the virtual drive correctly
defined as dvd:scsi::null:path/ISO
- inserted the ISO correctly
from vMP did in and it accepted server.iso

reconnect -r
reconnectcontroller(0,0,0) :status =success
map -r
blk0:
blk1:
blk2:

:(

Kapil+

[Torsten.]

I asked you earlier for the complete commandline you did, but you did not post it.

So I'm not sure if all of the above was done correctly.

You also did not post all of the output.

On this basis I can't help you.

BTW, from what DVD did you take the ISO?

[Kapil Jha]

I am sorry m not able to post those output because m working on colsole.
Well from winodws server2003 i took ISO from nero.
Kapil+

[Tim Nelson]

Try this.

After you IN to mount the virtual DVD/ISO file, select boot options from EFI. Select the DVD device to create a boot option.

Then just boot it.

It is possible that the EFI does not see or recognize the media and does not map a FSx for it.

[Torsten.]

I hope your windows CD is for **IA64** - Itanium!

Otherwise try the hp-ux install DVD.

[Kapil Jha]

I have installed complete HPUX again...22.23
so i selecte all packages...
it sould include T2767AC...but it does not have...
and now trail veriosn T2801AA also not working.....
any idea.

BR,
Kapil+