Integrity vm install from 2 iso dvd

[fabio sibillano]

a "simple" question.I am installing integrity vm guest on a rx6600 but the local dvd on this machine is an usb model, and the installation of the guests is very slow from this device, so I created 2 iso from the FOE dvd, and put it on a local device, then mounted the first iso as dvd with hpvmmodify -P guestname -a dvd:scsi::file:/vm3/ISO/disk1.iso
but...how to "swap" the iso file during the installation ? This because the operating system (11.23) is on 2 dvd...so at the end of the first I have to swap it, but can't modify the device while the vm is on....

Tnx in advance

[Duncan Edmonstone]

I haven't really touched this since v1 of Integrity VM, but certainly then you could modify DVD ISO files while the VM was on. Just use hpvmmodify to remove/add the DVD again and it should all work fine.

HTH

Duncan

[fabio sibillano]

Solved:

one of the possibility when the operating system is asking for the second dvd is to open a shell.So, open a shell and unmount the dvd. Then delete the virtul device with hpvmmodify -d from the host machine

make an hpvmmodify -a again for the iso file this time with the second iso image and from the shell of the installing operatig system remount the media.

[fabio sibillano]

solved

[Tim Nelson]

Glad you found a solution Fabio.

Another trick I use is to create a dvd iso image on an ignite server. Then copy that single image file to the VMHost and share to the VMGuests.

In my case I do not care what the image is as long as it is the same revision of the Ignite installer as I then do an ignite server recovery.

use make_media_install

[Torsten.]

If the ISO files are in the same directory, there is a very easy procedure.

Go to the VM's vMP and use "ej"ect and "in"sert to swap the ISO images.

vMP:VM> ej

Ejectable Guest Devices
Num Hw-path (Bus,Slot,Tgt) Gdev Pstore Path
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
[1] 0/0/0/0.1.0 (0,0,1) dvd file /var/tmp/ISO/installdvd2
.iso

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

Confirm eject action
G - Go
F - Force

Enter menu item or [Q] to Quit: g

vMP:VM> in

Insertable Guest Devices
Num Hw-path (Bus,Slot,Tgt) Gdev
--------------------------------------------
[1] 0/0/0/0.1.0 (0,0,1) 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: 1

Confirm insertion action
G - Go
F - Force

Enter menu item or [Q] to Quit: g