This kernel does not support all the capabilities required by this version of the vPar monitor (2.0)

[Geoff Wild]

Have rx8640's.
Carving up with 5 vpars each.
2nd vpar has to be 11.23 - rest are 11.31.
After creating the 2nd vpar,and vparbooting it

vparboot -p vp01 -I

Obtaining size of AUTO (224 bytes)
Downloading file AUTO (224 bytes)



Obtaining size of AUTO (224 bytes)
Downloading file AUTO (224 bytes)
1. target OS is B.11.23 IA
2. target OS is B.11.31 IA
3. Exit Boot Loader

Choose an operating system to install that your hardware supports:1

Obtaining size of AUTO (224 bytes)
Downloading file AUTO (224 bytes)
Obtaining size of Rel_B.11.23/IINSTALL (24063841 bytes)
Downloading file Rel_B.11.23/IINSTALL (24063841 bytes)
> System Memory = 16334 MB
loading section 0
....................................................................... (complete) loading section 1 ................ (complete) loading symbol table
Obtaining size of Rel_B.11.23/IINSTALLFS (44957696 bytes)
Downloading file Rel_B.11.23/IINSTALLFS (44957696 bytes)
loading ram disk file (Rel_B.11.23/IINSTALLFS).
......................................................................................
(complete)
Launching Rel_B.11.23/IINSTALL
SIZE: Text:36209K + Data:8027K + BSS:8579K = Total:52816K Console is on virtual console Booting kernel...

This kernel does not support all the capabilities required by this version of the vPar monitor (2.0)


Stored message buffer up to panic:
Found adjacent data tr. Growing size. 0x2fc6000 -> 0x6fc6000.
Pinned PDK malloc pool: base: 0xe00000010103a000 size=114456K Loaded ACPI revision 2.0 tables.
MMIO on this platform supports Write Coalescing.


Ignite on ignite server is latest and greatest:

# swlist |grep -i ignite
IGNITE C.7.4.157 HP-UX Installation Utilities (Ignite-UX)


Anyone else install 11.23 on IA64 vpar when the first vpar is 11.31 with vPars A.05.02?

Rgds...Geoff

[Pete Randall]

Geoff,

Not really relavent to your problem maybe but I thought mixing versions of VPAR guests was unsupported - or was that a "feature" of the older versions of VPARS?


Pete

[Geoff Wild]

Table 2-1 PA-RISC and Integrity Differences of the vPAR admin guide states:

Supported OS
Integrity
11.23 (A.04.xx)
11.31 (A.05.xx)

And table 2-2:
A.05.xx Monitor Supports mixed HP-UX 11i
v2/v3 vPars
yes

Rgds...Geoff

[Eric SAUBIGNAC]

Bonsoir Geoff,

Not sure, and it would be a big heresy, but how do you interpret the folowing lines from http://docs.hp.com/en/T1335-90077/T1335-90077.pdf, page 6/16 :

-----
Operating System and Version Compatibility
This release is specific for HP-UX 11i v3 (B.11.31).

Hardware Requirements
The vPars A.05.02 release runs on HP 9000 servers and HP Integrity Servers with the HP-UX 11iv3 (B.11.31) operating system.
-----

In vPars A.05.01 release notes, the "Mixed HP-UX 11i v2/v3 vPars Environment" is clearly described. Nothing like this in vPars A.05.02 Release Notes ???

Regards

Eric

[Duncan Edmonstone]

Geoff,

1) Do you have hyperthreading disabled?

2) What version of vPars 4.x do you have in the 11.23 Ignite depot?

30 What update of 11.23 do you have in your Ignite depot.

I'm looking at table 4-2 on p 21 of the vPars ordering and config guide:

http://docs.hp.com/en/1705/oc.pdf

HTH

Duncan

[Geoff Wild]

1) Do you have hyperthreading disabled?
Don't think so...


2) What version of vPars 4.x do you have in the 11.23 Ignite depot?
June 2007 release A.04.04

3) What update of 11.23 do you have in your Ignite depot.
June 2007 release...


But...this just in, our ignite server is running 11.11 on parisc and just noticed in the release notes:

The C.7.4.157 release of Ignite-UX supports the the following HP-UX release/architecture combinations:

HP-UX release HP 9000 systems HP Integrity systems

B.11.11 Yes No
B.11.23 Yes Yes
B.11.31 Yes Yes

Oh No Mr. Bill!

Weird - because we havn't had any issues with our 11.23 and 11.31 golden images - until trying to put the 11.23 one in a vpar....

Rgds...Geoff

[Torsten.]

The "mixed environment" feature is new to the A.04.05 release, so you need to use this version in your 11.23 vPar.

The vpmon must be the one provided by version A.05.02 (11.31), see

http://docs.hp.com/en/T1335-90085/index.html

[Duncan Edmonstone · Accepted solution]

Geoff,

The setboot command should show you whether hyperthreading is on or off - it needs to be off for 11iv2 vpars to boot. You can set it with 'parmodify -P -T n', or using 'cpuconfig threads off' from EFI or 'threads off' from vpmon.

Torsten,

I think the 'mixed environment support' you are thinking of that is introduced on 04.05 is 11iv1/11iv2 mixed environment support. There is the following note on p12 of the latest vpars ordering and configuration guide:

---------------
Mixed HP-UX 11i v2/v3 vPars Environments
You can now have a vPars A.05.01 monitor and database that simultaneously supports
virtual partitions running vPars A.05.01 on HP-UX 11i v3 (11.31) and virtual partitions
running vPars A.04.02 or above on HP-UX 11i v2 (11.23). For detailed information, see the
â Mixed HP-UX 11i v2/v3 vParsâ section in the â Planningâ chapter of the HP-UX Virtual
Partitions Administratorâ s Guide.
---------------

So as long as Geoff has 04.02 or higher and the correct 11iv2 update release it should work...

HTH

Duncan

[Torsten.]

I guess I mixed up all the mixed versions, sorry.

[Geoff Wild]

This is looking more like an ignite issue - as we aren't even getting to the O/S install part...

[Torsten.]

Like Duncan said before, Hyperthreading enabled could be the showstopper in a mixed environment.
If this is enabled and you disable this feature, you need to reboot the nPar (vpmon).

The setboot or parstatus command from the running OS or
MON> threads
will show you he setting.

[Geoff Wild]

Yes - interesting that it was hyper threading that caused that message - you think the error would have been something about "hyper threading" - but that would be too intuitive now wouldn't it?