VM Guest autoreboot

[Michael Boul]

How do I set a VM Guest to automatically reboot after the VM Host reboots

[Geoff Wild]

You have to do that in the virtual machine console..

hpvmconsole -P YOURVMGUESTNAME -fi

Rgds...Geoff

[Michael Boul]

What I want to happen is the VM Guest to autoreboot after the VM Host has rebooted. I do not want to manually start the Guest using the hpvmstart command every time.
I have the HPVM_ENABLE=1 flag set in the /etc/rc.config.d/hpvmconf file. I tried to find a flag in the hpvmconsole and looked for an autoreboot flag in the Guest GSP.

[melvyn burnard]

autoboot:
A characteristic of a virtual machine whereby it is set to start whenever Integrity VM starts.
Virtual machines can be set to either auto or manual boot using the —b option to the
hpvmcreate, hpvmmodify, hpvmmigrate, or hpvmclone commands.

So you do not set it in the virtual console, but use the above commands.
For example:
Set the autoboot attribute for the virtual machine myguest1:
# hpvmmodify -P myguest1 -B auto

[Michael Boul]

Thank you, that was what I was looking for. This is information that is not included in the Install and Creation of VM Guest docs.

[Torsten.]

"hpvmcreate/hpvmmodify -B start_attr
Specifies the startup behavior of the virtual machine. Starting a virtual machine is equivalent to
powering on a physical system. To cause the guest operating system to boot automatically, the guest
must have autoboot set, and a default boot device must be specified at its virtual console..."

page 146/156 in

HP Integrity Virtual Machines
Installation, Configuration, and
Administration
HP Integrity Virtual Machines Version 2.0

[melvyn burnard]

Actually what I stated was a direct copy from the manual

[Geoff Wild]

Hang on, from:

http://docs.hp.com/en/T2767-90067/T2767-90067.pdf

3.1.8 Specifying the Virtual Machine Boot Attribute
The â b option specifies the startup behavior of the virtual machine. The start_attr attribute
can have the following (case-insensitive) values:
â ¢ auto: Automatically start the virtual machine when Integrity VM is initialized on the host.
â ¢ manual: Manually start the virtual machine.

That just means that the vm starts - it doesn't mean the OS on it will. You still have to configure the Guest to boot the OS on startup - else it will only boot to the EFI...

Rgds...Geoff