HPVM clones first boot tasks
Welcome again to HPVM World! my dear readers :-D
Have to say that even with the initial disappointment about hpvmclone, cloning IVMs was a very funny task but I believe that the after cloning tasks weren’t very clear, at least for me, so I decided to write this follow up post to clarify that part.
Let’s assume we already have a cloned virtual machine, in this particular case I used dd to clone the virtual disk and later I created the IVM and added the storage device and the other resources but it also applied to the other method with minor changes.
[root@hpvmhost] ~ # hpvmstatus -P vmnode2 -d
[Virtual Machine Devices]
[Storage Interface Details]
disk:scsi:0,0,0:lv:/dev/vg_vmtest/rvmnode2disk
dvd:scsi:0,0,1:disk:/dev/rdsk/c1t4d0
[Network Interface Details]
network:lan:0,1,0xB20EBA14E76C:vswitch:localnet
network:lan:0,2,0x3E9492C9F615:vswitch:vlan02
[Misc Interface Details]
serial:com1::tty:console
[root@hpvmhost] ~ #
We start the virtual machine an access its console.Now we are going to follow some of the final steps of the third method described in my previous post. From the main EFI Boot Manager select the Boot option maintenance menu option.
EFI Boot Manager ver 1.10 [14.62] [Build: Mon Oct 1 09:27:26 2007]
Please select a boot option
EFI Shell [Built-in]
Boot option maintenance menu
Use ^ and v to change option(s). Use Enter to select an option
Select Boot from a file and the select the first partition:
EFI Boot Maintenance Manager ver 1.10 [14.62]
Boot From a File. Select a Volume
IA64_EFI [Acpi(PNP0A03,0)/Pci(0|0)/Scsi(Pun0,Lun0)/HD(Part1,Sig
IA64_EFI [Acpi(PNP0A03,0)/Pci(0|0)/Scsi(Pun0,Lun0)/HD(Part3,Sig7
Removable Media Boot [Acpi(PNP0A03,0)/Pci(0|0)/Scsi(Pun1,Lun0)]
Load File [Acpi(PNP0A03,0)/Pci(1|0)/Mac(B20EBA14E76C)]
Load File [Acpi(PNP0A03,0)/Pci(2|0)/Mac(3E9492C9F615)]
Load File [EFI Shell [Built-in]]
Legacy Boot
Exit
Enter the EFI directory then the HPUX directory and finally select hpux.file. Like I said before this part is very similar to the final steps of Method 3.
EFI Boot Maintenance Manager ver 1.10 [14.62]
Select file or change to new directory:
03/09/10 03:45p <DIR> 4,096 .
03/09/10 03:45p <DIR> 4,096 ..
03/10/10 04:21p 657,609 hpux.efi
03/09/10 03:45p 24,576 nbp.efi
Exit
After this the machine will boot.
Filename: \EFI\HPUX\hpux.efi
DevicePath: [Acpi(PNP0A03,0)/Pci(0|0)/Scsi(Pun0,Lun0)/HD(Part1,Sig71252358-2BCD-11DF-8000-D6217B60E588)/\EFI\HPUX\hpux.efi]
IA-64 EFI Application 03/10/10 04:21p 657,609 bytes
(C) Copyright 1999-2008 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
All rights reserved
HP-UX Boot Loader for IPF -- Revision 2.036
Press Any Key to interrupt Autoboot
\EFI\HPUX\AUTO ==> boot vmunix
Seconds left till autoboot - 0
AUTOBOOTING...> System Memory = 2042 MB
loading section 0
..................................................................................... (complete)
loading section 1
............... (complete)
loading symbol table
loading System Directory (boot.sys) to MFS
.....
loading MFSFILES directory (bootfs) to MFS
..................
Launching /stand/vmunix
SIZE: Text:43425K + Data:7551K + BSS:22118K = Total:73096K
...
When the VM is up login as root. The first tasks as always are to change hostname and network configuration to avoid conflicts.
Next we are going recreate lvmtab since the current one contains the LVM configuration of the source virtual machine. Performing a simple vgdisplay will show it.
root@vmnode2:/# vgdisplay
vgdisplay: Warning: couldn't query physical volume "/dev/disk/disk15_p2":
The specified path does not correspond to physical volume attached to
this volume group
vgdisplay: Warning: couldn't query all of the physical volumes.
--- Volume groups ---
VG Name /dev/vg00
VG Write Access read/write
VG Status available
Max LV 255
Cur LV 8
Open LV 8
Max PV 16
Cur PV 1
Act PV 0
Max PE per PV 3085
VGDA 0
PE Size (Mbytes) 8
Total PE 0
Alloc PE 0
Free PE 0
Total PVG 0
Total Spare PVs 0
Total Spare PVs in use 0
root@vmnode2:/#
To correct this remove the /etc/lvmtab file and execute a new vgscan.
root@vmnode2:/# rm /etc/lvmtab
/etc/lvmtab: ? (y/n) y
root@vmnode2:/var/tmp/software# vgscan
Creating "/etc/lvmtab".
vgscan: Couldn't access the list of physical volumes for volume group "/dev/vg00".
Physical Volume "/dev/dsk/c1t1d0" contains no LVM information
*** LVMTAB has been created successfully.
*** Do the following to resync the information on the disk.
*** #1. vgchange -a y
*** #2. lvlnboot -R
root@vmnode2:/#
Follow the recommended steps in vgscan output, the first step only applies if there are any other VGs in the system, if there is only vg00 it is already active so this step is not necessary.
Running lvnlboot -R is mandatory since we need to recover and update the links to the logical volumes in the Boot Data Reserved Area of the booting disk.
root@vmnode2:/# lvlnboot -R
Volume Group configuration for /dev/vg00 has been saved in /etc/lvmconf/vg00.conf
root@vmnode2:/#
Now the LVM configuration is fixed, try again the vgdisplay command.
root@vmnode2:/# vgdisplay
--- Volume groups ---
VG Name /dev/vg00
VG Write Access read/write
VG Status available
Max LV 255
Cur LV 8
Open LV 8
Max PV 16
Cur PV 1
Act PV 1
Max PE per PV 3085
VGDA 2
PE Size (Mbytes) 8
Total PE 3075
Alloc PE 2866
Free PE 209
Total PVG 0
Total Spare PVs 0
Total Spare PVs in use 0
root@vmnode2:/#
With the LVM configuration fixed the next step is to indicate the booting disk to the system.
root@vmnode2:/# setboot -p /dev/disk/disk21_p2
Primary boot path set to 0/0/0/0.0x0.0x0 (/dev/disk/disk21_p2)
root@vmnode2:/#
root@vmnode2:/# setboot
Primary bootpath : 0/0/0/0.0x0.0x0 (/dev/rdisk/disk21)
HA Alternate bootpath :
Alternate bootpath :
Autoboot is ON (enabled)
root@vmnode2:/#
Finally reboot the virtual machine and if we did everything correctly a new boot option will be available in EFI Boot Manager.
EFI Boot Manager ver 1.10 [14.62] [Build: Mon Oct 1 09:27:26 2007]
Please select a boot option
HP-UX Primary Boot: 0/0/0/0.0x0.0x0
EFI Shell [Built-in]
Boot option maintenance menu
Use ^ and v to change option(s). Use Enter to select an option
Let the system boot by itself through the new default option HP-UX Primary Boot and we are done.
Any feedback would be welcome.
Juanma.
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