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-l Lists unused devices that can be added for guest use. (For example, pipe -l output to a file
for use with —f.)
-r Recovers the Integrity VM device management database.
-u Uses disklist device cache (Do not force hardware scan.).
NOTE: This option is used to speed up the disklist command to obtain unused disks.
Use the -u option before using the following options:
• -a
• -c disklist
• -l
-v Verifies add and delete operations by this script (with the AUTOGDEV=YES attribute).
• all — lists all guest devices.
• assigned — lists all guest devices configured by any guests.
• unassigned — lists all guest devices not configured by any guests.
RETURN VALUES
The hpvmhostgdev command exits with one of the following values:
0: Successful completion.
1: One or more error conditions occurred.
DIAGNOSTICS
The hpvmhostgdev command displays error messages for any of the following conditions:
An invalid option is specified.
An empty or invalid file is specified with the -f option.
EXAMPLES
The following example adds unused disks and logical volumes as gdevs:
# hpvmhostgdev -a
The following example illustrates how to make a file of unused disk and logical volumes, and then
how to use the list to add them to as gdevs:
# hpvmhostgdev -l > devicelist
# hpvmhostgdev -f devicelist
NOTE: You can edit the devicelist file to remove disks and logical volumes that you do not
want added as gdevs.
The following example verifies guest devices added to the device database by the hpvmhostgdev
script:
# hpvmhostgdev -v all
The following example deletes guest devices added by the hpmvhostgdev script:
# hpvmhostgdev -d
AUTHORS
The hpvmhostgdev command was developed by HP.
SEE ALSO
On the VM Host:
hpvm(5), hpvmcollect(1M), hpvmconsole(1M), hpvmcreate(1M), hpvmdevinfo(1M),
hpvmdevmgmt(1M), hpvmdevtranslate(1M), hpvminfo(1M), hpvmmigrate(1M), hpvmmodify(1M),
hpvmnet(1M), hpvmpubapi(3), hpvmremove(1M), hpvmresources(5), hpvmsar(1M),
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