HP Integrity Virtual Machines 4.2: Installation, Configuration, and Administration

To convert a single guest, use the following command:
# hpvmdevtranslate -P guestname
You can use the hpvmdevtranslate command to undo the previous translation if the translation
is not more than five days old. The undo operation is run with the following command:
# hpvmdevtranslate -u
Options
The following options can be specified only once.
The hpvmdevtranslate command recognizes the following command-line options and
arguments:
-v Displays the version number of the hpvmdevtranslate command. The
version number is displayed first, followed by the information specified by
the other options.
-a
Translates all existing guests. If an hpvm_mgmtdb file is specified, the
translation uses this file.
-P guestname
Translates the specific guest.
-u If the translation is not more than five days old, the -u option, performs and
undo operation.
RETURN VALUES
The hpvmdevtranslate command exits with one of the following values:
0: Successful completion.
1: One or more error conditions occurred.
NOTE: An error exit occurs only if the program was unable to complete its processing. However,
if the program finds guest devices that cannot be translated, the output script will have comment
lines indicating the error with “ERROR:”
DIAGNOSTICS
The hpvmdevtranslate command displays error messages for any of the following conditions:
A legacy device has no agile device translation.
EXAMPLES
The following example lists the version of the hpvmdevtranslate command:
# hpvmdevtranslate -v
The following example translates the devices using an 11i v2 hpvm_mgmtdb file:
# hpvmdevtranslate [-v] -a /var/opt/hpvm/common/hpvm_mgmtdb_pre1131
The following example translates all existing guests:
# hpvmdevtranslate [-v] -a
The following example translates a specific guest:
# hpvmdevtranslate [-v] -P guestname
The following examples performs an undo operation if the translation is not older than 5 days:
# hpvmdevtranslate [-v] -u
AUTHORS
The hpvmdevtranslate command was developed by HP.
SEE ALSO
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