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Windows Server 2008 IA64 Guest on HP Integrity VM (HP-UX)


This is a guest post by Antoni Sawicki (aka Tenox) This is a guide on how to install Windows Server 2008 guest on HP Integrity VM. Yes, Itanium and HP-UX involved.

Unlike installing HP-UX or OpenVMS guests, this is not widely documented (or at all) and a rather obscure process. However HP VM 4.3 also works pretty well and has an added benefit of a “Virtual iLO”(but don’t get your hopes for a graphical console. You need to create swlock file inside catalog directory of the extracted package to get past a lock error.

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