<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <body> <h1>IBM PowerVM hypervisor driver (phyp)</h1> <ul id="toc"></ul> <p> The IBM PowerVM driver can manage both HMC and IVM PowerVM guests. VIOS connections are tunneled through HMC. </p> <h2><a name="project">Project Links</a></h2> <ul> <li> The <a href="http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/virtualization/index.html">IBM PowerVM</a> hypervisor </li> </ul> <h2><a name="uri">Connections to the PowerVM driver</a></h2> <p> Some example remote connection URIs for the driver are: </p> <pre> phyp://user@hmc/system (HMC connection) phyp://user@ivm/system (IVM connection) </pre> <p> <strong>Note</strong>: In contrast to other drivers, the PowerVM (or phyp) driver is a client-side-only driver, internally using ssh to connect to the specified hmc or ivm server. Therefore, the <a href="remote.html">remote transport mechanism</a> provided by the remote driver and libvirtd will not work, and you cannot use URIs like <code>phyp+ssh://example.com</code>. </p> <h3><a name="uriformat">URI Format</a></h3> <p> URIs have this general form (<code>[...]</code> marks an optional part, <code>{...|...}</code> marks a mandatory choice). </p> <pre> phyp://[username@]{hmc|ivm}/managed_system </pre> </body></html>