This section addresses TPVM behavior on the SLX 9150 series platforms.
The SLX 9150 series platforms support only one disk of 128-GB. 64-GB of the disk are used to store SLX-OS, and the remaining 64-GB is used to store the TPVM image and any additional TPVM virtual disks. The TPVM disk image (or TPVM main disk) and any additional TPVM virtual disks share the same single 64-GB partition reserved for TPVM. It is important to be aware of this when creating virtual disks inside the TPVM.
The total size of the TPVM main disk and the all the virtual disks is limited to 64-GB, the size of the actual physical partition. Because these platforms are bare-metal systems, the SLX-OS reload behavior affects TPVM. When SLX-OS is rebooted, TPVM is rebooted as well. However, on the contrary, when TPVM is rebooted, SLX-OS is not affected.
All platforms are in baremetal mode in SLX-OS 20.2.x. A new command tpvm console allows
connection to the TPVM console directly from an SLX Telnet or Console session.
The following is an example of logging to a TPVM console using the tpvm console command.
[SLX]# tpvm console Connected to domain TPVM Escape character is ^\ Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS TPVM ttyS0 TPVM login:
Once in the TPVM console, you can execute ctrl+\ to switch back to the session from where the TPVM console was started.