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23 The Virtual Management Channel (VMC) is a logical device which provides an
26 to provide an alternative to systems that use a Hardware Management
30 on an appliance server named the Hardware Management Console (HMC),
31 packaged as an external tower or rack-mounted personal computer. In a
46 traditionally require an HMC can be implemented in the management
107 This section provides an example for the management application
117 is loaded. It first creates and initializes the CRQ. Next, an exchange of
120 Finally, the hypervisor requests that the management partition create an
145 After the basic VMC channel has been initialized, an HMC session level
146 connection can be established. The application layer performs an open() to
147 the VMC device and executes an ioctl() against it, indicating the HMC ID
148 (32 bytes of data) for this session. If the VMC device is in an invalid
151 at index 0 and ranging to 254) for this HMC ID. The driver then does an
152 RDMA of the HMC ID to the hypervisor, and then sends an Interface Open
155 management partition to seed an initial pool of buffers for the new HMC
156 connection. Finally, the hypervisor sends an Interface Open Response
184 write() will return EIO for all other errors, such as an invalid device
186 put into a VMC buffer and an Signal Message is sent to the VMC driver in
210 results in an Interface Close message flowing to the hypervisor, which