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    <h1>IBM PowerVM hypervisor driver (phyp)</h1>
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    <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)
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    <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).
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phyp://[username@]{hmc|ivm}/managed_system
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