Q. Starting parallel virtual machine?
To initialize PVM on any host on that PVM has been installed we can type
% pvm
The PVM console known as pvm is a standalone PVM task which allows the user to interactively start, modify and query the virtual machine. Then we can add hosts to virtual machine by typing at console prompt (got after last command)
pvm> add hostname
To delete hosts (except the one we are employing) from virtual machine we can type
pvm> delete hostname
We can see the configuration of present virtual machine we can type
pvm> conf
To see what PVM tasks are running on virtual machine we must type
pvm> ps -a
To close the virtual machine environment we must type
pvm> halt
More than one host can be added concurrently by typing hostnames in a file one per line and then type
% pvm hostfile
Then PVM will add all listed hosts simultaneously before console prompt appears.