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Logical Domains (LDoms) 1.0 Release Notes

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Logical Domains (LDoms) 1.0 Release Notes

Changes for This Release

Supported Servers

Required and Recommended Software and Patches

Location of Documentation

Supported Network Adapters

procedure iconsmall spaceTo Determine If a Network Adapter is GLDv3-Compliant

Graphics Card Support

Memory Size Requirements

Software That Can Be Used With the Logical Domains Manager

General Notes and Issues

The SUNWldomu and SUNWldomr Packages Are Missing From Metaclusters in the Solaris 10 11/06 OS

Some Features Are Not Available Currently on System Firmware 6.4.x for Netra T2000 Servers

Sun x8 Express 1/10G Ethernet Adapter (nxge driver) Not Supported

Rebooting the Control Domain When Guest Domains are Running or Bound is Not Supported

Cleanly Shutting Down and Power Cycling a Logical Domains System

procedure iconsmall spaceTo Power Off a System With Multiple Active Domains

procedure iconsmall spaceTo Power Cycle the System

Removing or Updating a Virtual Switch Can Cause Networking to Fail

Interrupts and Logical Domains

XML Format Is Undergoing Changes

The ldm stop-domain Command Can Time Out If the Domain Is Heavily Loaded

Memory Size Requested Might Be Different From Memory Allocated

Power Off the Host Before Resetting the SC When the Logical Domains Manager Is Running

Dynamic Reconfiguration of Virtual CPUs with Cryptographic Units

Split PCI Regresses in FMA Functionality from Non-Logical Domains Systems

Logical Domain Variable Persistence

The eeprom(1M) Command Cannot Be Used to Reset EEPROM Values to Null In Logical Domains Systems

Logical Domains Manager Restart During ldm Command Execution

Bugs Affecting Logical Domains 1.0 Software

Logical Domains Manager Might Erroneously Assign an Offline CPU to a Logical Domain (Bug ID 6431107)

Guest Domains Currently Cannot Install the OS, LDoms, and Applications from DVDs (Bug ID 6434615)

Some format(1M) Command Options Do Not Work With Virtual Disks (Bug IDs 6437722 and 6531557)

Running Snoop on a Physical Interface Before the Solaris Virtual Switch Driver Attaches Can Cause a Panic (Bug ID 6473778)

Rebooting After a Break Hangs the Guest (Bug ID 6488115)

One CPU Might Show 100% Utilization Under Heavy Network Loads (Bug ID 6492023)

Warning Should Not Print When MD Generation Number Does Not Change (Bug ID 6495154)

Service Domain Containing the Virtual Switch Might Panic on Halting, Rebooting, or Net Installing (Bug ID 6496374)

Hang Can Occur With Guest OS in Simultaneous Operations (Bug ID 6497796)

SC Alert Messages Seen Each Time the SC is Reset (Bug ID 6499117)

Rebooting Multiple Guest Domains Continuously Can Cause OS to Hang (Bug ID 6501039)

Panic Message on the Control Domain When Syncing a Guest Domain (Bug ID 6501168)

Guest Domains Can Become Unresponsive During Repeated Reboots (Bug ID 6505472)

Behavior of the ldm stop-domain Command Needs To Be Improved in Some Cases (Bug ID 6506494)

Cannot Set Security Keys With Logical Domains Running (Bug ID 6510214)

The vntsd(1M) Command Needs to Validate the listen-to IP Address (Bug ID 6512526)

Logical Domain Can Panic or Lose Network Connectivity With Low Memory (Bug ID 6512604)

Virtual Disk Server Should Export ZFS Volumes as Full Disks (Bug ID 6514091)

The add-vnet Subcommand Allows a Virtual Network Device With the Same MAC Address as Another Logical Domain (Bug ID 6515615)

Restrictions on Using the I/O MMU Bypass Mode (Bug ID 6517338)

Need Logical Domains Manager Support for Contiguous Guest Memory Mappings (Bug ID 6517343)

System Hangs When Doing a Boot Net Installation With a ZFS File (Bug ID 6517957)

Certain ldm Subcommands Returns Misleading Message If One or More Arguments are Missing (Bug ID 6519049)

The vntsd Might Close Console Connections Unexpectedly (Bug ID 6520018)

Canceling a Delayed Reconfiguration Operation Results in a Misleading Message (Bug ID 6520530)

Service Domain Running vcc and vntsd Can Panic in Certain Situations (Bug ID 6521890)

Disks Managed by Veritas DMP Cannot Be Exported to Other Domains (Bug ID 6522993)

Rarely, When a Guest Domain Boots, It Fails to Establish a Connection With the Virtual Switch (Bug IDs 6523891 and 6523926)

Continuous Console Output From the Control Domain Causes Logical Domains Manager Requests to the SC to Fail (Bug ID 6524255)

Service Domain Panics If It Fails to Map Pages for a Virtual Disk Backed by a File (Bug ID 6524333)

OpenBoot Firmware Does Not Handle Logical Domain Channel Resets Properly (Bug ID 6524613)

CPU Dynamic Reconfiguration Is Disabled for Logical Domains That Have Crypto Units Bound (Bug ID 6525647)

Configuring Logical Domains With More than 32 Virtual I/O Devices or Services Can Result in a Hang During Boot (Bug ID 6526280)

Booting Multiple Logical Domains in a Loop Can Cause an Unresponsive Domain (Bug ID 6526814)

System MAC Address is Modified on I/O Domains When Adding a vnet Device (Bug ID 6526868)

Logical Domains Manager May Stop With Invalid Logical Domain Name (Bug ID 6527206)

Access to a Virtual Disk From a Guest Domain Can Hang If an I/O Operation Is Overlong (Bug ID 6527265)

The ldm start-domain -i xml-file Command Causes the Logical Domains Manager to Stop and Restart (Bug ID 6527347)

Memory Constraints Should Be Enforced and Reporting Improved (Bug ID 6527483)

Attempt to Store Boot Command Variable During a Reboot Can Time Out (Bug ID 6527622)

Disk Recovery Fails in a Service Domain When the Disk Device Is Actively Used as a Virtual Disk (Bug ID 6528156)

Newly Configured Virtual Network Device Fails to Establish a Connection With the Virtual Switch (Bug ID 6528180)

When Running Cluster Software, Selecting the ok Prompt Upon a Logical Domain Shutdown Can Cause Panic (Bug ID 6528556)

procedure iconsmall spaceTo Force the Primary Domain to Stop at the ok Prompt

procedure iconsmall spaceTo Force All Other Domains to Stop at the ok Prompt

ZFS Volumes Need to Have the Same Version of Solaris Software Running on the Service Domain and the Guest Domain (Bug ID 6528974)

Rebooting the primary Domain While Other Active or Bound Domains Are Present and Rebooting an I/O Domain Are Not Supported (Bug ID 6529426)

Virtual Disk Server Does Not Close Underlying Physical Device or File Correctly (Bug ID 6530040)

Fault Management Daemon in the primary Domain Appears to Hang If You Do Not Enable the Logical Domains Manager Daemon (Bug ID 6530948)

Page Retirement Is Not Persistent in the Logical Domains Environment (Bug IDs 6531030 and 6531058)

Aggregated Network Devices Are Not Supported by the Virtual Switch (Bug ID 6531266)

Loopback Devices Cannot Be Used as Virtual Disks (Bug ID 6532144)

Serial Port Cannot Be Used or Opened (Bug ID 6532334)

Second PCI Path Does Not Persist Across primary Domain Reboots (Bug ID 6532604)

Using the server-secure.driver With an NIS-enabled System, LDoms or No LDoms (Bug ID 6533696)

procedure iconsmall spaceTo Reset Your System

Cannot Forcibly Stop a Domain If the Domain Has Any Bound PCI Buses (Bug ID 6536420)

Logical Domain Time-of-Day Changes Do Not Persist Across a Power Cycle of the Host (Bug ID 6536572)

XML Output of the list-constraints Subcommand Is Missing the IO: Configuration Value (Bug ID 6537156)

MAC Addresses Are Not Listed in the Correct Format in XML Input and Output Files (Bug ID 6537172)

SC Command bootmode bootscript Does Not Work in an LDoms Environment (Bug ID 6540125)

OpenBoot power-off Command Behavior With Logical Domains 1.0 Software (Bug ID 6540632)

When the ldm add-vnet Command Fails, the Error Message Is Not Clear (Bug ID 6541158)

Machine Description Too Large for Logical Domains Manager's Memory Allocator (Bug ID 6541171)

Do Not Use an ldm set-vnet Command to Change a MAC Address on an Active Domain (Bug ID 6541284)

Occasionally, the Logical Domains Manager Does Not Send a Warning That a Disk Is in Use (Bug ID 6541323)

Errors to Buses in a Split-PCI Configuration Might Not Get Logged (Bug ID 6542295)

Forced Stop of a Logical Domain Can Result in a Panic on the Next Boot (Bug ID 6543418)

Adding a Virtual Disk to a Bound Guest Does Not Take Effect (Bug ID 6543735)

Avoid Using the OpenBoot watch-net-all Command on a Domain That Contains a Virtual Network (Bug ID 6543748)

During wanboot or waninstall, Miniroot Download Time Can Increase Significantly (Bug ID 6543749)

Emulex-based Fibre Channel Host Adapters Not Supported in Split-PCI Configuration on Sun Fire T1000 Servers (Bug ID 6544004)

Logical Domain With No Virtual I/O Devices Might Not Respond (Bug ID 6544197)

procedure iconsmall spaceTo Create a Fictitious Disk Device

Logical Domains Manager Incorrectly Assumes All vcc Devices Use the Same Port Range If the Logical Domains Manager Database Does Not Exist (Bug ID 6544772)

Upgrading the Solaris OS Could Cause Problems With Virtual Networking (Bug ID 6544866)

Adding Non-Existent Disk Device to Single-CPU Domain Causes Hang (Bug ID 6544946)

Virtual Disk Can Lose a Label When Rebinding a Domain (Bug ID 6544963)

procedure iconsmall spaceTo Check If a Label Is Valid

Watchdog Time-out Can Be Triggered by Heavy Network Loads (Bug ID 6545470)

Logical Domains Manager Not Propagating factory-default TOD-offset (Bug ID 6546491)

Virtual Switch Requires e1000g Driver Update Following Solaris 10 Upgrade (Bug ID 6547846)

Starting and Stopping SunVTS Multiple Times Can Cause Host Console to Become Unusable (Bug ID 6549382)

Documentation Errata

The vntsd(1M) Man Page Is Missing Information About Using the Double Tilde (~~) (Bug ID 6513007)