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1. Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.0 Release Notes
Required and Recommended Oracle Solaris OS Versions
Required Software to Enable Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.0 Features
Required and Recommended System Firmware Patches
Minimum Version of Software Required
Direct I/O Hardware and Software Requirements
PCIe SR-IOV Hardware and Software Requirements
Location of the Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.0 Software
Software That Can Be Used With the Logical Domains Manager
System Controller Software That Interacts With Logical Domains Software
Upgrading to the Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.0 Software
Deprecated Features in the Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.0 Release
Upgrading From Oracle Solaris 10 OS Older Than Oracle Solaris 10 5/08 OS
Service Processor and System Controller Are Interchangeable Terms
Logical Domain Channels and Logical Domains
Booting a Large Number of Domains
Cleanly Shutting Down and Power Cycling a Logical Domains System
Memory Size Requested Might Be Different From Memory Allocated
Logical Domains Variable Persistence
Oracle's Sun SNMP Management Agent Does Not Support Multiple Domains
ldmp2v convert Command: VxVM Warning Messages During Boot
Oracle Hard Partitioning Requirements for Software Licenses
Upgrade Option Not Presented When Using ldmp2v prepare -R
Block of Dynamically Added Memory Can Be Dynamically Removed Only as a Whole
ldmp2v Command: ufsdump Archiving Method Is No Longer Used
Only One CPU Configuration Operation Is Permitted to Be Performed During a Delayed Reconfiguration
Version Restrictions for Migration
SPARC M5 and SPARC T5 Support for cpu-arch=generic Migration
CPU Restrictions for Migration
Oracle VM Server for SPARC MIB Issues
snmptable Command Does Not Work With the Version 2 or Version 3 Option
Bugs Affecting the Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.0 Software
send_mondo_set: timeout Panic Occurs When Using the ldm stop Command on a Guest Domain After Stress
Dynamically Adding a Faulted Strand to a Domain Might Result in a Panic
Subdevices Under a PCIe Device Revert to an Unassigned Name
SPARC M5-32: panic: mpo_cpu_add: Cannot read MD
SPARC M5-32: Root Complex Failover Might Lead to an Incorrect Direct I/O Guest Domain Configuration
SPARC M5-32: Issue With Disks That Are Accessible Through Multiple Direct I/O Paths
ixgbevf Device in SR-IOV Domains Might Become Disabled When Rebooting the primary Domain
ILOM Power Capper Should Synchronize Adjustment Updates with /SYS/VPS Updates
A Guest Domain Cannot Boot When IOV-Loaned Devices Are Disabled
mutex_enter: bad mutex Panic in primary Domain During a Reboot or Shutdown
SPARC M5-32: LSI-SAS Controller Is Incorrectly Exported With SR-IOV
Cannot Set a Jumbo MTU for sxge Virtual Functions In the primary Domain of a SPARC T5-1B
ldmd Is Unable to Set the mac-addr and alt-mac-addrs Property Values for the sxge Device
ldm list-io -d Output for an sxge Device on SPARC T5-1B Is Missing Two Properties
Additional Restrictions for Migration
ldmconfig Fails: Fix for Bug ID 15972394 Precludes Unmodified factory-default Configuration
CPU DR of Very Large Number of Virtual CPUs Can Appear to Fail
SPARC T4-4: Unable to Bind a Guest Domain
Guest Domain Can Panic When CPU DR is Performed After a Cross-CPU Migration
Guest Domain Fails to Boot When the Memory is Highly Fragmented
CPU Dynamic Reconfiguration of Available CPUs Causes an lpl_topo_verify fail -5 Panic
Root Domains Cannot Have Dependencies on Other Root Domains
Guest Domain Panics After a Migration When Cores are Added
Guest Domain Panics While Changing the threading Property Value From max-throughput to max-ipc
The Control Domain Hangs on Reboot With Two Active Direct I/O Domains
ldm rm-io Should Accept --dry-run as an Alias for -n
Migration Problems Arise Between Systems That Have Different Firmware Versions Installed
No Error Message When a Memory DR Add is Partially Successful
Unable to Stop a Domain With the ldm stop or ldm stop -f Command
PCIe Fabrics Are Not Accessible by Guest Domains When 11 or More Domains Have PCIe Devices
Re-creating a Domain That Has PCIe Virtual Functions From an XML File Fails
ldm init-system Command Cannot Correctly Re-create a Domain That Has Virtual Function Devices
Control Domain Requires the Lowest Core in the System
ldmd Daemon Does Not Come Online
After Canceling a Migration, ldm Commands That Are Run on the Target System Are Unresponsive
Some Emulex Cards Do Not Work When Assigned to I/O Domain
Guest Domain Panics When Running the cputrack Command During a Migration to a SPARC T4 System
Oracle Solaris 11: DRM Stealing Reports Oracle Solaris DR Failure and Retries
Limit the Maximum Number of Virtual Functions That Can Be Assigned to a Domain
Guest Domain That Uses Cross-CPU Migration Reports Random Uptimes After the Migration Completes
Version 8.2.0 of the System Firmware Contains a New Version of the scvar Database
ldm remove-io of PCIe Cards That Have PCIe-to-PCI Bridges Should Be Disallowed
ldm stop Command Might Fail If Issued Immediately After an ldm start Command
init-system Does Not Restore Named Core Constraints for Guest Domains From Saved XML Files
Using ldm set-io to Change pvid Value Twice in Succession Might Cause a Configuration Failure
Vague SR-IOV Error Message: Create vf failed
Partial Core primary Fails to Permit Whole-Core DR Transitions
ldm list-io Command Shows the UNK or INV State After Boot
Removing a Large Number of CPUs From a Guest Domain Fails
Cannot Use Oracle Solaris Hot-Plug Operations to Hot-Remove a PCIe Endpoint Device
Virtual Disk Validation Fails for a Physical Disk With No Slice 2
All ldm Commands Hang When Migrations Have Missing Shared NFS Resources
Logical Domains Agent Service Does Not Come Online If the System Log Service Does Not Come Online
Kernel Deadlock Causes Machine to Hang During a Migration
Virtual CPU Timeout Failures During DR
Migration Failure Reason Not Reported When the System MAC Address Clashes With Another MAC Address
Simultaneous Migration Operations in "Opposite Direction" Might Cause ldm to Hang
Removing a Large Number of CPUs From the Control Domain Fails
System Running the Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 OS That Has the Elastic Policy Set Might Hang
pkgadd Fails to Set ACL Entries on /var/svc/manifest/platform/sun4v/ldmd.xml
SPARC T3-1: Issue With Disks That Are Accessible Through Multiple Direct I/O Paths
An In-Use MAC Address Can be Reassigned
ldmconfig Cannot Create a Domain Configuration on the SP
Uncooperative Oracle Solaris Domain Migration Can Be Blocked If cpu0 Is Offline
Memory DR Is Disabled Following a Canceled Migration
Dynamic Reconfiguration of MTU Values of Virtual Network Devices Sometimes Fails
Confusing Migration Failure Message for Real Address Memory Bind Failures
Dynamically Removing All the Cryptographic Units From a Domain Causes SSH to Terminate
PCI Express Dual 10-Gigabit Ethernet Fiber Card Shows Four Subdevices in ldm list-io -l Output
ldm Commands Are Slow to Respond When Several Domains Are Booting
Oracle Solaris 11: Zones Configured With an Automatic Network Interface Might Fail to Start
Oracle Solaris 10: Virtual Network Devices Are Not Created Properly on the Control Domain
Newly Added NIU/XAUI Adapters Are Not Visible to Host OS If Logical Domains Is Configured
I/O Domain or Guest Domain Panics When Booting From e1000g
Explicit Console Group and Port Bindings Are Not Migrated
Migration Does Not Fail If a vdsdev on the Target Has a Different Back End
Migration Can Fail to Bind Memory Even If the Target Has Enough Available
Logical Domains Manager Does Not Start If the Machine Is Not Networked and an NIS Client Is Running
Logical Domains Manager Displays Migrated Domains in Transition States When They Are Already Booted
Cannot Connect to Migrated Domain's Console Unless vntsd Is Restarted
Logical Domains Manager Can Take Over 15 Minutes to Shut Down a Domain
scadm Command Can Hang Following an SC or SP Reset
Simultaneous Netinstallation of Multiple Domains Fails When in a Common Console Group
ldc_close: (0xb) unregister failed, 11 Warning Messages
Guest Domain With Too Many Virtual Networks on the Same Network Using DHCP Can Become Unresponsive
Cannot Set Security Keys With Logical Domains Running
Behavior of the ldm stop-domain Command Can Be Confusing
ldm(1M) Man Page: Dynamic Creation of Virtual Functions Is Not Supported
ldm(1M) Man Page: Only ldm add-spconfig -r Performs a Manual Recovery
The following RFEs and bugs have been fixed for the Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.0 software release:
RFE: Constraint database needs to be tied to saved config
RFE: Domain Migration should work in PM Elastic mode
RFE: DRM should work in PM Elastic mode
RFE: ldm stop should trigger a graceful Solaris shutdown
RFE: Need a way to retrieve LDoms Guest Domain Power usage
ldm remove-reconf should not take more than 1 guest for argument
RFE: Deprecate XML v2 interface in Logical Domains Manager
RFE: Direct I/O and IOV support for non-primary Root Domains
PM hi water mark must be <= DRM's; DRM uses allocated-normalized util, PM use active-normalized util
Binding a domain should cause memory and cpus to occupy the same cpu socket
ldm ls should report normalized utilization information
RFE: LDoms support for Dynamic SR-IOV
Utilization interface should allow averaging history time to be specified
LDoms supports New PM policy that allows only low impact PM states
RFE: Board DR policy engine work for cpu & memory resources
RFE: Dynamic Direct IO (DDIO) support in Logical Domains Manager
“Do not change threading during delayed reconfig” to be explicitly stated in the docs
Primary and guest domain disks corrupted when using a physical disk for guest
RFE: Redesign bootset support
RFE: delayed reconfig enhancements for SR-IOV
RFE: LDoms support for Physical Domain DR
RFE: Need LDoms MIB support on S11
RFE: describe CPU power regions to the affinity engine
RFE: Logical Domains Manager must accept PRI updates for board DR, PM & FMA
Cancelling delayed reconfiguration does not restore extended-mapin-space value.
RFE: Board DR blacklist evacuation support for fault management
Primary panics on repeated delayed reconfig set/cancel of extended-mapin-space parameter
Clean up unneeded support for DR-based power management in code base
Assign reminder or unused interrupt resources to primary domain
ldm returns 0 on failure to start ldg
UUID is not immediately saved in the MD for bound domains if it did not previously exist
Memory leak in parse_mblock_str
Whole-core not handled correctly if there is no change to cpus
RFE: rc-add-policy and iov=on/off options to enable IOV features for a Root Complex
RFE: Board DR sequencing of removal/restoring of Root Complexes
RFE: Board DR tracking of evacuated I/O constraints
RFE: Recovery mode support for I/O configuration
Add Oracle VM Server for SPARC 2.2 man pages
Migration of named core domains fails if the target has corresponding core busy or non-existent
RFE: Create Coherency Link nodes in PM and modify PM to report that they are always bound
CPU DR skipped because the last crypto could not be removed from an active domain
Only set-vcpu should work with named cores, plus add|set|rm-core out of sync with add|set|rm-vcpu -c
ldmd dumps core (do_hv_pm_aync) on systems running s10u9_14a
PM: Add defensive code to guard against invalid SP budget string
SDIO config is not properly rebuilt when 'ldm init-system -r -i filename.xml' is used
P2V not failing on svm soft partitions appropriately
MIB: ldomVdsdevTable is displaying vdsdev details twice
When set-vcpu triggers delayed reconfig, redundant output messages can be seen
Unable to add VFs to the primary domain following the cancellation of delayed reconfiguration
Cross-CPU migration of guests with MAUs to platforms without MAUs fails
RFE: LDoms should retain the whole-core constraint across migrations
Cannot create anymore a Virt. Switch with the Java API, XMPP driver refuses the operation
Migration sometimes failed from a Logical Domains Manager 2.2 system to a 2.1 system
LDoms2.2_19 Logical Domains Manager crashes when LDoms 2.1 SDIO config is present
ldm ls-io -p listing has changed in ldoms_2.2 breaking existing automation
LDoms variables modified by eeprom command at the OS prompt may not persist when ldmd is running
LDoms/SR-IOV: ConnectX device should have better name than “IOVGEN”
LDoms/PM doesn't cope with non-sequential cpu chip IDs, and attempts to park all strands on a node
'ldm init-system -r -i filename.xml' does not reboot primary
Wrong error message for missing vdsdev on target: migration in progress
ldm should not allow empty backend name
Parfait 0.5 catches double free in pm_pap_sat.c and multiple file descriptor leaks in various files
Migration of domain with whole-core constraint from 2.2 to 2.1 patch fails
ldm list-io -l -p shows <device>, <device> for buses, rather than <device>, <alias>
RFE: Need to signal to SP when first guest is created by Logical Domains Manager
ldoms-incorporation needs facet.version-lock set in order to allow an unconstrained ldomsmanager
Certain high mblock configs or out of order PA bindings list can lead to assert
Japanese man pages need to be added to the 2.2 IPS manifests
Need to harden XML parser (FUZZ testing)
“Invalid HV MD contents” abort seen on attempting T3-2 power-on with saved max domain SP config
LDoms man pages all refer to “SunOS 5.10” (even on S11)
Box appears to hang when threading is incorrect prior to the whole-core constraint
Affinity bind should call PM function for memory selections
XML representation of guest domain with VF devices does not store VFs as constraints
ldm list-constraints parseable output has 'dev' displaying device alias and is missing device path
'ldm list-spconfig -r' may return “No autosave configurations” when there are valid autosaves
ldmd aborts and restarts on repeated extended-mapin-space set and cancel of del. reconf. operations
quickSuite.py “ldm bind ldg8” fails with “Power Management Failure”
Setting unicast slots to a number exceeding the maximum supported causes it to be reset to 0
ldm init-system command report 'disk server not found' error
ldmd should return failure message to fmd if a page retire request fails
Memory leaks in pm_testlib
“Solaris_audit au_write bad audit descriptor: Bad file number” found during ldoms vcpu setup
ldmd crashed on “fatal error: Frag HV MD assign failed” on powercycle boot to factory-default.
ldmp2v collect phase needs to check zone status more strict
Logical Domains Manager spurious warning: Frag assign for '_sys_'/HV MD memory size mismatch, asked for X should be Y
M5/T5: Migration fails initialization on Logical Domains Manager startup
Further vnet addition after system ran out of LDCs caused ldmd SEGV crash and restart
ldmd fails large config spconfig saves due to reduced timeouts
Unable to “re-bind” guest domain if some cpu strands are ILOM disabled
Package system/ldoms/ldomsmanager delivers broken symlink
ldmd coredumps & goes into maintenance mode when attempting rm-io post delayed reconf cancellation
RFE: Add authorization capabilities to the Observability Module
Logical Domains Manager should provide normalized vcpu utilization data for DRM/PM
Delayed reconfig type not persisted across ldmd restarts
RFE: Facility for LDoms to log all guest console messages
ldm ls-io output incorrectly shows niantic PFs even after card is assigned (DIO) to a guest domain
Idle domain with threading=max-ipc shows 88% utilization
Sending XML/XMPP v2 contents but with a v3 version causes ldmd to core dump
RFE: Add to Logical Domains Manager support for platform-specific shared-object modules
Domain with threading=max-ipc loses VCPUs on Logical Domains Manager restart
Logical Domains Manager aborts when it fails to allocate a frag for IO domains
Add pm-address-congruence-offset property to mblock nodes for memory power management
Adding of vnet updates do not generate traps ldomVnetChange trap
Fortify: Replace uses of strcpy with strlcpy
ldmd core dumps when boundary case {add|rm}-core operations are attempted
ldomVconsGroupName shows stale information after a change in group name using ldm set-vcons
SNMP MIB functions don't handle new user names in a safe manner
DIOV: remove-io <slot> primary should not dynamically remove slot when using non-diov FW
LDoms 2.2 admin guide: ldomMIB is missing in the mib tree
SNMP MIBs are not described in Oracle VM Server for SPARC 2.2
RFE: LDoms PM must be made a RTL loadable external shared-object
Remove strcpy from mib/*.c
RFE: Fujitsu M10 Guest Domain error notification feature support on OVM
RFE: Capacity on Demand with OVM for SPARC on Fujitsu M10 system
RFE: HV Debug support
RFE: Support to Collect Information of PCI-Express Card on XSCF
RFE: OVM Fujitsu M10 Power Management support
RFE: Fujitsu M10 RAS feature support on OVM
RFE: Fujitsu M10 OVM supports for SP initiated ordered shutdown
RFE: OVM Fujitsu M10 System Core support
Constraints database needs to encode special chars
set-core fails with a message reporting incorrect number of total cores available
XML list-constraints output needs to encode special chars
install-ldm should print warning and exit if OS is not S10
LDoms documentation is not precise in “How to Control Access to All Domain Consoles”
RFE: Create IPS packages for MIB and test libraries
Parfait 1.0 reports File and Memory Leak errors in Logical Domains Manager codebase
RFE: Cross CPU Migration support between Fujitsu M10 server and T series
Change of vnet MTU does not trigger any MIB traps
Change of vsw mtu, vlan and inter-vnet-link failed to trigger traps
LDOMSAG: Chapter 1 Service domain needs minor correction
LDOMSAG: Adding iso image
LDOMSAG: ldm inter-vnet-link property
Device-specific properties of a vf destroyed by board evacuation need to be saved/restored
Adjust PM policy constraint values
ldm ls-devices -a core shows core id out of order after CMU add operations
ldmp2v collect aborts saying patchadd missing instead of saying S11 not supported
Solaris 'eeprom' command timeouts due to MD downloads taking too long
RFE: crash recovery subsystem for Logical Domains Manager
“ldm set-mem --auto-adj 4G primary” failed to adjust memory close to 4G and claim all mem in used
RFE: Add fan and memory power consumption data to Obs Mod
Logical Domains Manager frag code should notify PM when mblock is used/unused
Problem with mgmt/migration
Merge unit test hg repo into Logical Domains Manager source hg repo
Add DBG macros for XML & XMPP and improve general XML debug output
Misc cleanup of XMPP code to harden it against errors
Board DR blacklist pending evacuation completion cleanup for the guest reboot scenario
OPL systems with pkg:/group/system/solaris-large-server not svcs -x clean after installation
ldmd fails: fatal error: xmalloc of negative size (-160) at 274 in ldomcli/vcpu_cmds.c
DR sequencing fails to cleanup when one of the sequencing event fails
Primary config'd with threading=max-ipc but no whole-core constraint set while in delay-reconf
RFE: list-io command output need to be improved for large systems
ldm add-config -r fails on T4 with SysFW 8.4.0
frag_pri_reloc() causing core dump on Fujitsu M10
ldmd core dumps when creating guests (start -i <file>) and failed to create multiple guest domains
pmi_boottime_var_add() does an LDoms database add in delayed reconfig
Explicitly document that setting ldmd/hops to '0' by default does not mean do no checking
Active pm policy not being set transitioning from disabled to elastic policy
Incompatible return type from ldm_add_pciedev()
Repopulation of evacuated IO domains is inefficient
IB SR-IOV: ldmd crashes while creating a VF from an IB SR-IOV Physical function
PM sample_time calculation may cause overflow
ls-constraints CORE COUNT does not make sense for domains without whole-core
MAC Address collision in a logical domain while migrating or adding new vnet
RFE: Allow multiple vsw per network adaptor on Crossbow to support OVMM live migration
Memory leak in iov_bind_vfs (iov_cmd.c)
Guest domain panic during dr_mem?dr_mem_configure+0x94
Race condition between handle_mac_response_msg and get_remote_ip_addr
add-core and rm-core should fail if the domain is not whole-core constrained
Warning: md_notify_guest_state: unexpected result 2. Unable to notify SP first guest created
Warning: HV guest start operation failed (7)
RFE: platform information tool for ovs-agent
SNMP OIDs for Fujitsu M10 PM are incorrect
skip_mblock_t definition does not match mblock_t