Release Notes for 3.4.1
E64077-06
September 2018
Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Installing and Upgrading Oracle VM
- 3 What's New in Oracle VM?
- 3.1 What's New in Oracle VM Release 3.4.1?
- 3.2 What's New in Oracle VM Release 3.3.4?
- 3.3 What's New in Oracle VM Release 3.3.3?
- 3.4 What's New in Oracle VM Release 3.3.2?
- 3.5 What's New in Oracle VM Release 3.3.1?
- 3.6 What's New in Oracle VM Release 3.2.1?
- 3.7 What's New in Oracle VM Release 3.1.1?
- 3.8 What's New in Oracle VM Release 3.0.3?
- 3.9 What's New in Oracle VM Release 3.0.2?
- 4 Notable Bug Fixes
- 5 Supported Guest Operating Systems
- 6 Configuration Limits for Release 3.4
- 7 Known Limitations and Workarounds
- 7.1 Integration Between Oracle VM Server for SPARC and Oracle VM Manager
- 7.2 Cannot Connect to the Oracle VM Manager Web Interface with Microsoft Internet Explorer
- 7.3 The Virtual Machine Console Window in the Oracle VM Manager Web Interface Opens in the Background when using Microsoft Internet Explorer
- 7.4 Inconsistent Value for SPARC Domain Type
- 7.5 Integer Only Values for the statValue Option
- 7.6 Aborting a Server Discovery Operation Results in Server Listed with an Unknown Operational State
- 7.7 Automatic Discovery Operations can Conflict with Server Configuration Operations
- 7.8 Solaris 11 x86 Virtual Machine Disk Type Can Cause Kernel Panic on Boot
- 7.9 Solaris 10 x86 Virtual Machine Installation Fails To Boot
- 7.10 Oracle Linux 7 Virtual Machines Imported from a VirtualBox Virtual Appliance Do Not Start on Oracle VM
- 7.11 (x86 Only) IOStat Stays at 100% Util for Oracle Linux Virtual Machines After a Storage Migration
- 7.12 Serial Console Does Not Respond for Oracle Linux 7 HVM Virtual Machines
- 7.13 Error When Attaching CD-ROM Drives to Running HVM Virtual Machines
- 7.14 Deleting Bond Ports for VLANIF Interfaces Deletes the VLANIF
- 7.15 (SPARC Only) NFSv4 Delegation Interferes with Cluster Heartbeat, Using NFSv3 Results in RPC Error PROGRAM/VERSION MISMATCH
- 7.16 Cannot Import OVF Files into Oracle VirtualBox
- 7.17 Oracle VM Manager Cannot Receive Messages from SPARC Virtual Machines
- 7.18 Cannot Boot Oracle VM Server Installed on an HP DL380 Gen9 Server in UEFI mode
- 7.19 (x86 Only) Cannot Boot Oracle VM Server with Broadcom 57840S CNA Card After PXE Install
- 7.20 Changing to Dynamic Mode IP Address Assignment Does Not Rollback if the Server is Unable to Obtain an IP Address
- 7.21 Drag and Drop from Blank Space of Object
- 7.22 Error When Using the Administrator Tool in Parallel
- 7.23 Oracle VM Manager Command Line Interface TCP Port Conflicts With Port Reserved for NDMP
- 7.24 When A Virtual Machine Using A Shared Virtual Disk Is Moved To Another Repository, The Shared Virtual Disk Is Cloned
- 7.25 Unable to Remove a Storage Array if a File System Exists on a LUN
- 7.26 Cluster Failure After An Offline Server is Removed From the Cluster While Another Cluster Member is Offline
- 7.27 LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS 1078 is not supported on Oracle VM Server
- 7.28 (SPARC Only) Hot-added CD-ROM Device is Detected As Hard Disk
- 7.29 Fibre Channel LUNs Missing From Oracle VM Manager After Refresh
- 7.30 (SPARC Only) Size of Physical Disk in Oracle VM Manager Incorrect When LUN Size is Decreased on Storage Array
- 7.31 The Apparent Size of a Repository in Oracle VM Manager Web Interface Does Not Update Automatically
- 7.32 Virtual Disks Do Not Display on Solaris 10 Guests
- 7.33 Oracle Linux 5 Virtual Machines Converted from Physical Hosts Do Not Boot
- 7.34 SSL Exception in AdminServer Log File
- 7.35 Oracle VM Servers in a Server Pool Must Be at the Same Minor Version
- 7.36 (SPARC Only) Cancelling a Virtual Machine Migration Not Possible from Oracle VM Manager
- 7.37 Oracle VM Manager Displays Incorrect Details for ZFS Storage Appliances After Cluster Failover
- 7.38 Oracle VM Server Upgrade Not Possible with Netapp Storage Plugin
- 7.39 Oracle VM Manager Web Interface Incorrectly Displays Oracle VM Server Upgrade Required
- 7.40 Oracle VM Virtual Machine Control CPU Pinning Does Not Take Effect on Oracle VM Server
- 7.41 The Oracle VM Manager Silent Install Option Using A YAML Configuration File Is Deprecated
- 7.42 Aborting An Oracle VM Server Upgrade Initiated By The UpgradeServers.py Script May Result In Inconsistent Reporting on Upgrade Status
- 7.43 Kdump On Oracle VM Server Only Supports Dump Levels 0 and 1
- 7.44 Network Receive Statistics For A Virtual Machine Are Invalid And Set To -1
- 7.45 CPU Affinity After Live Migration of Virtual Machine on Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) Systems
- 7.46 Virtual Machines Based on Oracle Solaris 11 Do Not Boot After Storage Live Migration
- 7.47 Changing Domain Type from Xen HVM to Xen HVM PV Drivers Causes Informational Messages in AdminServer.log
- 7.48 Single-Stream TCP Throughput is Degraded for Guest Virtual Machines Running UEK Release 4
- 7.49 Error Partitioning Caused by Disk Label or Format in UEFI Mode
- 7.50 Kernel Panic when Booting Guest Virtual Machine with Oracle Solaris 11.2
- 7.51 Oracle VM Manager Web Interface Goes to Blank Screen with Mozilla Firefox on a Linux System
- 7.52 HugePages Deprecated for PVM Guests as of Oracle VM Release 3.4.1
- 7.53 HugePages Does Not Display as Selected in Oracle VM Manager Web Interface
- 7.54 Kdump Service Hangs at Discovery of FCoE Device with Broadcom CNA on HP Servers
- 7.55 Kdump Service with UEK Release 4 Fails to Create Memory Dump on Cisco UCS B230 M2 Blade Server
- 7.56 Kdump Service No Longer Functions After Upgrading Oracle VM Server
- 7.57 Discovery of Oracle VM Server on FCoE LUN Fails Due to Interface Name
- 7.58 DNS Round-Robin and Nested NFS Export Configurations Result in Errors for Oracle VM Server Storage Repositories
- 7.59 Do Not Discover Oracle VM Servers Earlier than Release 3.2.10
- 7.60 (SPARC Only) Cannot Export Virtual Appliance with Physical Disk Access
- 7.61 Virtual Machine Configurations Take the Maximum CPU and Memory Values from the OVF of a Virtual Appliance
- 7.62 Virtual Machine Console Becomes Unresponsive During Migration or After Restart
- 7.63 (SPARC Only) MTU Resets to the Default of 1500 After Server Power Off
- 7.64 (x86 Only) Ethernet Port and VLAN MTU Resets to the Default of 1500 After Server Restarts
- 7.65 Oracle VM Server Installer Fails When Modifying Swap Partitions
- 7.66 Kernel Startup is Slow after Upgrading to UEK4 on PVHVM Guests
- 7.67 Cannot Enable High Availability (HA) for Virtual Machines with HugePages
- 7.68 Kdump is Not Supported on FCoE SANs or NVMe Partitions
- 7.69 Virtual Machines Hang at Boot if Grant Reference Request Too Large
- 7.70 Cannot Edit Running Virtual Machines with HugePages and HA Enabled
- 7.71 Incorrect Storage Configuration Causes Oracle VM Manager Upgrade to Fail
- 7.72 Import URL Cannot Exceed Maximum Character Length
- 7.73 Oracle VM Manager Upgrade Fails if Import URLs Too Long in Database
- 7.74 Oracle VM Server NIC Fails to Get IP Address if Configured for DHCP
- 7.75 SR-IOV Is Not a Supported Feature
- 7.76 Oracle VM Manager Upgrade Does Not Restore External Authentication Provider
- 7.77 Limit of 3 Virtual Machine Console Windows with Microsoft Internet Explorer
- 7.78 Oracle VM Agent for SPARC Upgrade Fails if Virtual Machines are Running
- 7.79 The kdump Service Cannot Mount the Root Partition if Zone Connection to EMC Storage Array
- 7.80 Oracle VM Server Hangs During Upgrade if Boot Partition Not Large Enough
- 7.81 GRO Must Be Disabled After an Upgrade When Routing/Bridging with IXGBE Driver
- 7.82 Change in Variable Name for the eventGetTypes SOAP Call using Oracle VM Web Services API
- 7.83 Restart Virtual Machines After Upgrade
- 7.84 LRO Setting Bridge Interface
- 7.85 Disable Transitional Update Repository
- 7.86 (X86 Only) SWIOTLB Buffer Errors When Using Jumbo Frames on Oracle VM Server
- 7.87 Operation Transactions
- 7.88 One Instance of Oracle VM Manager Web Interface Per Browser Session
- 7.89 IPv6 Updates On Some Microsoft Windows Guests Do Not Reflect in Oracle VM Manager
- 7.90 Incorrect Text Color After Acknowledging VM Errors
- 7.91 Unable to Copy Text or Take Screen Shots of Error Dialogs
- 7.92 Safari Web Browser on Windows is not Supported
- 7.93 Object Lock Prevents Some Operations
- 7.94 Unable to Configure NTP For All Servers
- 7.95 (x86 Only) Oracle VM Server Does Not Boot if Installed on a Multipath SAN Disk Greater Than 2.2 TB in Size
- 7.96 (x86 Only) Oracle VM Server Installer Goes To Black Screen After Running
/sbin/loader - 7.97 (x86 Only) Oracle VM Server Installer Hangs Waiting for Hardware to Initialize
- 7.98 (x86 Only) Oracle VM Server Installer Hangs Examining Storage Devices For Large Number of LUNS
- 7.99 (x86 Only) Benign Error Message During Install: HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed
- 7.100 (x86 Only) Cannot Use Installation Media to Upgrade Oracle VM Server if Earlier
than Release 3.3.
x - 7.101 (x86 Only) Oracle VM Server Upgrade From ULN or Oracle Public Yum Repositories is Restricted to Servers That Do Not Use Non-Native Packages
- 7.102 (x86 Only) Many ISCSI or Fibre Channel LUNs Require More Server Memory
- 7.103 Clustered Server Pools in Mixed Platform Environments Require NFS Access Groups To Be Configured
- 7.104 (SPARC Only) Cluster Recovery May Fail When Using NFSv3 For Server Pool File System
- 7.105 (x86 Only) Server BIOS Settings
- 7.106 (x86 Only) Oracle VM Server Does Not Support crashkernel=auto Boot Parameter
- 7.107 Kdump Core Collector Using Sparse Copy Fails
- 7.108 (x86 Only) Oracle VM Server Installation on Sun Fire X4800
- 7.109 (x86 Only) Installation of Oracle VM Server on some HP Server Hardware May Fail if Tape Drive is Attached
- 7.110 (x86 Only) Wake On Lan (WOL) Fails if Oracle VM Servers on Different Subnets
- 7.111 (x86 Only) Sun Fire X4170 Server Not Fenced During Cluster Failure
- 7.112 (x86 Only) Netconsole Unknown Error 524 During Oracle VM Server Start-up
- 7.113 (x86 Only) ACPI Buffer Error After Installing Oracle VM Server
- 7.114 Failed Server Evacuation Defined in DPM Policy Generates User Acknowledgeable Event
- 7.115 (SPARC Only) Serial Console Hangs During Installation of Oracle Solaris 11 on Virtual Machine
- 7.116 Editing Virtual Machine Configuration File Results in Unexpected Behavior
- 7.117 Concurrent Template Operations May Fail Due to Lock Issue
- 7.118 (SPARC Only) Wrong Error Message Returned When Importing A Template From An Incorrect URL
- 7.119 (x86 Only) Virtual Machine Fails to Restart On Another Server in the Cluster if ACPI is Enabled
- 7.120 (x86 Only) Oracle Solaris 10 Virtual Machine May Hang During Shutdown
- 7.121 (x86 Only) Virtual Machine Created with Network (PXE) Installation Does Proceed Beyond Pre Boot
- 7.122 (x86 Only) Maximum Memory to Start a PVM Guest is 470 GB
- 7.123 (x86 Only) Creating a PVM Guest Slow Using Local Storage
- 7.124 (x86 Only) Live Migration of a VM may be Affected by Guest Linux Kernel Version
- 7.125 (x86 Only) Improving Mouse Pointer Control in Virtual Machine Console
- 7.126 (x86 Only) Solaris 10 Kernel Panic on Some AMD Systems
- 7.127 (x86 Only) Solaris 10 Release 8/11 Guest Hangs at Boot
- 7.128 (x86 Only) Solaris 11 Guest With More Than 2 VCPUs Hangs at Boot
- 7.129 (x86 Only) Solaris 11 Release 2011.11 Guest Hangs at Boot
- 7.130 (x86 Only) Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 HVM Guests do Not Cleanly Shut Down
- 7.131 (SPARC Only) Need Actual Available Memory for Live Migration
- 7.132 (x86 Only) Network Card Limit in Virtual Machines
- 7.133 QLogic cLOM8214 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet NIC Initializes with Link State Down
- 7.134 Renaming of QLogic cLOM8214 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet NIC is Incorrect
- 7.135 (x86 Only) Incorrect ARP Reply When Using Jumbo Frames
- 7.136 (x86 Only) Changing Cluster Heartbeat Network Does Not Reflect New IP Address
- 7.137 NFSv4 Read/Write Delegation Not Supported
- 7.138 (x86 Only) Unclean File System Causes Errors When Used as a Server Pool File System
- 7.139 (SPARC Only) Agent Fails to Reconcile Multipath LUNS If Solaris I/O Multipathing is Disabled
- 7.140 (x86 Only) Size of New LUN on Server is Incorrect If an Existing LUN Is Unmapped First
- 7.141 (x86 Only) Remapping LUNs Causes Storage Refresh To Hang
- 7.142 (x86 Only) LUNs Must Be Cleaned Prior to Storage Repository Creation
- 7.143 NetApp ONTAP (8.2 c-mode) Operating System Does Not Work With Oracle VM
- 7.144 (x86 Only) Black Listing of System Disks for Legacy LSI MegaRAID Controllers Not Supported
- 7.145 (x86 Only) Blacklisting of System Disks for Multipathing Fails on HP Smart Array (CCISS) Disk Devices
- 7.146 (x86 Only) HP Smart Array CCISS Disk Devices Are Not Supported For Creation of Local Storage Repositories
- 7.147 (x86 Only) Multiple Paths Used in Multipath Environments on Oracle Pillar Axiom Storage
- 7.148 Refreshing a NAS-based File System Produces Invalid/Overlapping Exports
- 7.149 (x86 Only) Shared OCFS2 Cluster File System on Virtual Disk Not Supported
- 7.150 Virtual Disk Images Must Be Properly Aligned To The OCFS2 Block Size For Performance
- 7.151 Oracle VM Manager Command Line Interface Backspace Key
- 7.152 Oracle VM Manager Command Line Interface Allows THIN_CLONE cloneType On NFS
- 7.153 Untagged VLAN Interface Missing After Upgrade of Oracle VM Manager
- 8 Additional Software for Oracle VM