Release Notes for 3.4.2
E76173-07
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 3.4.2?
- 3.2 What's New in Oracle VM Release 3.4.1?
- 3.3 What's New in Oracle VM Release 3.3.4?
- 3.4 What's New in Oracle VM Release 3.3.3?
- 3.5 What's New in Oracle VM Release 3.3.2?
- 3.6 What's New in Oracle VM Release 3.3.1?
- 3.7 What's New in Oracle VM Release 3.2.1?
- 3.8 What's New in Oracle VM Release 3.1.1?
- 3.9 What's New in Oracle VM Release 3.0.3?
- 3.10 What's New in Oracle VM Release 3.0.2?
- 4 Notable Bug Fixes
- 5 Supported Guest Operating Systems
- 6 Oracle VM Manager Support for Previous Oracle VM Server releases
- 7 Configuration Limits for Release 3.4
- 8 Known Limitations and Workarounds
- 8.1 Integration Between Oracle VM Server for SPARC and Oracle VM Manager
- 8.2 Kernel Panic when Booting Guest Virtual Machine with 100 or more Virtual Disks
- 8.3 Different Default Values for the serverAffinityType when Creating Anti-Affinity Groups
- 8.4 Performance Impact for Less than 8 CPUs Configured for dom0
- 8.5 Oracle VM Manager Command Line Interface Fails Under Intensive Communication
- 8.6 Upgrading Oracle VM Server from Release 3.2.10 to 3.3.4 and then to 3.4.2 fails
- 8.7 Logical Volume Manager (LVM) is enabled on Oracle VM Server Release 3.4.1
- 8.8 Console screen fails to display after upgrading Oracle VM Server from Release 3.3.4 to Release 3.4.2
- 8.9 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 or Later Not Supported For PVM Guest Virtual Machines
- 8.10 Cannot Connect to the Oracle VM Manager Web Interface with Microsoft Internet Explorer
- 8.11 The Virtual Machine Console Window in the Oracle VM Manager Web Interface Opens in the Background when using Microsoft Internet Explorer
- 8.12 Inconsistent Value for SPARC Domain Type
- 8.13 Integer Only Values for the statValue Option
- 8.14 Aborting a Server Discovery Operation Results in Server Listed with an Unknown Operational State
- 8.15 Automatic Discovery Operations can Conflict with Server Configuration Operations
- 8.16 Solaris 11 x86 Virtual Machine Disk Type Can Cause Kernel Panic on Boot
- 8.17 Solaris 10 x86 Virtual Machine Installation Fails To Boot
- 8.18 Oracle Linux 7 Virtual Machines Imported from a VirtualBox Virtual Appliance Do Not Start on Oracle VM
- 8.19 (x86 Only) IOStat Stays at 100% Util for Oracle Linux Virtual Machines After a Storage Migration
- 8.20 Serial Console Does Not Respond for Oracle Linux 7 HVM Virtual Machines
- 8.21 Error When Attaching CD-ROM Drives to Running HVM Virtual Machines
- 8.22 Deleting Bond Ports for VLANIF Interfaces Deletes the VLANIF
- 8.23 (SPARC Only) NFSv4 Delegation Interferes with Cluster Heartbeat, Using NFSv3 Results in RPC Error PROGRAM/VERSION MISMATCH
- 8.24 Cannot Import OVF Files into Oracle VirtualBox
- 8.25 Oracle VM Manager Cannot Receive Messages from SPARC Virtual Machines
- 8.26 Cannot Boot Oracle VM Server Installed on an HP DL380 Gen9 Server in UEFI mode
- 8.27 (x86 Only) Cannot Boot Oracle VM Server with Broadcom 57840S CNA Card After PXE Install
- 8.28 Changing to Dynamic Mode IP Address Assignment Does Not Rollback if the Server is Unable to Obtain an IP Address
- 8.29 Drag and Drop from Blank Space of Object
- 8.30 Error When Using the Administrator Tool in Parallel
- 8.31 Oracle VM Manager Command Line Interface TCP Port Conflicts With Port Reserved for NDMP
- 8.32 When A Virtual Machine Using A Shared Virtual Disk Is Moved To Another Repository, The Shared Virtual Disk Is Cloned
- 8.33 Unable to Remove a Storage Array if a File System Exists on a LUN
- 8.34 Cluster Failure After An Offline Server is Removed From the Cluster While Another Cluster Member is Offline
- 8.35 LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS 1078 is not supported on Oracle VM Server
- 8.36 (SPARC Only) Hot-added CD-ROM Device is Detected As Hard Disk
- 8.37 Fibre Channel LUNs Missing From Oracle VM Manager After Refresh
- 8.38 (SPARC Only) Size of Physical Disk in Oracle VM Manager Incorrect When LUN Size is Decreased on Storage Array
- 8.39 The Apparent Size of a Repository in Oracle VM Manager Web Interface Does Not Update Automatically
- 8.40 Virtual Disks Do Not Display on Solaris 10 Guests
- 8.41 Oracle Linux 5 Virtual Machines Converted from Physical Hosts Do Not Boot
- 8.42 SSL Exception in AdminServer Log File
- 8.43 Oracle VM Servers in a Server Pool Must Be at the Same Minor Version
- 8.44 Oracle VM Manager Displays Incorrect Details for ZFS Storage Appliances After Cluster Failover
- 8.45 Oracle VM Server Upgrade Not Possible with Netapp Storage Plugin
- 8.46 Oracle VM Manager Web Interface Incorrectly Displays Oracle VM Server Upgrade Required
- 8.47 Oracle VM Virtual Machine Control CPU Pinning Does Not Take Effect on Oracle VM Server
- 8.48 The Oracle VM Manager Silent Install Option Using A YAML Configuration File Is Deprecated
- 8.49 Aborting An Oracle VM Server Upgrade Initiated By The UpgradeServers.py Script May Result In Inconsistent Reporting on Upgrade Status
- 8.50 Kdump On Oracle VM Server Only Supports Dump Levels 0 and 1
- 8.51 Network Receive Statistics For A Virtual Machine Are Invalid And Set To -1
- 8.52 CPU Affinity After Live Migration of Virtual Machine on Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) Systems
- 8.53 Virtual Machines Based on Oracle Solaris 11 Do Not Boot
- 8.54 Changing Domain Type from Xen HVM to Xen HVM PV Drivers Causes Informational Messages in AdminServer.log
- 8.55 Single-Stream TCP Throughput is Degraded for Guest Virtual Machines Running UEK Release 4
- 8.56 Error Partitioning Caused by Disk Label or Format in UEFI Mode
- 8.57 Kernel Panic when Booting Guest Virtual Machine with Oracle Solaris 11.2
- 8.58 Oracle VM Manager Web Interface Goes to Blank Screen with Mozilla Firefox on a Linux System
- 8.59 HugePages Deprecated for PVM Guests as of Oracle VM Release 3.4.1
- 8.60 HugePages Does Not Display as Selected in Oracle VM Manager Web Interface
- 8.61 Kdump Service Hangs at Discovery of FCoE Device with Broadcom CNA on HP Servers
- 8.62 Kdump Service with UEK Release 4 Fails to Create Memory Dump on Cisco UCS B230 M2 Blade Server
- 8.63 Discovery of Oracle VM Server on FCoE LUN Fails Due to Interface Name
- 8.64 Do Not Discover Oracle VM Servers Earlier than Release 3.2.10
- 8.65 (SPARC Only) Cannot Export Virtual Appliance with Physical Disk Access
- 8.66 (SPARC Only) MTU Resets to the Default of 1500 After Server Power Off
- 8.67 Oracle VM Server Installer Fails When Modifying Swap Partitions
- 8.68 Kernel Startup is Slow after Upgrading to UEK4 on PVHVM Guests
- 8.69 Cannot Enable High Availability (HA) for Virtual Machines with HugePages
- 8.70 Kdump is Not Supported on FCoE SANs
- 8.71 Virtual Machines Hang at Boot if Grant Reference Request Too Large
- 8.72 Cannot Edit Running Virtual Machines with HugePages and HA Enabled
- 8.73 Import URL Cannot Exceed Maximum Character Length
- 8.74 SR-IOV Is Not a Supported Feature
- 8.75 Oracle VM Manager Upgrade Does Not Restore External Authentication Provider
- 8.76 Limit of 3 Virtual Machine Console Windows with Microsoft Internet Explorer
- 8.77 The kdump Service Cannot Mount the Root Partition if Zone Connection to EMC Storage Array
- 8.78 Oracle VM Server Hangs During Upgrade if Boot Partition Not Large Enough
- 8.79 GRO Must Be Disabled After an Upgrade When Routing/Bridging with IXGBE Driver
- 8.80 Change in Variable Name for the eventGetTypes SOAP Call using Oracle VM Web Services API
- 8.81 Restart Virtual Machines After Upgrade
- 8.82 LRO Setting Bridge Interface
- 8.83 Disable Transitional Update Repository
- 8.84 (X86 Only) SWIOTLB Buffer Errors When Using Jumbo Frames on Oracle VM Server
- 8.85 Operation Transactions
- 8.86 One Instance of Oracle VM Manager Web Interface Per Browser Session
- 8.87 IPv6 Updates On Some Microsoft Windows Guests Do Not Reflect in Oracle VM Manager
- 8.88 Incorrect Text Color After Acknowledging VM Errors
- 8.89 Unable to Copy Text or Take Screen Shots of Error Dialogs
- 8.90 Safari Web Browser on Windows is not Supported
- 8.91 Object Lock Prevents Some Operations
- 8.92 Unable to Configure NTP For All Servers
- 8.93 (x86 Only) Oracle VM Server Does Not Boot if Installed on a Multipath SAN Disk Greater Than 2.2 TB in Size
- 8.94 (x86 Only) Oracle VM Server Installer Goes To Black Screen After Running
/sbin/loader
- 8.95 (x86 Only) Oracle VM Server Installer Hangs Waiting for Hardware to Initialize
- 8.96 (x86 Only) Oracle VM Server Installer Hangs Examining Storage Devices For Large Number of LUNS
- 8.97 (x86 Only) Benign Error Message During Install: HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed
- 8.98 (x86 Only) Cannot Use Installation Media to Upgrade Oracle VM Server if Earlier
than Release 3.3.
x
- 8.99 (x86 Only) Oracle VM Server Upgrade From ULN or Oracle Public Yum Repositories is Restricted to Servers That Do Not Use Non-Native Packages
- 8.100 (x86 Only) Many ISCSI or Fibre Channel LUNs Require More Server Memory
- 8.101 Clustered Server Pools in Mixed Platform Environments Require NFS Access Groups To Be Configured
- 8.102 (SPARC Only) Cluster Recovery May Fail When Using NFSv3 For Server Pool File System
- 8.103 (x86 Only) Server BIOS Settings
- 8.104 (x86 Only) Oracle VM Server Does Not Support crashkernel=auto Boot Parameter
- 8.105 Kdump Core Collector Using Sparse Copy Fails
- 8.106 (x86 Only) Oracle VM Server Installation on Sun Fire X4800
- 8.107 (x86 Only) Installation of Oracle VM Server on some HP Server Hardware May Fail if Tape Drive is Attached
- 8.108 (x86 Only) Wake On Lan (WOL) Fails if Oracle VM Servers on Different Subnets
- 8.109 (x86 Only) Sun Fire X4170 Server Not Fenced During Cluster Failure
- 8.110 (x86 Only) Netconsole Unknown Error 524 During Oracle VM Server Start-up
- 8.111 (x86 Only) ACPI Buffer Error After Installing Oracle VM Server
- 8.112 Failed Server Evacuation Defined in DPM Policy Generates User Acknowledgeable Event
- 8.113 (SPARC Only) Serial Console Hangs During Installation of Oracle Solaris 11 on Virtual Machine
- 8.114 Editing Virtual Machine Configuration File Results in Unexpected Behavior
- 8.115 Concurrent Template Operations May Fail Due to Lock Issue
- 8.116 (SPARC Only) Wrong Error Message Returned When Importing A Template From An Incorrect URL
- 8.117 (x86 Only) Virtual Machine Fails to Restart On Another Server in the Cluster if ACPI is Enabled
- 8.118 (x86 Only) Oracle Solaris 10 Virtual Machine May Hang During Shutdown
- 8.119 (x86 Only) Virtual Machine Created with Network (PXE) Installation Does Proceed Beyond Pre Boot
- 8.120 (x86 Only) Maximum Memory to Start a PVM Guest is 470 GB
- 8.121 (x86 Only) Creating a PVM Guest Slow Using Local Storage
- 8.122 (x86 Only) Live Migration of a VM may be Affected by Guest Linux Kernel Version
- 8.123 (x86 Only) Improving Mouse Pointer Control in Virtual Machine Console
- 8.124 (x86 Only) Solaris 10 Kernel Panic on Some AMD Systems
- 8.125 (x86 Only) Solaris 10 Release 8/11 Guest Hangs at Boot
- 8.126 (x86 Only) Solaris 11 Guest With More Than 2 VCPUs Hangs at Boot
- 8.127 (x86 Only) Solaris 11 Release 2011.11 Guest Hangs at Boot
- 8.128 (x86 Only) Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 HVM Guests do Not Cleanly Shut Down
- 8.129 (SPARC Only) Need Actual Available Memory for Live Migration
- 8.130 (x86 Only) Network Card Limit in Virtual Machines
- 8.131 QLogic cLOM8214 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet NIC Initializes with Link State Down
- 8.132 Renaming of QLogic cLOM8214 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet NIC is Incorrect
- 8.133 (x86 Only) Incorrect ARP Reply When Using Jumbo Frames
- 8.134 (x86 Only) Changing Cluster Heartbeat Network Does Not Reflect New IP Address
- 8.135 NFSv4 Read/Write Delegation Not Supported
- 8.136 (x86 Only) Unclean File System Causes Errors When Used as a Server Pool File System
- 8.137 (SPARC Only) Agent Fails to Reconcile Multipath LUNS If Solaris I/O Multipathing is Disabled
- 8.138 (x86 Only) Size of New LUN on Server is Incorrect If an Existing LUN Is Unmapped First
- 8.139 (x86 Only) Remapping LUNs Causes Storage Refresh To Hang
- 8.140 (x86 Only) LUNs Must Be Cleaned Prior to Storage Repository Creation
- 8.141 NetApp ONTAP (8.2 c-mode) Operating System Does Not Work With Oracle VM
- 8.142 (x86 Only) Black Listing of System Disks for Legacy LSI MegaRAID Controllers Not Supported
- 8.143 (x86 Only) Blacklisting of System Disks for Multipathing Fails on HP Smart Array (CCISS) Disk Devices
- 8.144 (x86 Only) HP Smart Array CCISS Disk Devices Are Not Supported For Creation of Local Storage Repositories
- 8.145 (x86 Only) Multiple Paths Used in Multipath Environments on Oracle Pillar Axiom Storage
- 8.146 Refreshing a NAS-based File System Produces Invalid/Overlapping Exports
- 8.147 (x86 Only) Shared OCFS2 Cluster File System on Virtual Disk Not Supported
- 8.148 Virtual Disk Images Must Be Properly Aligned To The OCFS2 Block Size For Performance
- 8.149 Oracle VM Manager Command Line Interface Backspace Key
- 8.150 Oracle VM Manager Command Line Interface Allows THIN_CLONE cloneType On NFS
- 8.151 Untagged VLAN Interface Missing After Upgrade of Oracle VM Manager
- 9 Additional Software for Oracle VM