Oracle VM Release 3.3.3 includes separate patches for Oracle VM Manager, Oracle VM Server, and Oracle VM Agent for SPARC as follows:
Oracle VM Manager: patch ID
20492250
.Oracle VM Server: patch ID
20492240
.Oracle VM Agent for SPARC: patch ID
20492222
.
Download the patches from My Oracle Support.
The new features and enhancements in Oracle VM Release 3.3.3 include:
Infrastructure
Support for Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE): Oracle VM now includes drivers to detect Converged Network Adapters (CNA). These drivers make it possible to install Oracle VM Server into an FCoE SAN. (20140781)
Maximum vCPU limit: The maximum vCPU limit of 128 for Oracle VM Server for SPARC is removed in this release. (20576711)
Support of Converged Network Adapters: The Oracle VM Server installer is updated in this release to support more Converged Network Adapters (CNA) such as HP FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 536FLB Adapter, Broadcom 57840S CNA, etc. (20492419)
Updated hwdata package: The hwdata package has been updated to
hwdata-0.233-11.1.el6.noarch.rpm
to list recently released network adapters. (20854084)Updated OvmClient.jar library: The corporate signing authority for the
OvmClient.jar
library has been updated. (20488470)Updated virtual machine console packages: The
ovmcore-console-1.0-42.rpm
package has been added to the Oracle VM Manager Web Interface and is updated on the Oracle VM Manager ISO. (20138989)Oracle VM Server dracut packages: This release adds the
dracut-fips
package and thedracut-network
package to the Oracle VM Server ISO. This release also includes updates to thedracut-004
package and thedracut-kernel
package. (20829905)
Installation and Upgrades
Installer check before upgrading: As of this release, the Oracle VM Manager installation program now checks for sufficient
/tmp
space before starting an upgrade of Oracle VM. (20347269)Delete running jobs: The Oracle VM Manager upgrade script now allows you to delete running jobs so that the upgrade can proceed. (20103466)
Networking
Support for TCP-based NFS Repository Mounts: Repositories hosted on an NFS share are mounted using TCP by default, with the option to failback to UDP, in this release. (14692942)
Add Python networking package: This release adds the
python-ipaddr-2.1.9-3.el6.noarch.rpm
package to Oracle VM Server for improved IPv6 support. (20855848)
Performance
Improved navigation performance in the Oracle VM Manager Web Interface: This release provides improved performance when navigating to VLAN information. (20814204)
Quicker response times in the Oracle VM Manager Web Interface Health tab: This release provides improved performance when navigating through the Health tab. (20963394)
Retrieving available servers for virtual machines: This release improves the time it takes to retrieve a list of available servers for virtual machines. (20982855)
Improved performance when expanding tree nodes in the Oracle VM Manager Web Interface: This release provides improved performance when expanding a tree node that contains a large number of servers. (20305165)
Security
Oracle MySQL patch update: This release of Oracle VM includes the April 2015 Critical Patch Update for MySQL. (20916257)
Oracle WebLogic patch update: This release of Oracle VM includes the April 2015 Critical Patch Update for WebLogic. (20918659)
Oracle Java patch update: This release of Oracle VM includes the April 2015 Critical Patch Update for Java. (20918735)
UEK3 quarterly update: This release of Oracle VM includes the UEK3 quarterly update 5. (20594222)
Xen security advisories: The following Xen security advisories are included in this release:
XSA-136 (CVE-2015-4164)
XSA-134 (CVE-2015-4163)
XSA-135 (CVE-2015-3209)
Oracle VM Security Advisories
This release includes the following Oracle VM Security Advisories:
Table 2.1 Oracle VM Security Advisories
Advisory Identifier | Severity | Description |
---|---|---|
OVMSA-2015-0040 | Important | Oracle VM 3.3 kernel-uek security update |
OVMSA-2015-0054 | Moderate | Oracle VM 3.3 krb5 security update |
OVMSA-2015-0055 | Moderate | Oracle VM 3.3 glibc security update |
OVMSA-2015-0056 | Important | Oracle VM 3.3 kernel-uek security update |
OVMSA-2015-0057 | Critical | Oracle VM 3.3 Xen security update |
OVMSA-2015-0060 | Important | Oracle VM 3.3 kernel-uek security update |
OVMSA-2015-0064 | Important | Oracle VM 3.3 Xen security update |
OVMSA-2015-0065 | Moderate | Oracle VM 3.3 Openssl security update |
OVMSA-2015-0067 | Important | Oracle VM 3.3 Xen security update |
OVMSA-2015-0070 | Moderate | Oracle VM 3.3 Openssl security update |
OVMSA-2015-0071 | Important | Oracle VM 3.3 cups security update |
OVMSA-2015-0072 | Important | Oracle VM 3.3 kernel-uek security update |
OVMSA-2015-0073 | Moderate | Oracle VM 3.3 nss security update |