Release Notes for 3.3.5
E81583-01
January 2017
Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 What's New in Oracle VM?
- 2.1 What's New in Oracle VM Release 3.3.5?
- 2.2 What's New in Oracle VM Release 3.3.4?
- 2.3 What's New in Oracle VM Release 3.3.3?
- 2.4 What's New in Oracle VM Release 3.3.2?
- 2.5 What's New in Oracle VM Release 3.3.1?
- 2.6 What's New in Oracle VM Release 3.2.1?
- 2.7 What's New in Oracle VM Release 3.1.1?
- 2.8 What's New in Oracle VM Release 3.0.3?
- 2.9 What's New in Oracle VM Release 3.0.2?
- 3 Notable Bug Fixes
- 4 Supported Guest Operating Systems
- 5 Configuration Limits
- 6 Known Limitations and Workarounds
- 6.1 Performance Impact for Less than 8 CPUs Configured for dom0
- 6.2 Migration of PVHVM Guest Virtual Machines may be Affected by Linux Kernel Version
- 6.3 SR-IOV Is Not a Supported Feature
- 6.4 Oracle VM Manager Upgrade Does Not Restore External Authentication Provider
- 6.5 Limit of 3 Virtual Machine Console Windows with Microsoft Internet Explorer
- 6.6 Oracle VM Servers in a Server Pool Must Be at the Same Minor Version
- 6.7 The kdump Service Cannot Mount the Root Partition if Zone Connection to EMC Storage Array
- 6.8 Oracle VM Server Hangs During Upgrade if Boot Partition Not Large Enough
- 6.9 Virtual Machine Migration Job Loop During Oracle VM Upgrade
- 6.10 Solaris DLMP Service Unavailable
- 6.11 PVHVM Guest Virtual Machines Become Unresponsive After Live Migration
- 6.12 GRO Must Be Disabled After an Upgrade When Routing/Bridging with IXGBE Driver
- 6.13 Change in Variable Name for the eventGetTypes SOAP Call using Oracle VM Web Services API
- 6.14 Restart Virtual Machines After Upgrade
- 6.15 LRO Setting Bridge Interface
- 6.16 Disable Transitional Update Repository
- 6.17 (X86 Only) SWIOTLB Buffer Errors When Using Jumbo Frames on Oracle VM Server
- 6.18 Operation Transactions
- 6.19 One Instance of Oracle VM Manager Web Interface Per Browser Session
- 6.20 Cannot Connect to VM Console After Oracle VM Manager Reinstall With Same UUID
- 6.21 IPv6 Updates On Some Microsoft Windows Guests Do Not Reflect in Oracle VM Manager
- 6.22 Incorrect Text Color After Acknowledging VM Errors
- 6.23 Unable to Copy Text or Take Screen Shots of Error Dialogs
- 6.24 Safari Web Browser on Windows is not Supported
- 6.25 Data Model Refreshes in the User Interface
- 6.26 Object Lock Prevents Some Operations
- 6.27 Aborting Some Jobs can Lead to Inconsistencies Between Oracle VM Manager and an Oracle VM Server
- 6.28 Unable to Configure NTP For All Servers
- 6.29 The Edit SAN Server Dialog Shows an Access Tab when Editing Fibre Channel Storage
- 6.30 Some x86 Specific Virtual Machine Parameters Are Modifiable for Guests Running On SPARC
- 6.31 Installer Text for Solaris 10 is Unreadable in the Serial Console
- 6.32 VLAN MTU is Not Set To Base Port Default When DHCP Configuration Fails
- 6.33 Use the Hide Message and Log Message Tools To Hide Sensitive Information When Sending VM Messages
- 6.34 (x86 Only) UEFI Mode Not Supported for Oracle VM Server
- 6.35 (x86 Only) Oracle VM Server Does Not Boot if Installed on a Multipath SAN Disk Greater Than 2.2 TB in Size
- 6.36 (x86 Only) Oracle VM Server Installer Goes To Black Screen After Running
/sbin/loader - 6.37 (x86 Only) Oracle VM Server Installer Hangs Waiting for Hardware to Initialize
- 6.38 (x86 Only) Oracle VM Server Installer Hangs Examining Storage Devices For Large Number of LUNS
- 6.39 (x86 Only) Benign Error Message During Install: HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed
- 6.40 (x86 Only) Oracle VM Server Upgrade From CDROM Not Supported For Releases Prior to 3.3
- 6.41 (x86 Only) Oracle VM Server Upgrade From ULN or Oracle Public Yum Repositories is Restricted to Servers That Do Not Use Non-Native Packages
- 6.42 (x86 Only) Many ISCSI or Fibre Channel LUNs Require More Server Memory
- 6.43 Unable to Edit Virtual IP Field After A Server Pool is Created
- 6.44 Clustered Server Pools in Mixed Platform Environments Require NFS Access Groups To Be Configured
- 6.45 Server Kill Failure Leaves A Server In Stopping State
- 6.46 (SPARC Only) Cluster Recovery May Fail When Using NFSv3 For Server Pool File System
- 6.47 (x86 Only) Server BIOS Settings
- 6.48 (x86 Only) Oracle VM Server Does Not Support crashkernel=auto Boot Parameter
- 6.49 Kdump Core Collector Using Sparse Copy Fails
- 6.50 Kdump Over Network Using a XEN Bridged Interface Fails
- 6.51 Kdump Fails if Dump Location Changes
- 6.52 Kdump Out of Memory For Servers With more than 1 TB of Memory
- 6.53 Kdump Kernel Hangs Inserting the megaraid_sas Module
- 6.54 (x86 Only) Oracle VM Server Installation Fails on EUFI Partitioned Disk
- 6.55 (x86 Only) Oracle VM Server Installation on Sun Fire X4800
- 6.56 (x86 Only) Installation of Oracle VM Server on some HP Server Hardware May Fail if Tape Drive is Attached
- 6.57 (x86 Only) Wake On Lan (WOL) Fails if Oracle VM Servers on Different Subnets
- 6.58 (x86 Only) Inconsistent Master Role Assignment after Cluster Failure
- 6.59 (x86 Only) Sun Fire X4170 Server Not Fenced During Cluster Failure
- 6.60 (x86 Only) Netconsole Error During Oracle VM Server Start-up, Unknown Error 524
- 6.61 (x86 Only) ACPI Buffer Error After Installing Oracle VM Server
- 6.62 (x86 Only) Radeon Ring Test Failed Error On Boot Resulting in Disabled GPU Acceleration
- 6.63 NVMe Devices Not Supported
- 6.64 DPM Fails To Power On Server When Threshold Reached
- 6.65 Failed Server Evacuation Defined in DPM Policy Generates User Acknowledgeable Event
- 6.66 Take Ownership of Oracle VM Server Fails with OVMRU_000009E Server Message
- 6.67 (SPARC Only) Uninstall of Oracle VM Agent on an Oracle VM Server in a Clustered Server Pool Fails To Unconfigure Cluster
- 6.68 Oracle Linux 7 and RedHat Enterprise Linux 7 Not Supported For PV Guests
- 6.69 (SPARC Only) Serial Console Hangs During Installation of Oracle Solaris 11 on Virtual Machine
- 6.70 Editing Virtual Machine Configuration File Results in Unexpected Behavior
- 6.71 Concurrent Template Operations May Fail Due to Lock Issue
- 6.72 (SPARC Only) Wrong Error Message Returned When Importing A Template From An Incorrect URL
- 6.73 Live Migration Fails but Oracle VM Manager Reports Running Virtual Machine on Target Oracle VM Server
- 6.74 (x86 Only) Virtual Machine Fails to Restart On Another Server in the Cluster if ACPI is Enabled
- 6.75 (x86 Only) Oracle Solaris 10 Virtual Machine May Hang During Shutdown
- 6.76 (x86 Only) Virtual Machine Created with Network (PXE) Installation Does Proceed Beyond Pre Boot
- 6.77 (x86 Only) Hardware Requirements for Hardware Virtualized Guests
- 6.78 (x86 Only) Maximum Memory to Start a PVM Guest is 470 GB
- 6.79 (x86 Only) 1 GB Huge Page Support On HVM Fails, 2 MB Pages Are Created Instead
- 6.80 (x86 Only) Creating a PVM Guest Slow Using Local Storage
- 6.81 (x86 Only) Virtual CDROM in PVHVM Guests not Initialized as IDE Device
- 6.82 (x86 Only) Live Migration of a VM may be Affected by Guest Linux Kernel Version
- 6.83 (x86 Only) Limitations for Hot-Changing Number of Virtual CPUs
- 6.84 (x86 Only) Improving Mouse Pointer Control in Virtual Machine Console
- 6.85 (x86 Only) Solaris 10 Kernel Panic on Some AMD Systems
- 6.86 (x86 Only) Solaris 10 Release 8/11 Guest Hangs at Boot
- 6.87 (x86 Only) Solaris 11 Guest With More Than 2 VCPUs Hangs at Boot
- 6.88 (x86 Only) Solaris 11 Release 2011.11 Guest Hangs at Boot
- 6.89 (x86 Only) Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 HVM Guests do Not Cleanly Shut Down
- 6.90 (SPARC Only) Memory Size Mismatch Between Virtual Machine and Oracle VM Manager After a Hot Add or Remove
- 6.91 (SPARC Only) Need Actual Available Memory for Live Migration
- 6.92 (x86 Only) Changing VM Type and Disabling Huge Pages at the Same Time Fails
- 6.93 (x86 Only) Network Card Limit in Virtual Machines
- 6.94 (x86 Only) QLogic QLE8242 CNA Card is Not Supported On Oracle VM Server
- 6.95 QLogic cLOM8214 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet NIC Initializes with Link State Down
- 6.96 Renaming of QLogic cLOM8214 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet NIC is Incorrect
- 6.97 (x86 Only) TPA disabled for Broadcom 10 Gigabit Ethernet
- 6.98 (x86 Only) Broadcom BCM5754 Gigabit Ethernet Does Not Support Jumbo Frames
- 6.99 (x86 Only) Incorrect ARP Reply When Using Jumbo Frames
- 6.100 (x86 Only) ARP Packet Checksum Errors
- 6.101 (x86 Only) Changing Cluster Heartbeat Network Does Not Reflect New IP Address
- 6.102 NFSv4 Read/Write Delegation Not Supported
- 6.103 (x86 Only) Unclean File System Causes Errors When Used as a Server Pool File System
- 6.104 (SPARC Only) Agent Fails to Reconcile Multipath LUNS If Solaris I/O Multipathing is Disabled
- 6.105 (x86 Only) Size of New LUN on Server is Incorrect If an Existing LUN Is Unmapped First
- 6.106 (x86 Only) Remapping LUNs Causes Storage Refresh To Hang
- 6.107 Refresh Servers Should Only Be Used For Non-Uniform Exports
- 6.108 (x86 Only) LUNs Must Be Cleaned Prior to Storage Repository Creation
- 6.109 NetApp ONTAP (8.2 c-mode) Operating System Does Not Work With Oracle VM
- 6.110 (x86 Only) Black Listing of System Disks for Legacy LSI MegaRAID Controllers Not Supported
- 6.111 (x86 Only) Blacklisting of System Disks for Multipathing Fails on HP Smart Array (CCISS) Disk Devices
- 6.112 (x86 Only) HP Smart Array CCISS Disk Devices Are Not Supported For Creation of Local Storage Repositories
- 6.113 Multi-homed NFS Shares Are Not Supported
- 6.114 (x86 Only) Multipath SAN Boot with Single Path Causes Kernel Panic or File System to be Read-Only
- 6.115 (x86 Only) Multiple Paths Used in Multipath Environments on Oracle Pillar Axiom Storage
- 6.116 Refreshing a NAS-based File System Produces Invalid/Overlapping Exports
- 6.117 (x86 Only) SAS Disks Only Supported in Local Configuration
- 6.118 Errors Occur when Storage Plug-in Versions Do Not Match Oracle VM Server Version
- 6.119 (x86 Only) Shared OCFS2 Cluster File System on Virtual Disk Not Supported
- 6.120 Virtual Disk Images Must Be Properly Aligned To The OCFS2 Block Size For Performance
- 6.121 Oracle VM Manager Command Line Interface Backspace Key
- 6.122 Oracle VM Manager Command Line Interface create repositoryexport Command Offers Non-Configurable Option
- 6.123 Oracle VM Manager Command Line Interface create vmclonestorageMapping Allows THIN_CLONE cloneType On NFS
- 6.124 No Default Value Set For Access Port When Using create storagearray
- 6.125 During Upgrade Other Users Must Not Be Logged Into the Oracle VM Manager Host
- 6.126 Temporary Files Must Be Manually Deleted After Upgrade of Oracle VM Manager
- 6.127 Jobs and Some Events Are Not Inherited After Upgrade
- 6.128 The P2V Conversion Utility is Not Available on the Oracle VM Server ISO
- 6.129 Unicode is Not Supported in Assemblies
- 6.130 XML Tags in Object Names and Description Cause Errors When Using the REST WS-API With XML
- 6.131 Untagged VLAN Interface Missing After Upgrade of Oracle VM Manager