Known Issues

Cross-CPU Live Migrations Between SPARC T7 Series Servers and SPARC M7 Series Servers and Older Platforms Require at Least the Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.2 Software on the Source Machine and the Target Machine

Domain Migration Might Fail Even Though Sufficient Memory in a Valid Layout Is Available on the Target System

Oracle Solaris 10 Guest Domains That Have Only One Virtual CPU Assigned Might Panic During a Live Migration

Domain Migrations From SPARC T4 Systems That Run System Firmware 8.3 to SPARC T5, SPARC M5, or SPARC M6 Systems Are Erroneously Permitted

ldm migrate -n Should Fail When Performing a Cross-CPU Migration From SPARC T5, SPARC M5, or SPARC M6 System to UltraSPARC T2 or SPARC T3 System

ldm list -o status on Target Control Domain Reports Bogus Migration Progress

Guest Domain Panics When Running the cputrack Command During a Migration to a SPARC T4 System

Guest Domain That Uses Cross-CPU Migration Reports Random Uptimes After the Migration Completes

nxge Panics When Migrating a Guest Domain That Has Hybrid I/O and Virtual I/O Virtual Network Devices

Live Migration of a Domain That Depends on an Inactive Master Domain on the Target Machine Causes ldmd to Fault With a Segmentation Fault

DRM Fails to Restore the Default Number of Virtual CPUs for a Migrated Domain When the Policy Is Removed or Expired

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

Migration of a Domain That Has an Enabled Default DRM Policy Results in a Target Domain Being Assigned All Available CPUs

Explicit Console Group and Port Bindings Are Not Migrated

Migration Can Fail to Bind Memory Even If the Target Has Enough Available

Cannot Connect to Migrated Domain's Console Unless vntsd Is Restarted

Cannot Migrate a Domain Between a System That Has EFI GPT Disk Labels and a System That Does Not Have EFI GPT Disk Labels

SR-IOV Issues

SPARC M5 and SPARC M6: Virtual Function Add Operation Triggers a PCIe Fabric Error Panic When Attempting to Enable SR-IOV on the PCIe Bus That Hosts rKVMS Devices

Fibre Channel Physical Function Configuration Changes Require Several Minutes to Complete

ldm remove-io Command Reports a Timeout and Fails to Remove the Last SR-IOV Virtual Function From an I/O Domain

Fibre Channel Physical Function Is Faulted by FMA and Disabled

Warnings Appear on Console When Creating Fibre Channel Virtual Functions

Fujitsu M10 Server Has Different SR-IOV Feature Limitations

Bugs Affecting the Oracle VM Server for SPARC Software

Oracle Solaris OS Bugs Affecting the Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.3 Software

Bugs Affecting the Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.3 Software

IOV Information Update Might Take Four Minutes After Running the cfgadm configure or cfgadm unconfigure Command

ovmtcreate Generates Incorrect OVF File If the Locale Is Not C

ldm add-vsan Fails After Replacing the PCIe Card

ovmtcreate Fails If the Service Domain Has Multiple Virtual Disk Servers

A Domain That Has Socket Constraints Cannot Be Re-Created From an XML File

DRM Is Unresponsive When a Domain Has Only a Few Virtual CPUs

Fujitsu M10 servers: Running ldm set-socket on an Active Domain Might Cause Unstable Operation of the Logical Domains Manager

Random device busy or ldm remove-io Command Failures While Removing One or More PCIe Buses

Fujitsu M10 servers: Inconsistent Socket Constraints Might Cause the Logical Domains Manager to Crash During CPU Removal

ldmpower Causes a Segmentation Fault of ldmd

Fatal Error in the PCIe Fabric Causes a Root Domain to Panic

Slow I/O on Virtual SCSI HBA Guest Domain When One of the Service Domains is Down With a Virtual SCSI HBA Timeout Set

Fujitsu M10 servers: ldm shrink-socket Command Removes Additional Memory If the Memory Block Is Unaligned

ldm list-group Shows the Same Memory and I/O In Both the /SYS/MB and Other Resource Groups

Virtual SCSI HBA Does Not See Dynamic LUN Changes Without a Reboot

Logical Domains Manager Should Not Rely on Polling to Obtain Configuration Status From the DIO Agent

vhba Should Support SCSI HBAs When MPxIO Is Enabled in the Service Domain

Suppress FRU-Monitor Alerts When PCI Bus Is Re-Assigned From the primary Domain to a Guest Domain

mpathadm Shows Incorrect Path State Output for a Virtual SCSI HBA When a Fibre Channel Cable Is Pulled

device busy Error When Attempting to Remove a PCIe Bus That Hosts an SES-Enabled Storage Device

rcm_daemon Might Emit a Message on the Console During an ldm remove-io Operation

Dynamic Bus Removal Should be Aware of Virtual SAN Devices Prior to Removing a PCIe Bus

After Dropping Into factory-default, Recovery Mode Fails If the System Boots From a Different Device Than the One Booted in the Previously Active Configuration

Panic When Using the ldm rm-io virtual-function Command to MPxIO That Contains a Virtual SCSI HBA

ixgbevf Nodes on an I/O Domain Are Reported as Disabled By the ipadm Command and Non-Existent By the ifconfig Command

HGXE Interfaces Are Unusable If Assigned by Using Direct I/O to an I/O Domain

Guest Domain eeprom Updates Are Lost if an ldm add-spconfig Operation Is Not Complete

Rebooting a Guest Domain With More Than 1000 Virtual Network Devices Results in a Panic

Oracle VM Server for SPARC No Longer Keeps Track of Freed MAC Addresses

Sun Storage 16 Gb Fibre Channel Universal HBA Firmware Does Not Support Bandwidth Controls

Incorrect Device Path for Fibre Channel Virtual Functions in a Root Domain

Issues Might Arise When FMA Detects Faulty Memory

DLMP Does Not Work in a Guest Domain on Top of a Virtual Network Device or an SR-IOV Virtual Function

Cannot Install the Oracle Solaris 11.1 OS Using an EFI GPT Disk Label on Single-Slice Virtual Disk

Guest Domain Panics at lgrp_lineage_add(mutex_enter: bad mutex, lp=10351178)

Misleading Messages Shown For InfiniBand SR-IOV Remove Operations

Resilient I/O Domain Should Support PCI Device Configuration Changes After the Root Domain Is Rebooted

Guest Domains in Transition State After Reboot of the primary Domain

Subdevices Under a PCIe Device Revert to an Unassigned Name

WARNING: ddi_intr_alloc: cannot fit into interrupt pool Means That Interrupt Supply Is Exhausted While Attaching I/O Device Drivers

ixgbevf Device in SR-IOV Domains Might Become Disabled When Rebooting the primary Domain

SPARC M5-32 and SPARC M6-32: LSI-SAS Controller Is Incorrectly Exported With SR-IOV

SPARC T5-8: Uptime Data Shows a Value of 0 for Some ldm List Commands

No Error Message When a Memory DR Add is Partially Successful

ldm init-system Command Might Not Correctly Restore a Domain Configuration on Which Physical I/O Changes Have Been Made

Control Domain Requires the Lowest Core in the System

Limit the Maximum Number of Virtual Functions That Can be Assigned to a Domain

Trying to Connect to Guest Domain Console While It Is Being Bound Might Cause Input to be Blocked

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

System Panics When Rebooting a primary Domain That Has a Very Large Number of Virtual Functions Assigned

Partial Core primary Fails to Permit Whole-Core DR Transitions

Cannot Use Oracle Solaris Hot-Plug Operations to Hot-Remove a PCIe Endpoint Device

DRM and ldm list Output Shows a Different Number of Virtual CPUs Than Are Actually in the Guest Domain

SPARC T3-1: Issue With Disks That Are Accessible Through Multiple Direct I/O Paths

Guest Domains Running Oracle Solaris 10: Memory DR Removal Operations With Multiple Plumbed NIU nxge Instances Can Hang Indefinitely and Never Complete

Using the ldm stop -a Command on Domains in a Master-Slave Relationship Leaves the Slave With the stopping Flag Set

Dynamic Reconfiguration of MTU Values of Virtual Network Devices Sometimes Fails

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

Logical Domains Manager Does Not Start If the Machine Is Not Networked and an NIS Client Is Running

Sometimes, Executing the uadmin 1 0 Command From a Logical Domains System Does Not Return the System to the OK Prompt

Simultaneous Net Installation of Multiple Domains Fails When in a Common Console Group

OpenBoot PROM Variables Cannot be Modified by the eeprom Command When the Logical Domains Manager Is Running

Cannot Set Security Keys With Logical Domains Running

Behavior of the ldm stop-domain Command Can Be Confusing

Resolved Issues

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This section contains general issues and specific bugs concerning the Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.3 software.