4.2 Bug Fixes in Oracle VM 3.4.2

The following notable bugs are fixed in Oracle VM Release 3.4.2:

  • Fixes an issue where multiple sets of PortUp and PortDown events are unnecessarily generated when a server is discovered or when the port on a server goes up or down, resulting in a slow down in performance on Oracle VM Manager. (23738392)

  • Fixes an issue where duplicate server scan events are generated when re-discovering a server, resulting in a slow down in performance on Oracle VM Manager. (2888398)

  • Updates to the Oracle VM Utilities to resolve some issues are now posted on My Oracle Support (MOS) at patch 13602094. (24303705, 24300124, 24300120)

  • Enables network configuration operations on a Xsigo port for Oracle Private Cloud Appliance. (22694975)

  • Fixes an issue where the block hotplug script does not account for gaps in used Loop devices. (22875089)

  • Fixes an issue where some Oracle VM Manager jobs fail with operations on Dell Storage with Dell multipath.conf. (22909259)

  • Adds the libxenstore and libxenstore-devel packages to the addons channel for the Oracle Linux Yum Server, so they can be used with Oracle Linux 6 guests. (22909892)

  • Fixes an issue where it takes an excessive amount of time to release memory from a guest during a live migration. (23095319)

  • Adds a new command to add, delete, or show routes on a given interface from the Oracle Private Cloud Appliance User Interface. (23154685)

  • Fixes an issue where a server cluster failure occurs in some cases during a server reboot, when managing a large number of LUNs. (23169165)

  • Fixes an issue where the VM console in the Oracle VM Manager Web Interface hangs during some live migration events. (23253588)

  • Fixes an issue where a DNS Round-Robin configuration forces NFS to be mounted multiple times due to multiple IP assignments. (23577814)

  • Enhancement added to the Xen hypervisor that makes devices assignable and unassignable. (23749204)

  • Adds /etc/grub.d/30_linux to the Oracle VM Server installation to enable bare metal Linux installs for some Cloud operators. (24348702)

  • Fixes an issue where a VM cannot start due to frequent duplicate Xend child processes. (24371183)

  • Fixes an issue where the storage_plugin_listFileSystems command is not returning complete discovery data to Oracle VM Manager. (24414865)

  • Fixes an issue where GRUB2 does not inherit the crashkernel parameters when upgrading Oracle VM Server from Release 3.2.x or 3.3.x to Release 3.4.2. If you have manually installed and configured the kdump service on Oracle VM Server Release 3.2.x or Release 3.3.x, and you then upgrade Oracle VM Server to Release 3.4.1, the kdump service no longer functions. See Confirm kdump Service Settings after Upgrading in the Oracle VM Installation and Upgrade Guide. (24512683)

  • Fixes an issue with yum upgrades from 3.2.10 or 3.2.11 due to the removal of the ql2xxx-firmware from Oracle VM Release 3.4. (24529773)

  • Fixes a Kdump failure and kernel panic in Oracle Server X5-8 with the QLogic 25Gb NIC. (24554631)

  • Fixes an issue where several VM related jobs cannot complete after an upgrade from Oracle VM Release 3.3.x. (23134128)

  • Fixes an issue where a user is unable to set more than 512GB of memory for Solaris 11 guests on Oracle VM Server for SPARC. (23206373)

  • Fixes an issue where some upgrades fail with the following message: Error upgrading core database, upgrade cannot continue! and the following entry in the log files: UpdateUserAndCertEntities does not exit. (23283190)

  • Fixes an issue where a user is unable to discover a server using the Oracle VM Manager Web Interface due to the use of uppercase alphabetic characters in the UUID. (23635359)

  • Fixes an issue where a user cannot login to Oracle VM Manager with an AUTHORIZED_GROUP and is using Microsoft Active Directory authentication. (23744937)

  • Fixes an issues where the Oracle VM Manager upgrade terminates in some cases shortly after running the ovm_preUpgrade script. (24009772)

  • Fixes an issue where a running VM is moved to a different shared repository. (24387377)