4.2 Bug Fixes in Oracle VM 3.4.3

The following notable bugs are fixed in Oracle VM Release 3.4.3:

  • Fixes an issue where Link Local Discovery Protocol (LLDP) packages are enabled by default on Oracle VM Server. These packages are not required, and are disabled by default in this release. (25254072)

  • Fixes an issue where the Oracle VM Server discovery process fails due to the Oracle VM Manager Yum repository configuration. (25107129)

  • Fixes an issue where Desktop Bus (D-Bus) support is not available as part of the libvirt package that is supplied with Oracle VM Server. (25035614)

  • Fixes an issue where you are unable to configure CPU pinning for a running virtual machine. As a result, there is no longer a requirement to stop and then start the virtual machine for the configuration to take effect. (24938500)

  • Fixes an issue where the Oracle VM Agent is unable to distinguish local root disk partitions from LUN disk names when there are a large number of LUNs on the system. (25261502)

  • Fixes an issue where slow response times are encountered when rescanning physical LUNs on Oracle VM Servers. (25105813)

  • Fixes an issue where the vmcore memory size on the Management Domain (dom0) exceeds the total memory allocated to the dom0 . (24842742)

  • Fixes an issue where instances of Oracle VM Server are not booting after installation to LUN targets larger than 2TB in size. (24811512)

  • Fixes an issue where Guest VM creation is slow due an issue in the XENMEM_populate_physmap macro resulting in Xend 100% CPU usage. (24738858)

  • Fixes an issue where MD RAID devices are disabled during Oracle VM Server upgrades. (24676299)

  • Fixes an issue where importing a compressed virtual machine template may result in large system image files once the templates are unpacked. (23594530)

  • Fixes an issue where you are unable to create kickstart configurations that assemble software RAID devices during the Oracle VM Server installation. (22204542)

  • Fixes an issue where Oracle VM Server is unable to present software RAID devices to Oracle VM Manager. (21910748)

  • Improves prompts used when changing the password for the MySQL root password to ensure instructions are clear. (25485730)

  • Fixes an issue where you are unable to update the MySQL root password in the database so that it matches the MySQL root password that you set with the Oracle VM Manager Administrator Tool. (22973573)

  • Fixes an issue where the Edit Virtual Machine dialog does not load vNICs in the correct order. (25904204)

  • Fixes an issue where the Export to Excel option on the Jobs tab is unresponsive. (24805469)

  • Fixes an issue where you may experience delays when rescanning physical disks from Oracle VM Manager. (25073132)

  • Fixes an issue where Oracle VM Manager miss-interprets the on_crash parameter in the vm.cfg when the repository is refreshed. (25060508)

  • Fixes an issue where Oracle VM ULN and public ULN channels do not contain the latest tzdata package. The tzdata package is now updated to tzdata-2017b-1.el6.noarch.rpm. (24847941)

  • Enhances the Oracle VM Agent to automatically include existing vSwitches to the Oracle VM Agent network database. (18508248)

  • Fixes an issue where memory release is unacceptably slow during graceful VM shutdown. (20816669)

  • Fixes an issue where the Kdump service fails to start on the user domain (domU). (19807079)