Release Notes for 3.4.6
E99523-01
November 2018
Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Installing and Upgrading Oracle VM
- 3 What's New in Oracle VM?
- 3.1 What's New in Oracle VM Release 3.4.6?
- 3.2 What's New in Oracle VM Release 3.4.5?
- 3.3 What's New in Oracle VM Release 3.4.4?
- 3.4 What's New in Oracle VM Release 3.4.3?
- 3.5 What's New in Oracle VM Release 3.4.2?
- 3.6 What's New in Oracle VM Release 3.4.1?
- 3.7 What's New in Oracle VM Release 3.3.5?
- 3.8 What's New in Oracle VM Release 3.3.4?
- 3.9 What's New in Oracle VM Release 3.3.3?
- 3.10 What's New in Oracle VM Release 3.3.2?
- 3.11 What's New in Oracle VM Release 3.3.1?
- 3.12 What's New in Oracle VM Release 3.2.1?
- 3.13 What's New in Oracle VM Release 3.1.1?
- 3.14 What's New in Oracle VM Release 3.0.3?
- 3.15 What's New in Oracle VM Release 3.0.2?
- 4 Notable Bug Fixes
- 4.1 Bug Fixes in Oracle VM 3.4.6
- 4.2 Bug Fixes in Oracle VM 3.4.5
- 4.3 Bug Fixes in Oracle VM 3.4.4
- 4.4 Bug Fixes in Oracle VM 3.4.3
- 4.5 Bug Fixes in Oracle VM 3.4.2
- 4.6 Bug Fixes in Oracle VM 3.4.1
- 4.7 Bug Fixes in Oracle VM 3.3.5
- 4.8 Bug Fixes in Oracle VM 3.3.4
- 4.9 Bug Fixes in Oracle VM 3.3.3
- 4.10 Bug Fixes in Oracle VM 3.3.2
- 4.11 Bug Fixes in Oracle VM 3.3.1
- 4.12 Bug Fixes in Oracle VM 3.2.1
- 4.13 Bug Fixes in Oracle VM 3.1.1
- 4.14 Bug Fixes in Oracle VM 3.0.3
- 5 Supported Guest Operating Systems
- 6 Oracle VM Manager Support for Previous Oracle VM Server Releases
- 7 Configuration Limits for Release 3.4
- 8 Deprecated and Removed Oracle VM Features
- 9 Known Limitations and Workarounds
- 9.1 Integration Between Oracle VM Server for SPARC and Oracle VM Manager
- 9.2 Upgrading Oracle VM Agent for SPARC Release 3.3.x/3.4.1/3.4.2 to Release 3.4.6 Fails
- 9.3 Editing a Bond Port Fails on Oracle VM Server for SPARC Running Oracle Solaris 11.4
- 9.4 Warning Messages Not Raised for Stopped Virtual Machines of PVM Domain Type After Upgrade to Release 3.4.6
- 9.5 Cannot Install or Upgrade Oracle VM Manager Release 3.4.5 or 3.4.6 on Oracle Linux 7 Update 6 Guest Virtual Machines
- 9.6 Attached Disks Not Visible at Startup on Oracle Solaris 11.4 Virtual Machine
- 9.7 Cannot Re-install Oracle VM Server Across Multiple Disks or LUNs using a Kickstart Configuration
- 9.8 Oracle VM Server Installation Hangs with RAID10 Boot Partition
- 9.9 Cannot Retrieve Information for File System Mounted on Invalid Mount Point
- 9.10 Cannot Configure the Oracle Solaris Support Repository using the Oracle VM Manager Web Interface
- 9.11 Backup Failure for the MySQL Database Repository
- 9.12 Unable to Login into the Oracle VM Web Services API
- 9.13 Incorrect PVM Migration Error Message Displayed when Secure VM Migration Enabled
- 9.14 Default VM Start Policy Is Different in Oracle VM Manager Command Line Interface and Oracle VM Manager Web Interface
- 9.15 Virtual Machine Fails to Boot with kexec
- 9.16 Missing Physical Disk Warning for Oracle VM Server Instance After Upgrading Oracle VM Manager
- 9.17 Suspend Error During Storage Live Migration
- 9.18 Cannot Change Memory Configuration of Running PVHVM Guests Based on CentOS 6
- 9.19 PVHVM Guests Based on CentOS 5 Do Not Start Successfully After Conversion from PVM
- 9.20 PVM Guests Based on CentOS 5 Do Not Start Successfully After Conversion from PVHVM
- 9.21 Guests Based on CentOS 5.11 Start with the Maximum Memory Configuration
- 9.22 Guests Based on CentOS 5 Display Incorrect Number of VNICs
- 9.23 Live Migrating Oracle Solaris Guests to Oracle VM Server Release 3.4.4 or Later Results in Guest Reboot
- 9.24 Cannot Remove Software RAID Devices from Oracle VM Manager
- 9.25 VNICs Deleted When Editing Virtual Machine
- 9.26 Enable High Availability Option is Disabled Due to Restart Option
- 9.27 Cannot Upgrade Oracle VM Manager Due to Presence of Temporary Files
- 9.28 Job List Excel Spreadsheet Name Contains Unexpected Characters
- 9.29 Oracle Linux 6 HVM Guest Virtual Machine with Hard Disk of 2TiB in Size Hangs on Boot
- 9.30 Kernel Panic when Assigning More Than 32 virtual CPUs to Oracle Linux 32-bit PVM Guests
- 9.31 Live Migration of Guest Virtual Machine Fails Due to Linux Kernel Version
- 9.32 PVHVM Guest Boot Delayed by Xen Balloon Driver
- 9.33 Oracle VM Server Cannot Boot from Software RAID Devices with Disks that are 2TB or Larger
- 9.34 Oracle VM Server Does Not Boot After Installation to LUN Targets Larger Than 2TB
- 9.35 Oracle VM Server Boot Delay and I/O Error Messages with Oracle ZFS Storage Array
- 9.36 FIPS Integrity Error Message for SSH Connections from Oracle VM Server
- 9.37 Incorrect MAC Address Displayed for Bond Port
- 9.38 Kernel Panic when Booting Guest Virtual Machine with 100 or more Virtual Disks
- 9.39 Different Default Values for the serverAffinityType when Creating Anti-Affinity Groups
- 9.40 Performance Impact when Less than 8 CPUs Configured for dom0
- 9.41 Upgrading Oracle VM Server from Release 3.2.10 to 3.3.4 and then to 3.4.2 fails
- 9.42 Logical Volume Manager (LVM) is enabled on Oracle VM Server Release 3.4.1
- 9.43 Btrfs Root File System Not Supported on PVM Guest Virtual Machines
- 9.44 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 and Later Not Supported For PVM Guest Virtual Machines
- 9.45 Cannot Connect to the Oracle VM Manager Web Interface with Microsoft Internet Explorer
- 9.46 The Virtual Machine Console Window in the Oracle VM Manager Web Interface Opens in the Background when using Microsoft Internet Explorer
- 9.47 Inconsistent Value for SPARC Domain Type
- 9.48 Integer Only Values for the statValue Option
- 9.49 Aborting a Server Discovery Operation Results in Server Listed with an Unknown Operational State
- 9.50 Automatic Discovery Operations can Conflict with Server Configuration Operations
- 9.51 Solaris 11 x86 Virtual Machine Disk Type Can Cause Kernel Panic on Boot
- 9.52 Solaris 10 x86 Virtual Machine Installation Fails To Boot
- 9.53 Oracle Linux 7 Virtual Machines Imported from a VirtualBox Virtual Appliance Do Not Start on Oracle VM
- 9.54 (x86 Only) IOStat Stays at 100% Util for Oracle Linux Virtual Machines After a Storage Migration
- 9.55 Serial Console Does Not Respond for Oracle Linux 7 HVM Virtual Machines
- 9.56 Error When Attaching CD-ROM Drives to Running HVM Virtual Machines
- 9.57 Deleting Bond Ports for VLANIF Interfaces Deletes the VLANIF
- 9.58 (SPARC Only) NFSv4 Delegation Interferes with Cluster Heartbeat, Using NFSv3 Results in RPC Error PROGRAM/VERSION MISMATCH
- 9.59 Cannot Import OVF Files into Oracle VirtualBox
- 9.60 Oracle VM Manager Cannot Receive Messages from SPARC Virtual Machines
- 9.61 Cannot Boot Oracle VM Server Installed on an HP DL380 Gen9 Server in UEFI mode
- 9.62 (x86 Only) Cannot Boot Oracle VM Server with Broadcom 57840S CNA Card After PXE Install
- 9.63 Changing to Dynamic Mode IP Address Assignment Does Not Rollback if the Server is Unable to Obtain an IP Address
- 9.64 Drag and Drop from Blank Space of Object
- 9.65 Error When Using the Administrator Tool in Parallel
- 9.66 Oracle VM Manager Command Line Interface TCP Port Conflicts With Port Reserved for NDMP
- 9.67 When A Virtual Machine Using A Shared Virtual Disk Is Moved To Another Repository, The Shared Virtual Disk Is Cloned
- 9.68 Unable to Remove a Storage Array if a File System Exists on a LUN
- 9.69 Cluster Failure After An Offline Server is Removed From the Cluster While Another Cluster Member is Offline
- 9.70 LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS 1078 is not supported on Oracle VM Server
- 9.71 (SPARC Only) Hot-added CD-ROM Device is Detected As Hard Disk
- 9.72 Fibre Channel LUNs Missing From Oracle VM Manager After Refresh
- 9.73 (SPARC Only) Size of Physical Disk in Oracle VM Manager Incorrect When LUN Size is Decreased on Storage Array
- 9.74 The Apparent Size of a Repository in Oracle VM Manager Web Interface Does Not Update Automatically
- 9.75 Virtual Disks Do Not Display on Solaris 10 Guests
- 9.76 Oracle Linux 5 Virtual Machines Converted from Physical Hosts Do Not Boot
- 9.77 SSL Exception in AdminServer Log File
- 9.78 Oracle VM Servers in a Server Pool Must Be at the Same Minor Version
- 9.79 Oracle VM Manager Displays Incorrect Details for ZFS Storage Appliances After Cluster Failover
- 9.80 Oracle VM Server Upgrade Not Possible with NetApp Storage plug-in
- 9.81 Oracle VM Manager Web Interface Incorrectly Displays Oracle VM Server Upgrade Required
- 9.82 The Oracle VM Manager Silent Install Option Using A YAML Configuration File Is Deprecated
- 9.83 Aborting An Oracle VM Server Upgrade Initiated By The UpgradeServers.py Script May Result In Inconsistent Reporting on Upgrade Status
- 9.84 Kdump On Oracle VM Server Only Supports Dump Levels 0 and 1
- 9.85 Network Receive Statistics For A Virtual Machine Are Invalid And Set To -1
- 9.86 CPU Affinity After Live Migration of Virtual Machine on Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) Systems
- 9.87 Virtual Machines Based on Oracle Solaris 11 Do Not Boot
- 9.88 Changing Domain Type from Xen HVM to Xen HVM PV Drivers Causes Informational Messages in AdminServer.log
- 9.89 Single-Stream TCP Throughput is Degraded for Guest Virtual Machines Running UEK Release 4
- 9.90 Error Partitioning Caused by Disk Label or Format in UEFI Mode
- 9.91 Kernel Panic when Booting Guest Virtual Machine with Oracle Solaris 11.2
- 9.92 Oracle VM Manager Web Interface Goes to Blank Screen with Mozilla Firefox on a Linux System
- 9.93 HugePages Deprecated for PVM Guests as of Oracle VM Release 3.4.1
- 9.94 HugePages Does Not Display as Selected in Oracle VM Manager Web Interface
- 9.95 Kdump Service Hangs at Discovery of FCoE Device with Broadcom CNA on HP Servers
- 9.96 Do Not Discover Oracle VM Servers Earlier than Release 3.2.10
- 9.97 (SPARC Only) Cannot Export Virtual Appliance with Physical Disk Access
- 9.98 (SPARC Only) MTU Resets to the Default of 1500 After Server Power Off
- 9.99 Oracle VM Server Installer Fails When Modifying Swap Partitions
- 9.100 Kernel Startup is Slow after Upgrading to UEK4 on PVHVM Guests
- 9.101 Cannot Enable High Availability (HA) for Virtual Machines with HugePages
- 9.102 Kdump is Not Supported on FCoE SANs
- 9.103 Cannot Edit Running Virtual Machines with HugePages and HA Enabled
- 9.104 Import URL Cannot Exceed Maximum Character Length
- 9.105 Performance Impact for Fewer than 8 CPUs Configured for dom0
- 9.106 Migration of PVHVM Guest Virtual Machines may be Affected by Linux Kernel Version
- 9.107 SR-IOV Is Not a Supported Feature
- 9.108 Oracle VM Manager Upgrade Does Not Restore External Authentication Provider
- 9.109 Limit of 3 Virtual Machine Console Windows with Microsoft Internet Explorer
- 9.110 Virtual Machine Migration Job Loop During Oracle VM Upgrade
- 9.111 The kdump Service Cannot Mount the Root Partition if Zone Connection to EMC Storage Array
- 9.112 Oracle VM Server Hangs During Upgrade if Boot Partition Not Large Enough
- 9.113 GRO Must Be Disabled After an Upgrade When Routing/Bridging with IXGBE Driver
- 9.114 Change in Variable Name for the eventGetTypes SOAP Call using Oracle VM Web Services API
- 9.115 Restart Virtual Machines After Upgrade
- 9.116 LRO Setting Bridge Interface
- 9.117 Disable Transitional Update Repository
- 9.118 (X86 Only) SWIOTLB Buffer Errors When Using Jumbo Frames on Oracle VM Server
- 9.119 Operation Transactions
- 9.120 One Instance of Oracle VM Manager Web Interface Per Browser Session
- 9.121 IPv6 Updates On Some Microsoft Windows Guests Do Not Reflect in Oracle VM Manager
- 9.122 Incorrect Text Color After Acknowledging VM Errors
- 9.123 Unable to Copy Text or Take Screen Shots of Error Dialogs
- 9.124 Safari Web Browser on Windows is not Supported
- 9.125 Object Lock Prevents Some Operations
- 9.126 Unable to Configure NTP For All Servers
- 9.127 (x86 Only) Oracle VM Server Installer Goes To Black Screen After Running
/sbin/loader - 9.128 (x86 Only) Oracle VM Server Installer Hangs Waiting for Hardware to Initialize
- 9.129 (x86 Only) Oracle VM Server Installer Hangs Examining Storage Devices For Large Number of LUNS
- 9.130 (x86 Only) Benign Error Message During Install: HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed
- 9.131 (x86 Only) Cannot Use Installation Media to Upgrade Oracle VM Server if Earlier
than Release 3.3.
x - 9.132 (x86 Only) Oracle VM Server Upgrade From ULN or Oracle Public Yum Repositories is Restricted to Servers That Do Not Use Non-Native Packages
- 9.133 (x86 Only) Many ISCSI or Fibre Channel LUNs Require More Server Memory
- 9.134 Clustered Server Pools in Mixed Platform Environments Require NFS Access Groups To Be Configured
- 9.135 (SPARC Only) Cluster Recovery May Fail When Using NFSv3 For Server Pool File System
- 9.136 (x86 Only) Server BIOS Settings
- 9.137 (x86 Only) Oracle VM Server Does Not Support crashkernel=auto Boot Parameter
- 9.138 Kdump Core Collector Using Sparse Copy Fails
- 9.139 (x86 Only) Oracle VM Server Installation on Sun Fire X4800
- 9.140 (x86 Only) Installation of Oracle VM Server on some HP Server Hardware May Fail if Tape Drive is Attached
- 9.141 (x86 Only) Wake On Lan (WOL) Fails if Oracle VM Servers on Different Subnets
- 9.142 (x86 Only) Sun Fire X4170 Server Not Fenced During Cluster Failure
- 9.143 (x86 Only) Netconsole Unknown Error 524 During Oracle VM Server Start-up
- 9.144 (x86 Only) ACPI Buffer Error After Installing Oracle VM Server
- 9.145 Failed Server Evacuation Defined in DPM Policy Generates User Acknowledgeable Event
- 9.146 (SPARC Only) Serial Console Hangs During Installation of Oracle Solaris 11 on Virtual Machine
- 9.147 Editing Virtual Machine Configuration File Results in Unexpected Behavior
- 9.148 Concurrent Template Operations May Fail Due to Lock Issue
- 9.149 (SPARC Only) Wrong Error Message Returned When Importing A Template From An Incorrect URL
- 9.150 (x86 Only) Virtual Machine Fails to Restart On Another Server in the Cluster if ACPI is Enabled
- 9.151 (x86 Only) Oracle Solaris 10 Virtual Machine May Hang During Shutdown
- 9.152 (x86 Only) Virtual Machine Created with Network (PXE) Installation Does Proceed Beyond Pre Boot
- 9.153 (x86 Only) Maximum Memory to Start a PVM Guest is 470 GB
- 9.154 (x86 Only) Creating a PVM Guest Slow Using Local Storage
- 9.155 (x86 Only) Live Migration of a VM may be Affected by Guest Linux Kernel Version
- 9.156 (x86 Only) Improving Mouse Pointer Control in Virtual Machine Console
- 9.157 (x86 Only) Solaris 10 Kernel Panic on Some AMD Systems
- 9.158 (x86 Only) Solaris 10 Release 8/11 Guest Hangs at Boot
- 9.159 (x86 Only) Solaris 11 Guest With More Than 2 VCPUs Hangs at Boot
- 9.160 (x86 Only) Solaris 11 Release 2011.11 Guest Hangs at Boot
- 9.161 (x86 Only) Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 HVM Guests do Not Cleanly Shut Down
- 9.162 (SPARC Only) Need Actual Available Memory for Live Migration
- 9.163 (x86 Only) Network Card Limit in Virtual Machines
- 9.164 QLogic cLOM8214 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet NIC Initializes with Link State Down
- 9.165 Renaming of QLogic cLOM8214 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet NIC is Incorrect
- 9.166 (x86 Only) Incorrect ARP Reply When Using Jumbo Frames
- 9.167 (x86 Only) Changing Cluster Heartbeat Network Does Not Reflect New IP Address
- 9.168 NFSv4 Read/Write Delegation Not Supported
- 9.169 (x86 Only) Unclean File System Causes Errors When Used as a Server Pool File System
- 9.170 (SPARC Only) Agent Fails to Reconcile Multipath LUNS If Solaris I/O Multipathing is Disabled
- 9.171 (x86 Only) Size of New LUN on Server is Incorrect If an Existing LUN Is Unmapped First
- 9.172 (x86 Only) Remapping LUNs Causes Storage Refresh To Hang
- 9.173 (x86 Only) LUNs Must Be Cleaned Prior to Storage Repository Creation
- 9.174 NetApp ONTAP (8.2 c-mode) Operating System Does Not Work With Oracle VM
- 9.175 (x86 Only) Black Listing of System Disks for Legacy LSI MegaRAID Controllers Not Supported
- 9.176 (x86 Only) Blacklisting of System Disks for Multipathing Fails on HP Smart Array (CCISS) Disk Devices
- 9.177 (x86 Only) HP Smart Array CCISS Disk Devices Are Not Supported For Creation of Local Storage Repositories
- 9.178 (x86 Only) Multiple Paths Used in Multipath Environments on Oracle Pillar Axiom Storage
- 9.179 Refreshing a NAS-based File System Produces Invalid/Overlapping Exports
- 9.180 (x86 Only) Shared OCFS2 Cluster File System on Virtual Disk Not Supported
- 9.181 Virtual Disk Images Must Be Properly Aligned To The OCFS2 Block Size For Performance
- 9.182 Oracle VM Manager Command Line Interface Backspace Key
- 9.183 Oracle VM Manager Command Line Interface Allows THIN_CLONE cloneType On NFS
- 9.184 Untagged VLAN Interface Missing After Upgrade of Oracle VM Manager
- 10 Additional Software for Oracle VM
- 11 Oracle VM Accessibility Features