• Title and Copyright Information
• 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?
  • 3.2 What's New in Oracle VM Release 3.4.6.2?
  • 3.3 What's New in Oracle VM Release 3.4.6.1?
  • 3.4 What's New in Oracle VM Release 3.4.6?
  • 3.5 What's New in Oracle VM Release 3.4.5?
  • 3.6 What's New in Oracle VM Release 3.4.4?
  • 3.7 What's New in Oracle VM Release 3.4.3?
  • 3.8 What's New in Oracle VM Release 3.4.2?
  • 3.9 What's New in Oracle VM Release 3.4.1?
• 4 Notable Bug Fixes
  • 4.1 Bug Fixes in Oracle VM 3.4.6.3
  • 4.2 Bug Fixes in Oracle VM 3.4.6.2
  • 4.3 Bug Fixes in Oracle VM 3.4.6.1
  • 4.4 Bug Fixes in Oracle VM 3.4.6
  • 4.5 Bug Fixes in Oracle VM 3.4.5
  • 4.6 Bug Fixes in Oracle VM 3.4.4
  • 4.7 Bug Fixes in Oracle VM 3.4.3
  • 4.8 Bug Fixes in Oracle VM 3.4.2
  • 4.9 Bug Fixes in Oracle VM 3.4.1
• 5 Supported Guest Operating Systems
  • 5.1 Oracle VM Server for x86 Supported Guest Operating Systems
  • 5.2 Oracle VM Server for SPARC 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
  • 8.1 Removed Features in 3.4.6
  • 8.2 Deprecated Features in 3.4.6
• 9 Known Limitations and Workarounds
  • 9.1
    • 9.1.1 Integration Between Oracle VM Server for SPARC and Oracle VM Manager
  • 9.2 Known Issues and Workarounds
    • 9.2.1 After Upgrading To Release 3.4.6 Unable To Log Into the Oracle VM Manager Web Interface Using Custom Certificates
    • 9.2.2 Oracle VM Server Virtual Machine Fails To Reboot After Saving vmcore
    • 9.2.3 Server Operation Succeeded But Job Failed Due to a Late Lock Exception
    • 9.2.4 Upgrading Oracle VM Agent for SPARC Release 3.3.x/3.4.1/3.4.2 to Release 3.4.6 Fails
    • 9.2.5 Editing a Bond Port Fails on Oracle VM Server for SPARC Running Oracle Solaris 11.4
    • 9.2.6 Cannot Install or Upgrade Oracle VM Manager Release 3.4.5 or 3.4.6 on Oracle Linux 7 Update 6 Guest Virtual Machines
    • 9.2.7 Attached Disks Not Visible at Startup on Oracle Solaris 11.4 Virtual Machine
  • 9.3 Known Issues and Workarounds
    • 9.3.1 Cannot Re-install Oracle VM Server Across Multiple Disks or LUNs using a Kickstart Configuration
    • 9.3.2 Oracle VM Server Installation Hangs with RAID10 Boot Partition
    • 9.3.3 Cannot Retrieve Information for File System Mounted on Invalid Mount Point
    • 9.3.4 Cannot Configure the Oracle Solaris Support Repository using the Oracle VM Manager Web Interface
    • 9.3.5 Backup Failure for the MySQL Database Repository
    • 9.3.6 Unable to Login into the Oracle VM Web Services API
    • 9.3.7 Incorrect PVM Migration Error Message Displayed when Secure VM Migration Enabled
    • 9.3.8 Default VM Start Policy Is Different in Oracle VM Manager Command Line Interface and Oracle VM Manager Web Interface
    • 9.3.9 Virtual Machine Fails to Boot with kexec
  • 9.4 Known Issues and Workarounds
    • 9.4.1 Missing Physical Disk Warning for Oracle VM Server Instance After Upgrading Oracle VM Manager
    • 9.4.2 Suspend Error During Storage Live Migration
    • 9.4.3 Cannot Change Memory Configuration of Running PVHVM Guests Based on CentOS 6
    • 9.4.4 PVHVM Guests Based on CentOS 5 Do Not Start Successfully After Conversion from PVM
    • 9.4.5 PVM Guests Based on CentOS 5 Do Not Start Successfully After Conversion from PVHVM
    • 9.4.6 Guests Based on CentOS 5.11 Start with the Maximum Memory Configuration
    • 9.4.7 Guests Based on CentOS 5 Display Incorrect Number of VNICs
    • 9.4.8 Live Migrating Oracle Solaris Guests to Oracle VM Server Release 3.4.4 or Later Results in Guest Reboot
  • 9.5 Known Issues and Workarounds
    • 9.5.1 Cannot Remove Software RAID Devices from Oracle VM Manager
    • 9.5.2 VNICs Deleted When Editing Virtual Machine
    • 9.5.3 Enable High Availability Option is Disabled Due to Restart Option
    • 9.5.4 Cannot Upgrade Oracle VM Manager Due to Presence of Temporary Files
    • 9.5.5 Job List Excel Spreadsheet Name Contains Unexpected Characters
    • 9.5.6 Oracle Linux 6 HVM Guest Virtual Machine with Hard Disk of 2TiB in Size Hangs on Boot
    • 9.5.7 Kernel Panic when Assigning More Than 32 virtual CPUs to Oracle Linux 32-bit PVM Guests
    • 9.5.8 Live Migration of Guest Virtual Machine Fails Due to Linux Kernel Version
    • 9.5.9 PVHVM Guest Boot Delayed by Xen Balloon Driver
    • 9.5.10 Oracle VM Server Cannot Boot from Software RAID Devices with Disks that are 2TB or Larger
    • 9.5.11 Oracle VM Server Does Not Boot After Installation to LUN Targets Larger Than 2TB
    • 9.5.12 Oracle VM Server Boot Delay and I/O Error Messages with Oracle ZFS Storage Array
    • 9.5.13 FIPS Integrity Error Message for SSH Connections from Oracle VM Server
    • 9.5.14 Incorrect MAC Address Displayed for Bond Port
  • 9.6 Known Issues and Workarounds
    • 9.6.1 Kernel Panic when Booting Guest Virtual Machine with 100 or more Virtual Disks
    • 9.6.2 Different Default Values for the serverAffinityType when Creating Anti-Affinity Groups
    • 9.6.3 Performance Impact when Less than 8 CPUs Configured for dom0
    • 9.6.4 Upgrading Oracle VM Server from Release 3.2.10 to 3.3.4 and then to 3.4.2 fails
    • 9.6.5 Logical Volume Manager (LVM) is enabled on Oracle VM Server Release 3.4.1
    • 9.6.6 Btrfs Root File System Not Supported on PVM Guest Virtual Machines
    • 9.6.7 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 and Later Not Supported For PVM Guest Virtual Machines
  • 9.7 Known Issues and Workarounds
    • 9.7.1 Cannot Connect to the Oracle VM Manager Web Interface with Microsoft Internet Explorer
    • 9.7.2 The Virtual Machine Console Window in the Oracle VM Manager Web Interface Opens in the Background when using Microsoft Internet Explorer
    • 9.7.3 Inconsistent Value for SPARC Domain Type
    • 9.7.4 Integer Only Values for the statValue Option
    • 9.7.5 Aborting a Server Discovery Operation Results in Server Listed with an Unknown Operational State
    • 9.7.6 Automatic Discovery Operations can Conflict with Server Configuration Operations
    • 9.7.7 Solaris 11 x86 Virtual Machine Disk Type Can Cause Kernel Panic on Boot
    • 9.7.8 Solaris 10 x86 Virtual Machine Installation Fails To Boot
    • 9.7.9 Oracle Linux 7 Virtual Machines Imported from a VirtualBox Virtual Appliance Do Not Start on Oracle VM
    • 9.7.10 (x86 Only) IOStat Stays at 100% Util for Oracle Linux Virtual Machines After a Storage Migration
    • 9.7.11 Serial Console Does Not Respond for Oracle Linux 7 HVM Virtual Machines
    • 9.7.12 Error When Attaching CD-ROM Drives to Running HVM Virtual Machines
    • 9.7.13 Deleting Bond Ports for VLANIF Interfaces Deletes the VLANIF
    • 9.7.14 (SPARC Only) NFSv4 Delegation Interferes with Cluster Heartbeat, Using NFSv3 Results in RPC Error PROGRAM/VERSION MISMATCH
    • 9.7.15 Cannot Import OVF Files into Oracle VirtualBox
    • 9.7.16 Oracle VM Manager Cannot Receive Messages from SPARC Virtual Machines
    • 9.7.17 Cannot Boot Oracle VM Server Installed on an HP DL380 Gen9 Server in UEFI mode
    • 9.7.18 (x86 Only) Cannot Boot Oracle VM Server with Broadcom 57840S CNA Card After PXE Install
    • 9.7.19 Changing to Dynamic Mode IP Address Assignment Does Not Rollback if the Server is Unable to Obtain an IP Address
    • 9.7.20 Drag and Drop from Blank Space of Object
    • 9.7.21 Error When Using the Administrator Tool in Parallel
    • 9.7.22 Oracle VM Manager Command Line Interface TCP Port Conflicts With Port Reserved for NDMP
    • 9.7.23 When A Virtual Machine Using A Shared Virtual Disk Is Moved To Another Repository, The Shared Virtual Disk Is Cloned
    • 9.7.24 Unable to Remove a Storage Array if a File System Exists on a LUN
    • 9.7.25 Cluster Failure After An Offline Server is Removed From the Cluster While Another Cluster Member is Offline
    • 9.7.26 LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS 1078 is not supported on Oracle VM Server
    • 9.7.27 (SPARC Only) Hot-added CD-ROM Device is Detected As Hard Disk
    • 9.7.28 Fibre Channel LUNs Missing From Oracle VM Manager After Refresh
    • 9.7.29 (SPARC Only) Size of Physical Disk in Oracle VM Manager Incorrect When LUN Size is Decreased on Storage Array
    • 9.7.30 The Apparent Size of a Repository in Oracle VM Manager Web Interface Does Not Update Automatically
    • 9.7.31 Virtual Disks Do Not Display on Solaris 10 Guests
    • 9.7.32 Oracle Linux 5 Virtual Machines Converted from Physical Hosts Do Not Boot
    • 9.7.33 SSL Exception in AdminServer Log File
    • 9.7.34 Oracle VM Servers in a Server Pool Must Be at the Same Minor Version
    • 9.7.35 Oracle VM Manager Displays Incorrect Details for ZFS Storage Appliances After Cluster Failover
    • 9.7.36 Oracle VM Server Upgrade Not Possible with NetApp Storage plug-in
    • 9.7.37 Oracle VM Manager Web Interface Incorrectly Displays Oracle VM Server Upgrade Required
    • 9.7.38 The Oracle VM Manager Silent Install Option Using A YAML Configuration File Is Deprecated
    • 9.7.39 Aborting An Oracle VM Server Upgrade Initiated By The UpgradeServers.py Script May Result In Inconsistent Reporting on Upgrade Status
    • 9.7.40 Kdump On Oracle VM Server Only Supports Dump Levels 0 and 1
    • 9.7.41 Network Receive Statistics For A Virtual Machine Are Invalid And Set To -1
    • 9.7.42 CPU Affinity After Live Migration of Virtual Machine on Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) Systems
    • 9.7.43 Virtual Machines Based on Oracle Solaris 11 Do Not Boot
    • 9.7.44 Changing Domain Type from Xen HVM to Xen HVM PV Drivers Causes Informational Messages in AdminServer.log
    • 9.7.45 Single-Stream TCP Throughput is Degraded for Guest Virtual Machines Running UEK Release 4
    • 9.7.46 Error Partitioning Caused by Disk Label or Format in UEFI Mode
    • 9.7.47 Kernel Panic when Booting Guest Virtual Machine with Oracle Solaris 11.2
    • 9.7.48 Oracle VM Manager Web Interface Goes to Blank Screen with Mozilla Firefox on a Linux System
    • 9.7.49 HugePages Deprecated for PVM Guests as of Oracle VM Release 3.4.1
    • 9.7.50 HugePages Does Not Display as Selected in Oracle VM Manager Web Interface
    • 9.7.51 Kdump Service Hangs at Discovery of FCoE Device with Broadcom CNA on HP Servers
    • 9.7.52 Do Not Discover Oracle VM Servers Earlier than Release 3.2.10
    • 9.7.53 (SPARC Only) Cannot Export Virtual Appliance with Physical Disk Access
    • 9.7.54 (SPARC Only) MTU Resets to the Default of 1500 After Server Power Off
    • 9.7.55 Oracle VM Server Installer Fails When Modifying Swap Partitions
    • 9.7.56 Kernel Startup is Slow after Upgrading to UEK4 on PVHVM Guests
    • 9.7.57 Cannot Enable High Availability (HA) for Virtual Machines with HugePages
    • 9.7.58 Kdump is Not Supported on FCoE SANs
    • 9.7.59 Cannot Edit Running Virtual Machines with HugePages and HA Enabled
    • 9.7.60 Import URL Cannot Exceed Maximum Character Length
• 10 Known Limitations and Workarounds for Oracle VM Exporter Appliance
  • 10.1 ISO Image Attached to Virtual Machine Is Not Uploaded
  • 10.2 Export Process Is Aborted If Oracle VM Exporter Appliance Is Restarted or Stopped
  • 10.3 Export Virtual Machine Job Hangs After Disabling the Storage Network Interface
  • 10.4 An Oracle Linux 5 Virtual Machine Instance Cannot Be Accessed Using SSH or Serial Console
  • 10.5 Oracle VM Manager Limits VMAPI Messages to 1024 Characters
  • 10.6 UI Allows Setting of Incorrect Boot Volume Size for Windows Virtual Machine
  • 10.7 ovmd Service Start Is Delayed for Exported Oracle Linux 6 Virtual Machine
• 11 Additional Software for Oracle VM
  • 11.1 Oracle VM Paravirtual Drivers for Microsoft Windows
  • 11.2 Oracle VM Storage Connect plug-ins
  • 11.3 Oracle VM Guest Additions
  • 11.4 Oracle VM Utilities
  • 11.5 Oracle Enterprise Manager
  • 11.6 Oracle VM Exporter Appliance
  • 11.7 Third Party Software
• 12 Oracle VM Accessibility Features