HP Integrity Virtual Machines 4.2.5: Release Notes

• You might receive a read error while reading filesets from the OE media, with a “Bad Address
(14)” wording in the error message.
Workaround: Install the PHKL_39114 patch.
• The update might hang while installing the filesets from the March 2009 OE media. Installing
PHKL_39114 does NOT fix this critical problem. This problem results when you update the
OE from 0809 to 0903 using physical (DVD) media. This problem does not occur with any
of the following conditions:
◦ You use Update-UX with a network source depot.
◦ You are cold-installing from OE media or a network depot.
◦ You are updating from a release prior to September 2008.
◦ Your system is set to a BPS of 4K before the update.
Follow these steps to work around this problem:
1. Check the state of BPS on your system by running:
# kctune base_pagesize
Tunable Value Expression
base_pagesize 64 64
If it is 4 instead of 64, then you can proceed directly with the update.
2. Gracefully shut down all VMs running on the VM Host system.
3. Shut down Integrity VM:
# /sbin/init.d/hpvm stop
4. Change the BPS value to 4K with the following command:
# kctune base_pagesize=4
5. Reboot your system, and verify the 4K BPS value as in Step 1.
6. Update the system with the OE media by completing all Update-UX steps.
7. After your system has updated and rebooted, set the BPS to the original value:
# kctune base_pagesize=64
8. Reboot your system, and verify the original BPS value (in this case, 64K) as in Step 1.
9. Verify that Integrity VM has started successfully using the hpvmstatus command.
For more information, see the HP-UX 11i v3 Read Before Installing or Updating March 2009. For
the latest information on this issue, including the updated recovery instructions, see CRs
QXCR1000868519 and QXCR1000907205. You can search for them by following these steps:
1. Go to the IT Resource Center at this website: http://www.itrc.hp.com.
2. Click “Search knowledge base”.
3. Select “Search by document ID” for your search mode.
4. Enter "ttr_na-SSB_1000868519" or "ttr_na-SSB_1000907205" in the box.
2.3.7 After Upgrading to 11i v3, Guests Cannot Start Due to Missing USB DVD
Backing Device
If you have recently upgraded or are planning to upgrade to HP-UX 11i v3, (0903 or later) from
either HP-UX 11i v2 or an earlier version of HP–UX 11i v3, note that this release contains a new
USB driver that uses a different device name for a USB . Guests that have been configured to use
a USB DVD as a backing storage device require modifications to access the new device name for
the USB DVD. If no modifications are made to those guests, they will not be able to access the USB
DVD and might fail to boot due to a change in the EFI boot-path device.
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