HP Integrity Virtual Machines 4.2.5: Release Notes

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Contents

About This Document...................................................................................11

Intended Audience..................................................................................................................11

New and Changed Information in This Edition............................................................................11

Typographic Conventions.........................................................................................................11

Document Organization..........................................................................................................11

Related Information.................................................................................................................12

Publishing History...................................................................................................................12

HP Insight Remote Support.......................................................................................................13

HP Encourages Your Comments................................................................................................14

1 Introduction.............................................................................................15

1.1 New Features and Enhancements in This Version of Integrity VM..............................................16

1.2 Guest and VM Host Support...............................................................................................16

1.3 Guest Management Software..............................................................................................17

2 Installation Notes.....................................................................................19

2.1 Installing Integrity VM........................................................................................................19

2.2 Changes and Issues in This Release.....................................................................................19

2.2.1 Stop Guests Before Installing PHSS_41411 Patch.............................................................19

2.3 Known Issues and Information.............................................................................................19

2.3.1 After Installation, Integrity VM Might Hang Upon Reboot................................................20

2.3.2 Unable to Communicate with the FSS Agents Messages in

/var/opt/hpvm/common/command.log .............................................................................20

2.3.3 Compatibility of Insight Dynamics - VSE V6.0 with Integrity VM V4.2.5............................20

2.3.4 Warning Messages That Can be Ignored.....................................................................20

2.3.5 Software Failures on VM Host Due to Use of Large base_pagesize Tunable.......................20

2.3.6 HP-UX Installation and Update Failures When Using Physical Installation Media................20

2.3.7 After Upgrading to 11i v3, Guests Cannot Start Due to Missing USB DVD Backing

Device..............................................................................................................................21

2.3.8 HPVM-Guest Bundle on HP-UX Guests No Longer Reduces Value of dma32_pool_size.......22

2.3.9 Clicking Veritas Enterprise Administrator Link on the System Management Homepage Might

Result in VEA Abort and Core Dump....................................................................................22

2.3.10 Failures in Key Applications.......................................................................................23

2.3.11 Installing the Migration Tools Including hpvmmigrate and Physical-to-Virtual Assist Tools.....23

2.3.12 Limitations When using HP Integrity Virtual Machines Manager with Integrity VM

V4.2.5.............................................................................................................................23

2.3.13 Installing the HP Integrity Virtual Machines Product Over the Evaluation Software..............24

2.3.14 Do Not Install Applications on the VM Host System.......................................................24

2.3.15 Do Not Install Integrity VM on a Virtual Partition...........................................................26

2.3.16 Do Not Install Windows as Alternate Boot on a VM Host System....................................26

2.3.17 Trunking Software.....................................................................................................26

2.3.18 Warning During Startup if HP SIM is Installed..............................................................26

2.3.19 Patch PHSS_41543 Must be Installed Prior to Guest Activation........................................26

2.4 HP-UX Patches Required in the VM Host...............................................................................27

2.5 Patches Required in the HP-UX Guest...................................................................................32

2.6 Patches Required for Ignite/UX Servers................................................................................35

2.7 Patches Required for Windows Guests.................................................................................35

2.8 Patches Required for Red Hat Linux Guests...........................................................................36

2.9 Patches Required for SUSE Enterprise Linux Guests.................................................................36

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