HP Integrity Virtual Machines 4.2.5: Release Notes
4.3.2 Known Issues and Information.....................................................................................46
4.3.2.1 Using Linux Guests.............................................................................................46
4.3.2.2 SUSE Linux Cloned Guests Boot-Disk Boot Problems...............................................47
4.3.2.3 TC INIT Dump Messages Fail to Appear in SUSE Linux Guest Consoles Running Multi
CPUs...........................................................................................................................48
4.3.2.4 SLES10 SP2 Guests Supported on Integrity Servers.................................................48
4.3.2.5 Before Installing the SUSE Linux Guest..................................................................49
4.3.2.6 Installing Linux Guest Management Software for the First Time.................................49
4.3.2.7 ACPI Warnings, Errors, and Exceptions Displayed when SUSE Guest Booted.............49
4.3.2.8 HP SIM CMS Cannot Connect to SLES10 over SSH................................................50
4.3.2.9 Preparing Linux Guests for Integrity Virtual Machines Manager................................50
4.3.2.10 Linux Guests with FC Tapes Display Errors............................................................50
4.3.2.11 Disable IPv6 on Linux Guests..............................................................................51
4.3.2.12 Infrequent Ooops: timer ticks before it is due Errors...............................................51
4.3.2.13 Infrequent e1000: eth1: e1000_clean_tx_irq: Detected Tx Unit Hang Errors..............51
4.3.2.14 Inconsistent “Bogomips” Values between Virtual CPU0 and Other Virtual CPUs........51
4.3.2.15 Incorrect Display of Special Characters when Displayed Using HP-UX Terminal.........51
4.3.2.16 Occasional Floating-Point Assist Fault Messages....................................................52
4.3.2.17 Serviceguard in VM Host Configuration...............................................................52
4.4 OpenVMS Guests ............................................................................................................52
4.4.1 Creating OpenVMS Guests........................................................................................52
4.4.2 Minimum Processor Requirement for OpenVMS Guests..................................................52
4.4.3 Minimum VM Host Page Size.....................................................................................52
4.4.4 Guest Device Placement and Adapter Limitation............................................................53
4.4.5 OpenVMS System Dump Analyzer (SDA).....................................................................53
4.4.6 Formatting SYSTEM UUID...........................................................................................53
4.4.7 Packaging OpenVMS Guests as Serviceguard Package Not Supported............................54
4.4.8 TCP/IP and WBEM Services Not Started Automatically at Boot on OpenVMS Guest..........54
5 Using Integrity VM Commands...................................................................55
5.1 Changes and Issues in This Release.....................................................................................55
5.1.1 Integrity VM Command Changes..................................................................................55
5.1.2 Information Missing from hpvmmigrate -Y and -y Option Manpage Descriptions.................55
5.1.3 hpvmsuspend Manpage Missing -q Option....................................................................55
5.2 Known Issues and Information............................................................................................55
5.2.1 Boot-Problem Messages Now Found In Log File..............................................................55
5.2.2 Display Output from Some Integrity VM Tools Might Change in Form and Content.............55
5.2.3 Enabling or Disabling Virtual CPUs Online...................................................................55
5.2.4 The hpvmdevmgmt -r Command Might Report an Error When a Device is Marked as
EXIST=NO........................................................................................................................56
5.2.5 An hpvmmodify Command Not logged in the command.log file for DVDs When Guest
Booted to EFI.....................................................................................................................56
5.2.6 Running the hpvmdevtranslate Script............................................................................56
5.2.6.1 The hpvmdevtranslate Command Can be Used to Translate Devices Like SecurePath
and AutoPath................................................................................................................57
5.2.6.2 Error Comments from hpvmdevtranslate Command.................................................57
5.2.7 Accidental Use of -R Option with hpvmmodify Instead of -r..............................................57
5.2.8 Changing Guest LAN from AVIO to VIO......................................................................57
5.2.9 The hpvmmodify Command Reevaluates Guest Configurations........................................57
5.2.10 The hpvmdevmgmt Command Truncates File Sizes........................................................57
5.2.11 Setting Devices to Sharable Can Lead to Device Conflicts...............................................58
5.2.12 Errors on Displaying Guest or Vswitch Information While that Information is Being
Modified..........................................................................................................................58
5.2.13 Do Not Attempt to Remove Busy Virtual Devices...........................................................58
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