HP Integrity Virtual Machines Version 4.2 Release Notes

Table of Contents
About This Document.......................................................................................................11
Intended Audience................................................................................................................................11
New and Changed Information in This Edition...................................................................................11
Typographic Conventions.....................................................................................................................11
Document Organization.......................................................................................................................12
Related Information..............................................................................................................................12
Publishing History................................................................................................................................12
HP Encourages Your Comments..........................................................................................................13
1 Introduction...................................................................................................................15
1.1 New Features and Enhancements in This Version of Integrity VM...............................................15
1.2 Guest Management Software..........................................................................................................16
2 Installation Notes.........................................................................................................19
2.1 Installing Integrity VM....................................................................................................................19
2.2 Changes and Issues in This Release................................................................................................19
2.2.1 Unable to Communicate with the FSS Agents Messages in /var/opt/hpvm/common/
command.log ................................................................................................................................19
2.2.2 Compatibility of VSE V4.1 with Integrity VM V4.2................................................................20
2.3 Known Issues and Information.......................................................................................................20
2.3.1 Warning Messages That Can be Ignored................................................................................20
2.3.2 Large Page Defects in HP-UX 11i v3 on the VM Host............................................................20
2.3.2.1 HP-UX Installation and Update Failures When Using Physical Installation Media......20
2.3.2.2 After Upgrading to 11i v3, Guests Cannot Start Due to Missing USB DVD Backing
Device.........................................................................................................................................21
2.3.2.3 HPVM-Guest Bundle on HP-UX Guests No Longer Reduces Value of
dma32_pool_size...........................................................................................................................22
2.3.2.4 Clicking Veritas Enterprise Administrator Link on the System Management Homepage
Might Result in VEA Abort and Core Dump.............................................................................22
2.3.2.5 Failures in Key Applications...........................................................................................23
2.3.3 Integrity VM Includes the Base Operating Environment.......................................................23
2.3.4 Installing the Migration Tools Including hpvmmigrate and Physical-to-Virtual Assist
Tools.................................................................................................................................................23
2.3.5 Limitations When using HP Integrity Virtual Machines Manager with Integrity VM V4.2...24
2.3.6 VxVM Device Path Not Valid Error on HP-UX 0803 Guest....................................................26
2.3.6.1 Installing the HP Integrity Virtual Machines Product Over the Evaluation Software....26
2.3.6.2 Do Not Install Applications on the VM Host System.....................................................26
2.3.6.3 Do Not Install Integrity VM on a Virtual Partition.........................................................28
2.3.6.4 Do Not Install Windows as Alternate Boot on a VM Host System.................................28
2.3.6.5 Trunking Software...........................................................................................................28
2.3.6.6 Warning During Startup if HP SIM is Installed..............................................................28
2.4 HP-UX Patches Required in the VM Host.......................................................................................28
2.5 Patches Required in the HP-UX Guest............................................................................................32
2.6 Patches Required for Ignite/UX Servers..........................................................................................36
2.7 Patches Required for Windows Guests...........................................................................................36
2.8 Patches Required for Red Hat Linux Guests...................................................................................36
2.9 Patches Required for SUSE Enterprise Linux Guests......................................................................37
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