HP Integrity Virtual Machines Release Notes

4.2.1 HP-UX 11.31 Guests May Fail to Configure More than Two MPT Interfaces
If an HP-UX 11.31 system is configured with less than 2112 MB of memory, no more than two
MPT interfaces are successfully configured. If more than two interfaces are desired, allocate at
least 2.5 GB of memory to the guest.
4.2.2 Patches for HP-UX 11.31 Guests
Customers running HP-UX 11.31 guests should install the following patches (or their superseding
patches) in each guest running HP-UX 11.31:
• PHKL_36261
• PHKL_36242
These patches prevent performance problems in environments where applications spawn large
numbers of short-lived processes (such as development environments). To obtain these patches,
contact your support specialist or HP representative.
4.2.3 Do Not Run Live Kernel Debuggers Inside a Guest
Do not run tools that write kernel text, such as live kernel debuggers and performance tools such
as kgmon and ktracer inside a guest. Under rare circumstances, these tools cause the guest to
panic.
4.2.4 Do Not Use the iomap(7) Command on HP-UX Guests
The iomap(7) command allows you to map physical I/O addresses into the user process address
space. Do not use this command on HP-UX guests.
4.2.5 iCAP Commands Fail on HP-UX Guests
iCAP is installed as part of the HP-UX OS installation. Install-time configuration of iCAP reports
failure with messages similar to the following:
NOTE: Checking for partitionable system.
ERROR: Software configuration has failed. After addressing the issues
in the following output, configure this software with
'swconfig B9073BA'.
ERROR: Command not allowed to run on a Virtual Machine Guest.
ERROR: The "configure" script for "iCOD.ICOD-RUN" failed (exit code
"1"). The script location was
"/var/adm/sw/products/iCOD/ICOD-RUN/configure".
* This script had errors and the execution of this fileset
cannot proceed until the problem is fixed. Check the above
output from the script for further details.
* Running config clean command /usr/lbin/sw/config_clean.
* Summary of Execution Phase:
ERROR: Installed iCOD.ICOD-RUN,l=/,r=B.11.23.08.00.00.95
ERROR: 1 of 882 filesets had Errors.
* 881 of 882 filesets had no Errors or Warnings.
ERROR: The Execution Phase had errors. See the above output for
details.
These startup messages in /etc/rc.log may be disregarded.
iCAP commands cannot be used on virtual machines. iCAP commands are designed to work on
the VM Host system.
This problem is resolved in guests running HP-UX 11i V2 0706 and later.
4.3 Linux Guests
The following sections describe release notes for Linux guests.
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