HP Integrity Virtual Machines Release Notes Version A.03.50

5.4 The hpvmdevmgmt Command Truncates File Sizes.......................................................................45
5.5 Setting Devices to Sharable Can Lead to Device Conflicts.............................................................45
5.6 Errors on Displaying Guest or Vswitch Information While that Information is Being Modified...45
5.7 Do Not Attempt to Remove Busy Virtual Devices..........................................................................46
5.8 Missing uuid or .vmid Files..........................................................................................................46
5.9 Maintain Minimum Entitlement.....................................................................................................46
5.10 Guest Memory Must Be a Multiple of 64 MB................................................................................46
5.11 Actual Running Entitlement Might Differ from Configured Entitlement....................................46
5.12 Duplicate Messages when Modifying Running Guests................................................................46
5.13 Manpages Display on Linux Guests..............................................................................................46
5.14 hpvmpubapi Manpage on Linux Guests.......................................................................................47
5.15 Integrity VM Check Might Fail Because of Bad Switch................................................................47
6 Guest Administration...................................................................................................49
6.1 Administrator Account Names.......................................................................................................49
6.2 Guest User Accounts.......................................................................................................................49
6.3 Creating Virtual Machine Administrator and Operator Accounts.................................................49
6.4 Modifying Guests............................................................................................................................50
6.5 Do Not Add User Accounts to the hpvmsys Group......................................................................50
6.6 Do Not Enter Ctrl/B after Starting Guest with Virtual Console......................................................50
6.7 HP-UX 11i v3 Guests Might Panic with a NaT_hndler: kernel NaT Consumption Fault..............51
6.8 How to Stop Guests.........................................................................................................................51
6.9 The hpvmconsole pc –cycle Command Occasionally Doesn’t Complete...................................51
6.10 How to Recover from a Guest Hang.............................................................................................51
6.11 Using HP Serviceguard to Manage Guests...................................................................................51
6.11.1 The hpvmsg_package Does Not Add Appropriate Entries..................................................51
6.11.2 Using AVIO lan Device in a Serviceguard Configured Guest..............................................51
6.11.3 Required HP Serviceguard Patches.......................................................................................52
6.11.4 Reenter Command to Start Packages....................................................................................52
6.11.5 Do not Use Integrity VM Commands to Manage Distributed Guests..................................52
6.11.6 Different Cluster Nodes Report Virtual Machine Status Differently....................................52
6.11.7 Syslog Entries for cmcld Can Be Ignored.............................................................................52
6.11.8 Using Virtual Machines Manager (VM Manager) to Manage Distributed Guests...............52
6.12 Managing Guests using gWLM.....................................................................................................52
7 Networking Information..............................................................................................55
7.1 Supported Adapters........................................................................................................................55
7.2 Sufficient Memory for Guests with Virtual LAN Devices..............................................................55
7.3 Vswitches Are Always in SHARED Mode......................................................................................55
7.4 Do Not Use the HP A5506B PCI 10/100Base-TX 4 Port Interface for Virtual Networking.............55
7.5 MAC Address Validation Can Be Enhanced...................................................................................55
7.6 Auto Port Aggregation (APA) is Supported on the VM Host, Not on the Guest...........................55
7.7 VM Manager Does Not Display APA Link Aggregate LAN Device..............................................56
7.8 Do Not Run Applications that Set Network Devices into Promiscuous Mode..............................56
7.9 Guest and Host Communication.....................................................................................................56
7.10 Configuring vswitches to be Backed by a VLAN Interface on the VM Host is Not Supported....56
7.11 Do Not Turn on TSO on the VM Host and on HP-UX Guests......................................................56
7.12 Restarting Vswitches.....................................................................................................................57
7.13 Guest AVIO Interface Behavior.....................................................................................................57
7.14 AVIO LAN Devices Not Claimed by Guest with DOWN Vswitch at Boot Time.........................57
7.15 Do Not Use TCP Software Packet Reassembly in IGSSN Driver..................................................58
7.16 HP-UX 11i v3 Guest Might Fail to Configure AVIO Network Interfaces Due to Lack of Memory
Resources..............................................................................................................................................58
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