HP Integrity Virtual Machines Release Notes Version A.03.50

3.5 Golden Images of Systems with HPVM-Guest Installed Must have HPVM Device Drivers
Configured............................................................................................................................................32
3.6 Numbers Reported by Glance 4.6 or above Running on VM Host Might be Incorrect..................32
3.7 Interleaved Memory on Cellular Hosts...........................................................................................32
3.8 hpvmcreate Manpage Incorrect......................................................................................................32
3.9 hpvmstop Manpage Incorrect.........................................................................................................33
3.10 New option for hpvmstatus Command........................................................................................33
3.11 The hpvmstatus Display Can Lag in a Serviceguard Cluster...................................................33
4 Installing Guests...........................................................................................................35
4.1 Windows Guests..............................................................................................................................35
4.1.1 Removing Media During Installation Hangs Guest...............................................................35
4.1.2 Network Driver for Some Windows Guests Not Behaving Correctly....................................35
4.1.3 Virtual DVD Misconfiguration can Lead to Windows Slow Down........................................35
4.1.4 HP Insight Manager Automatic Server Recovery Does Not Work ........................................35
4.1.5 PalHalLight RegEdit Patch Should Not be Installed...............................................................35
4.1.6 Installing Windows with Virtual NullDVD is Not Recommended........................................35
4.1.7 Enabling MP Services on Windows Guest Logs telnetd Errors..............................................36
4.1.8 Using Windows Firewall Requires ICMP to Allow Echo.......................................................36
4.1.9 Poor Console Screen Formatting.............................................................................................36
4.1.10 The hpvmstop Command Does Not Shut Down Windows Guests Gracefully...................36
4.1.11 Do Not Delete EFI Shell Boot Option....................................................................................37
4.1.12 Bug Check 0xA: IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL — 1..........................................................37
4.1.13 Bug Check 0xA: IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL — 12........................................................37
4.1.14 Restoring the NVRAM for Windows Guests........................................................................37
4.2 HP-UX Guests.................................................................................................................................38
4.2.1 Installing the Guest Management Software............................................................................38
4.2.2 HP-UX 11i v3 Guests Might Fail to Configure Interface Cards Due to Lack of Memory
Resources.........................................................................................................................................39
4.2.3 Patches for HP-UX 11i v3 Guests............................................................................................39
4.2.4 Do Not Run Live Kernel Debuggers Inside a Guest...............................................................39
4.2.5 Do Not Use the iomap(7) Mechanism on HP-UX Guests....................................................39
4.2.6 iCAP Commands Fail on HP-UX Guests................................................................................39
4.3 Linux Guests....................................................................................................................................40
4.3.1 SLES10 SP1 Guests Supported on Integrity Servers...............................................................40
4.3.2 Before Installing the SUSE Linux Guest..................................................................................40
4.3.3 Installing Linux Guest Management Software for the First Time..........................................40
4.3.4 ACPI Warnings, Errors, and Exceptions Displayed when SUSE Guest Booted.....................41
4.3.5 HP SIM CMS Cannot Connect to SLES10 over SSH...............................................................41
4.3.6 Preparing Linux Guests for VM Manager...............................................................................41
4.3.7 Linux Guests with FC Tapes Display Errors...........................................................................42
4.3.8 Disable IPv6 on Linux Guests.................................................................................................42
4.3.9 Infrequent “Ooops: timer ticks before it is due” Errors..........................................................42
4.3.10 Infrequent “e1000: eth1: e1000_clean_tx_irq: Detected Tx Unit Hang” Errors.....................42
4.3.11 Inconsistent “Bogomips” Values between Virtual CPU0 and Other Virtual CPUs..............43
4.3.12 Incorrect Display of Special Characters when Displayed Using HP-UX Terminal..............43
4.3.13 Occasional Floating-Point Assist Fault Messages.................................................................43
4.3.14 TC INIT Dump Messages Do Not Appear on the SUSE Linux Guest Console....................43
5 Using Integrity VM Commands..................................................................................45
5.1 Accidental Use of -R Option with hpvmmodify Instead of -r.....................................................45
5.2 Changing Guest LAN from AVIO to VIO.......................................................................................45
5.3 The hpvmmodify Command Reevaluates Guest Configurations..................................................45
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