Logical Domains (LDoms) 1.0.3 Release Notes
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Logical Domains (LDoms) 1.0.3 Release Notes
Changes for This Release
Supported Platforms
Required, Recommended, and Optional Software
and Required Patches
Required and Recommended Software
Required System Firmware Patches
Location of Patches
Additional Recommended Software
Optional Software
Location of Documentation
Cards Not Supported
Memory Size Requirements
Logical Domain Channels (LDCs)
and Logical Domains
Software That Can Be Used With the Logical
Domains Manager
System Controller Software That Interacts
With Logical Domains Software
General Notes and Issues
System Controller and Service Processor Are Interchangeable
Terms
Limited Number of Logical Domain Configurations Can
Be Stored on the SC
Cleanly Shutting Down and Power Cycling
a Logical Domains System
To Power Off a System With Multiple
Active Domains
To Power Cycle the System
Memory Size Requested Might
Be Different From Memory Allocated
Dynamic Reconfiguration of
Virtual CPUs With Cryptographic Units
Split PCI Regresses in FMA
Functionality From Non–Logical Domains Systems
Logical Domain Variable Persistence
Bugs Affecting Logical Domains 1.0.3 Software
Format Oddities and Core Dump When Using ZVOL (Bug
ID 6363316)
Logical Domains Manager Can Erroneously Assign an
Offline CPU to a Logical Domain (Bug ID 6431107)
Logical Domains Manager Should Validate Disk Paths
and Network Devices (Bug ID 6447740)
Network Devices
Hang Can Occur With Guest OS
in Simultaneous Operations (Bug ID 6497796)
The iostat(1M) Command Does Not
Provide Meaningful I/O Statistics on Domain With Virtual Disks (Bug
ID 6503157)
Behavior of the ldm stop-domain Command Needs
to Be Improved in Some Cases (Bug ID 6506494)
Cannot Set Security Keys With
Logical Domains Running (Bug ID 6510214)
Certain ldm Subcommands
Return Misleading Messages If One or More Arguments Are Missing (Bug
IDs 6519049 and 6573220)
Logical Domains Manager Forgets Variable Changes After
a Power Cycle (Bug ID 6520041)
When Running Cluster Software, Selecting the ok Prompt
Upon a Logical Domain Shutdown Can Cause a Panic (Bug ID 6528556)
To Force the Primary Domain
to Stop at the ok Prompt
To Force All Other Domains to
Stop at the ok Prompt
ZFS Volumes Need to Have the
Same Version of Solaris Software Running on the Service Domain and
the Guest Domain (Bug ID 6528974)
Page Retirement Does Not Persist
in the Logical Domains Environment (Bug ID 6531058)
Fault Manager Daemon (fmd) Does
Not Correctly Recover From a Logical Domain Channel Reset (Bug ID
6533308)
Using the server-secure.driver With
an NIS Enabled System, Whether or Not LDoms Is Enabled (Bug ID 6533696)
To Reset Your System
Network Performance Is Substantially Worse in a Logical
Domain Guest Than in a Non-LDoms Configuration (Bug ID 6534438)
Logical Domain Time-of-Day
Changes Do Not Persist Across a Power Cycle of the Host (Bug ID 6536572)
When the Logical Domains Manager is Running, OpenBoot
PROM Variables Cannot be Modified by the eeprom(1M)
Command (Bug ID 6540368)
Errors to Buses in a Split-PCI
Configuration Might Not Get Logged (Bug ID 6542295)
Emulex-based Fibre Channel
Host Adapters Not Supported in Split-PCI Configuration on Sun Fire T1000
Servers (Bug ID 6544004)
Starting and Stopping SunVTS Multiple Times Can Cause
Host Console to Become Unusable (Bug ID 6549382)
Infiniband PCI-X Cards Lost if Control Domain is Rebooted
(Bug ID 6551861, 6552598, 6563713, 6589192, and 6625687)
Do Not Use Control-C From the prtdiag(1M) Command
(Bug ID 6552999)
Virtual Disks Created From Files Do Not Support EFI
Labels (Bug ID 6558966)
Occasionally During a Solaris OS Reboot, You Can Receive
an Unsuccessful Read or Write Message (Bug ID 6560890)
Heavy Network Traffic in Guest Domains Can Lead to
Solaris Cluster Heartbeat Failures (Bug ID 6561424)
Inconsistent Console Behavior When Not Using the Virtual
Console (Bug ID 6581309)
SP setdate Command Changes the
Solaris OS Date When Using Non-Default Logical Domain Configurations
(Bug ID 6586305)
Logical Domains Manager Does Not Retire Resources
On Guest Domain After a Panic and Reboot (Bug ID 6591844)
Logical Domains Manager Accepts Multiple Entries of
I/O Constraints (Bug ID 6591905)
Console Ports Dynamically Assigned When a Logical
Domain Is Bound Become Hard Constraints If the Logical Domains Manager Subsequently
Restarts (Bug ID 6596652)
Guest Domain With More Than Four Virtual Networks
on the Same Network Using DHCP Can Become Unresponsive (Bug ID 6603974)
Fault Management Daemon Dumps Core On a Hardened,
Single Strand Control Domain (Bug ID 6604253)
The set-vcpu Command Does Not Warn
About MAUs Becoming Unreachable On Initial Reconfiguration (Bug
ID 6609051)
Virtual Switch Should Be Selective When Displaying Warnings
to the Console (Bug ID 6610700)
Attempting to WAN Boot a Logical Domain Using a Solaris
10 8/07 OS Installation DVD Causes Hang (Bug ID 6624950)
The scadm Command Can Hang Following
an SC or SP Reset (Bug ID 6629230)
The vxdmp Utility Does Not Correctly
Export Disks (Bug ID 6637560)
Addition of Virtual Disk or Network Devices Under
Delayed Reconfiguration Can Fail (Bug ID 6646690)
Sometimes Failure to Make Requested Memory Allocation
Change Can Cause Logical Domains Manager to Terminate (Bug ID 6648291)
The ldm panic-domain Command
Returns Incorrect Error Message (Bug ID 6655083)
LDoms Multidomain Functionality Does Not Support SNMP
1.5.4 on Some Systems (Bug ID 6655981)
Simultaneous Net Installation of Multiple Domains
Fails When in a Common Console Group (Bug ID 6656033)
Guest Loses Virtual Disk Services When Using a Configuration
Saved During Delayed Reconfiguration (Bug ID 6659100)
Virtual Disk Channel Should Support the DKIOCPARTITION ioctl (Bug
ID 6673364)
Virtual Disk Channel Should Check for Device Being
Read-only Upon Opening (Bug ID 6675762)
No External Network Connectivity on Virtual Switch
Services Bound to an Aggregated Device (Bug ID 6675887)
System Can Occasionally Panic During Reboot If the
Virtual Switch Is Configured to Use an Aggregated Network Device (Bug
ID 6678891)
The sysfwdownload Utility Takes
Significantly Longer to Run While LDoms Is Enabled on UltraSPARC
T1-based Systems (Bug ID 6682402)
Data Might Not Be Written Immediately to the Virtual
Disk Backend If Virtual I/O Is Backed by a File or Volume (Bug ID
6684721)
Sometimes, the prtdiag(1M) Command
Does Not List all CPUs (Bug ID 6686081)
SVM Volumes Built on Slice 2 Fail JumpStart When Used
as the Boot Device in a Guest Domain (Bug ID 6687634)
Occasionally, SPARC Enterprise T2000 Systems Can Hang
on Boot If the Virtual Switch Is Configured to Use Sun x8 Express
1/10G Ethernet Adapters (Bug ID 6687871)
Logical Domains Manager Returns Successful (0) Instead
of Failed (1) Exit Code in Some Situations (Bug
ID 6689040)
The rm-vdsdev Subcommand Succeeds
on Another Domain While Delayed Reconfiguration Operations Are Pending
(Bug ID 6692185)
When a Virtual Disk Device and a Virtual Disk Are
in the Same Domain, the ldm rm-vdsdev Command
Does Not Persist Across Reboots (Bug ID 6693542)
Solaris 10 11/06 OS Net Installation Fails on Guest Domain
(Bug ID 6698036)
LDoms Bugs Fixed for Solaris 10 5/08 OS
Bugs Fixed for LDoms 1.0.3 Software
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