System Management Release Notes
4.3 OpenVMS as a Guest Operating System on Integrity VM
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This problem occurs when VM Monitor runs out of memory to allocate for guests.
The workaround for this problem is to restart VM Monitor by entering the
following commands on the Host:
# /sbin/init.d/hpvm stop
# /sbin/init.d/hpvm start
This problem will be fixed in a future version of Integrity VM.
4.3.2 Increased CPU Consumption After Shutdown
V8.4
OpenVMS guest has a known issue where the CPU consumption
of the Host increases, in case the guest is shutdown using the
SYS$SYSTEM:SHUTDOWN.COM command procedure using "NONE" as the
shutdown options. The CPU consumption on the Host remains high as long
as the VMS guest stays in the "P000>>>" firmware prompt. After the guest is
rebooted the Host CPU consumption returns back to normal.
The suggested workaround for this problem is to shutdown VMS guest using
"POWER_DOWN" as the shutdown options.
A known consequence of using this option is that, the virtual machine is
shutdown and has to be restarted by the MP command "pc -on" in the virtual
console or alternately enter the following command on the Host:
# hpvmstart -P <<OpenVMS guest name>>
This will be fixed in a future release.
4.3.3 OpenVMS Guest Does not Support Attached I/O Devices
V8.4
The OpenVMS guest does not support attached devices such as CD/DVD burners,
media changers and tape devices. If you want to use tape devices, you can
connect them to a physical system that is in a cluster with OpenVMS guest and
TMSCP serves the tape devices.
4.3.4 Networking or Storage Interface Support
V8.4
The OpenVMS guest supports only Accelerated Virtual I/O (AVIO) interface.
Integrity VM commands allows you to configure VIO devices to a guest and these
devices may not give any apparent errors during the startup. However, VIO
devices are not part of the supported configuration of a guest running OpenVMS
Operating System.
4.4 Provisioning OpenVMS Using HP SIM
The following release notes pertain to provisioning on OpenVMS.
4.4.1 Provisioning OpenVMS Guest Limitation
V8.4
Provisioning OpenVMS using HP SIM, Version 4.0 is not supported with
OpenVMS as a Guest Operating System on Integrity VM.
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