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ESX 3.0.2, ESX-1001907, SMBIOS Fix; PRE-enablement Support for AMD and Intel CPUs

Details

Release Date: 10/29/07
Document Last Updated: 10/29/07
 

Download Size: 
39.0  MB
Download Filename:
ESX-1001907.tgz
md5sum:
 2c3f02433e3e7727b2e86d87f1bc1d58

 

 

Product Versions

ESX Server 3.0.2*

Patch Classification

General

Supersedes

ESX-1002087

Virtual Machine Migration or Reboot Required

Yes

ESX Server Host Reboot Required

Yes

PRs Fixed

191749

Affected Hardware

 

Affected Software

 

RPMs Updated

VMware-esx-vmkernel,
VMware-esx-vmx

Related CVE numbers

 

Summary

This patch fixes the following issues:

 

  • This patch fixes the SMBIOS.reflectHost=TRUE option. This setting was not working on esx302 because system call VMKernel_GetSMBIOS() was failing.
    By setting the SMBIOS.reflectHost = "TRUE" option in a virtual machine's configuration file, the virtual machine Product and Manufacturer SMBIOS
    information is the same as the server's SMBIOS information. 

This patch pre-enables support of the following processors. Full enablement and support of these processors in ESX Server will be declared at a later date. 

  • This patch pre-enables the Intel "Harpertown" processor.

  • This patch pre-enables Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor models 2347, 8347, 2350, and 8350 (AMD "Barcelona").

*This patch is included in ESX Server 3.0.2 Update 1 release. For more information about this update, see the ESX Server 3.0.2 Update 1 release notes at http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/releasenotes_esx302_update1.html.

Solution

Symptoms

Within the guest operating system of the virtual machine, the hardware detected shows “VMware” rather than the actual underlying physical hardware, even when the “SMBIOS.reflectHost=TRUE” option is set in the virtual machine’s configuration (.vmx) file.

Deployment Considerations

vmkping and ramcheck Commands Fail in ESX 3.0.2 Update 1 or ESX 3.0.2 Server with Patch Bundle ESX-1001907 Installed
VMware discovered an issue with two command line utilities (vmkping and ramcheck ) when ESX 3.0.2 Update 1 or ESX Server 3.0.2 patch bundle ESX-1001907 is installed. Please refer to http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1002880 for a detailed decription of the symptoms, root cause, workaround, and a fix to this issue.

Download Instructions

Download and verify the patch bundle as follows:

1.      Download patch ESX-1001907 from http://www.vmware.com/download/vi/vi3_patches.html .

2.      Log in to the ESX Server service console as root.

3.      Create a local depot directory.

# mkdir -p /var/updates

Note: VMware recommends that you use the updates directory.

4.      Change your working directory to /var/updates.

# cd /var/updates

5.      Download the tar file into the /var/updates directory.

6.      Verify the integrity of the downloaded tar file:

# md5sum ESX-1001907 .tgz

The md5 checksum output should match the following:

2c3f02433e3e7727b2e86d87f1bc1d58 ESX-1001907 .tgz

7.      Extract the compressed tar archive:

# tar -xvzf ESX-1001907 .tgz

8.      Change to the newly created directory, /var/updates/ESX-1001907 :

# cd ESX-1001907

Installation Instructions

After you download and extract the archive, and if you are in the directory that you previously created, use the following command to install the update:

# esxupdate update

To run esxupdate from a different directory, you must specify the bundle path in the command:

# esxupdate -r file://<directory>/ESX-1001907 update

For example, if the host is called depot:

# esxupdate -r file://depot/var/updates/ESX-1001907 update

During the update process, logs appear on the terminal. You can specify the verbosity of esxupdate logs by using the -v option as shown below.

# esxupdate -v 10 file://<directory>/ESX-1001907 update

For more information how to use esxupdate, see the Patch Management for ESX Server 3 tech note at http://www.vmware.com/pdf/esx3_esxupdate.pdf .

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  • KB Article: 1001907
  • Updated: Aug 14, 2009
  • Products:
    VMware ESX
  • Product Versions:
    VMware ESX 3.0.x