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• Charon VM Manager now recognizes disabled services (Virtual Machines), designates them with special icon and prevents attempts of starting them displaying a popup window rather than error message (ID#5687).

• Installation kit now contains correctly signed PCI PassThrough drivers, which eliminates errors Windows cannot verify the digital signature for the drivers...(Code 52) while installing Charon PCI PassThrough driver (ID#5711).

• The processing of the following HASP licensing errors was changed such that the emulator will no longer terminate immediately but instead observe the grace period (ID#5717):
  • HASP_SHARING_VIOLATION (HASP runtimer error code 84)
  • HASP_DEVICE_ERR (HASP runtime error code 43)
  • HASP_SCOPE_RESULTS_EMPTY (HASP runtime error code 50)
• Charon VM Manager now does not ask for confirmation on Exit (ID#5730).
• Default identification of FC attached virtual disks ($1$DGAxxx drives attached through KGPSA) has been changed to "DEC HSG80" following the hardware original (ID#5731).
• Fix mkdskcmd utility to avoid reporting negative virtual disk size (ID#5735).

• Fix Charon Installation Utility (InstallShell) to correctly remove shortcuts from Programs/StartUp menu on product de-installation (ID#5736).

• Emulation of the TOY has been fixed to provide correct synchronization of the guest's time when it is intentionally set to a time in the past (relative to the host) (ID#5737).

Configuration changes required when upgrading from previous versions of Charon-AXP to version 4.12

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• The message "Failed to locate the "TTAx" for the line xx" displayed for intentionally not configured TTA lines is removed (ID#2650)

• Sometimes the "Failed to create symbolic link to the packet driver" error blocks Charon-AXP normal networking despite its configuration is correct (ID#2554, 3182)

• UETP fails on a tape image if Charon runs on VMware (ID#2427)

• Unable to install AS2x00/AS4x00 emulators ("--install" command) (ID#2294)

• Windows Server 2008 CN: "Invisible" Installation Log (empty log file) (ID#2678)

• ds10l.exe installation fails on Win2008 Chinese version (ID#2685)

• DE435 is offline with VMS 6.2-1H3 on AS4100 (ID#2680)

• The firmware does not detect DE450 adapter and therefore does not print it in the device list (ID#2652)

• DE450 remains OFFLINE in VMS (ID#2653)

• Problem using CDROM on an HP blade server via USB (ID#2651)

• Digital UNIX 4.0B fails to install on AlphaServer 400 (ID#2631)

• Console logs are not appended to by default (ID#2628)

• AS400 Emulator crash while installing Digital UNIX 4.0F (ID#2619)

• AS2000 and AS2100 unable to "create an instance of the component dec_21040" (ID#2597)

• Incorrect behavior on HALT command in kernel mode (ID#2595)

• ES40 Emulator crashed when performing the SWINGBENCH test (ID#2586)

• "-FILE" boot option of the SRM console was not implemented (ID#2102)

• A file "mkdisk.vtable" is absent in the kit -- without it MKDISK cannot start (ID#2589).

• The configuration template for the AS400 model has incorrect HW_MODEL syntax and is missing the PKB bus (ID#2373).

• Incorrect text encoding in the NetDiag help on Chinese systems (ID#2373).

• Tru64 V5.1B was unable to load driver for DEC 21040 PCI Ethernet Adapter (ID#2304).

• Charon-AXP crashed on UETP test (ID#2348).

• Ticket #7079: Charon crashed on a production system with segmentation violation (ID#2389)

• The old .BIN files lead to Charon misbehavior. It should be replaced for new one (ID#2447)

• A disk device goes offline suddenly with the "mount verification in progress" message (ID#2512)

• Tru64/tar utility is unable to write if the output device is a tape. (ID#2383)

• Failed to unload the virtual tape on Tru64. (ID#2385)

• VMS 7.2-1 booted on DS10L and DS20 with FC Pass-Through enabled hangs VMS. (ID#2390)

• Some configured disks disappeared from the OpenVMS environment (SRM console) under Charon-AXP/B108 AS4100.(ID#2393)

• Charon-AXP/ES40 is unable to boot Tru64 from FC attached disk (ID#2412).

• TOY data (including data/time) is not saved (ID#2414).

• Install procedure does not issue warnings when unsupported host platform is used (ID#2431).

• Putty Console does not work (no proper session is available) when Charon-AXP runs as a service (ID#2452).

• Ticket #7682: "BOOT EWA0" command in the SRM console leads to the emulators hanging (ID#2469).

• ID#2470 - Ticket #7684: BOOT DKA500 may boot from wrong device.

• ID#2471 - Ticket #7687: Pressing "F6" button terminates emulator. The default behavior has been changed to "none".

• Ticket #7716: SRM console HELP command is missing (ID#2472).

• Network Control Center utility does not recognize teamed interfaces (ID#2331)

• Some license messages are absent in the LOG file, for example "the license is expired" (ID#2040)

• NFS issue: "cp" command never ends and the "cp" process becomes zombie (ID#2257)

• SRM variables get saved in wrong console variables (ID#2295)

• Handling of some exceptional cases in DIT2 due to resource lock must be implemented to avoid possible overflow (ID#2404).

• Grammar error in message text: some typos have been corrected (ID#2428)

• Embedded network adapters and additional ones (having the same name) conflict without any notification (ID#2429)

• System hangs OpenVMS 7.1-2 with printing jobs (ID#2441)

• Compilation of C code using FP flags /FLOAT=IEEE /IEEE=DENORM result in zero values (ID#2446)

• log_method="append" does not work if specified separately from the other configuration commands for the logging definition (ID#2450).

• Utilities help does not start on "F1" on Windows 2008 / Vista operating systems (ID#2498)

• Ultrium tape drive fails on all VMS commands (ID#2386)

• Ticket #7774: Problems NDIS6 driver - memory leak was found (ID#2490)

• Many question marks sometimes displayed in the Network Control Center Chinese help file (ID#2373)

• Tape error: "-BACKUP-F-NOTANSI, tape is not valid ANSI format" (ID#2521)

• Exception (C0000005): Segmentation violation occurs on different configuration and applications (ID#2527, 2528, 2534, 2510)

• The OpenVMS V8.3 CPUSANITY bugcheck while performing KGPSA initialization

• Outgoing FTP hang problem on GS80/GS160 models (ID#1999)

• A problem with Fortran compiled code generating exceptions (ID#145)

• Several problems with physical tapes including tape initialization, label handling, tape restore and Files-11 file system on the tape

• A problem reporting version 2.2 instead of 2.3 in the SRM console

• A problem with VMS freezing during shutdown

• A problem with freezing VMS boot after "%PKQDRIVER-W- PKA0, Chip reset failed, trying again" error message

• A problem with EW devices not showing up at AS2x00 CRM console

• A problem with multi instance configuration preventing more than one Charon-AXP instance from running

• A problem with certain CPU affinity configurations causing "division by zero" crash

• "Back" button does not always work during installation

• An error message could appear during uninstallation of Charon-AXP through Control Panel

• Setting particular disk and tape types with media_type parameter on KZPBA is not supported for \\PhysicalDriveX configuration style

• Emulated PCI network adapter DE435 is not recognized in the AXP SRM console, however it is recognized and works for the guest OS.

• Charon-AXP may wrongly report that no license is present if the correct license is present.

• Too many scheduled starts and stops of Charon-AXP service in a short period of time could cause Charon-AXP crash.

• AlphaServer model 2100 could have problems with initializing of the network controller (DECchip 21040).

• Charon Network Control Center utility does not have proper Simplified Chinese interface.

• Ultrium SCSI-1 DAT-72 tape drives currently do not work with Charon-AXP.

• Virtual tape cannot be unloaded and container file replaced on Tru64.

Related Documents

Charon-AXP V4.12 for Windows - User's Guide (still internal!)

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