Oracle vm guest disk count limitation

Hello!
Recently I've deployed oracle virtual server (3.2.2), and have a task for virtual machine creation with solaris 10 x86 installed and 5+ physical disks attached to the system from various SAN storages. Xen HVM domain type has a limitation of 4 disks attachable, so I've changed domain type for Xen HVM, PV drivers on the cloned machine, but I'm unable to apply 5 disks attached configuration to this vm with following error:
OVMAPI_6001E Exception invoking method (Method: com.oracle.ovm.mgr.rules.modules.api.virtual.VmDiskMappingRules.setDiskTargetPre, Args: [0004fb0000130000a141a094f5920c4c, 4, true]) - at com.oracle.ovm.mgr.api.job.JobEngine.invokeMethod(JobEngine.java:690)
at com.oracle.ovm.mgr.rules.RulesEngine.runRules(RulesEngine.java:177)
at com.oracle.ovm.mgr.rules.RulesEngine.preProcess(RulesEngine.java:142)
at com.oracle.ovm.mgr.model.ModelEngine.preValidate(ModelEngine.java:542)
at com.oracle.ovm.mgr.model.ModelEngine.access$200(ModelEngine.java:67)
at com.oracle.ovm.mgr.model.ModelEngine$3.notify(ModelEngine.java:360)
at com.oracle.odof.core.AbstractVessel.invokeMethod(AbstractVessel.java:352)
at com.oracle.odof.core.AbstractVessel.invokeMethod(AbstractVessel.java:333)
at com.oracle.odof.core.storage.Transaction.invokeMethod(Transaction.java:865)
at com.oracle.odof.core.Exchange.invokeMethod(Exchange.java:244)
at com.oracle.ovm.mgr.api.virtual.VmDiskMappingProxy.setDiskTarget(Unknown Source)
at com.oracle.ovm.mgr.api.virtual.VirtualMachineConfigDbImpl.createVmDiskMapping(VirtualMachineConfigDbImpl.java:605)
at com.oracle.odof.core.AbstractVessel.invokeMethod(AbstractVessel.java:356)
at com.oracle.odof.core.AbstractVessel.invokeMethod(AbstractVessel.java:333)
at com.oracle.odof.core.storage.Transaction.invokeMethod(Transaction.java:865)
at com.oracle.odof.command.InvokeMethodCommand.process(InvokeMethodCommand.java:92)
at com.oracle.odof.core.BasicWork.processCommand(BasicWork.java:81)
at com.oracle.odof.core.storage.Transaction.processCommand(Transaction.java:601)
at com.oracle.odof.core.TransactionManager.processTransactionWork(TransactionManager.java:651)
at com.oracle.odof.core.TransactionManager.processCommand(TransactionManager.java:756)
at com.oracle.odof.core.WorkflowManager.processCommand(WorkflowManager.java:467)
at com.oracle.odof.core.WorkflowManager.processWork(WorkflowManager.java:525)
at com.oracle.odof.io.AbstractClient.run(AbstractClient.java:42)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.oracle.ovm.mgr.rules.modules.api.virtual.VmDiskMappingRules.throwIfBadTarget(VmDiskMappingRules.java:118)
at com.oracle.ovm.mgr.rules.modules.api.virtual.VmDiskMappingRules.setDiskTargetPre(VmDiskMappingRules.java:41)
... 31 more
... [Tue Jul 23 01:08:03 KGT 2013]
Is there anyone who was able to create Solaris 10 x86 virtual machine with more then 4 disks attached?
-Tumer

as09 wrote:
When I restarted whole VM server then the guest created before did not come up.Add a symbolic link to your vm.cfg in */etc/xen/auto*. This will tell Xen to automatically start the guest when the server starts.

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