4.2. Red Hat Virtualization 4.3 Batch Update 1 (ovirt-4.3.4)

BZ#1627958

The self-hosted engine was not detecting exceptions or failures when the ‘--vm-start’ command was initiated. As a result, the retry count was not incremented and therefore the score of the host was not reduced for rescheduling.

BZ#1698548

Previously, the Conversion playbook failed while creating an .ssh directory. The current release fixes this bug.

BZ#1704826

Previously, when upgrading the Open Virtual Network (OVN), the status of the ovn-controller service was not saved, and consequently, the service did not start after the upgrade. The ovn-controller service is now included in the list of tracked services, and starts after the upgrade.

BZ#1707983

Previously, when converting virtual machines to Red Hat Virtualization using the SSH method, the SSH wrapper used the root SSH key instead of the VDSM user’s SSH key. This bug is now fixed.

BZ#1710740

Updating the Data Center level while the virtual machine was suspended, resulted in the virtual machine not resuming activity following the update. In this release, the suspended virtual machine must be resumed before the Data Center level update. Otherwise, the operation fails.

BZ#1711792

When a virtual machine migration entered post-copy mode and remained in that mode for a long time, the migration sometimes failed and the migrated virtual machine was powered off. In this release, post-copy migrations are maintained to completion.

BZ#1714154

Converting a storage domain to the V5 format failed when there were partly deleted volumes with cleared metadata remaining in the storage domain following an unsuccessful delete volume operation. In this release, storage domain conversion succeeds even when partly deleted volumes with cleared metadata remain in the storage domain.

BZ#1717434

In some scenarios, the PCI address of a hotplugged SR-IOV vNIC was overwritten by an empty value, and as a result, the NIC name in the virtual machine was changed following a reboot. In this release, the vNIC PCI address is stored in the database and the NIC name persists following a virtual machine reboot.

BZ#1341161

A new generic Linux x86 operating system selection named ‘Other Linux (kernel 4.x)’ has been added to the drop down list of operating systems available when creating a new virtual machine in Red Hat Virtualization.

BZ#1655503

This release adds support for virtual machines to use Windows 2019 x64 in the Administration Portal.

BZ#1689702

A new configuration variable 'EventPurgeTimeoutInHours' has been added to set the number of hours an event can stay in the queue before being cleaned up. The variable can be modified using engine-config. The initial default value is 3 hours.

BZ#1695567

When a host is running in FIPS mode, VNC must use SASL authorization instead of regular passwords because of the weak algorithm inherent in the VNC protocol.

BZ#1709895

Previously, you could only test a host’s network connectivity with ICMP (ping). Sometimes the gateway does not reply to a ping request, such as when ping is blocked at the network level. When such a failure occurred during the installation of a self-hosted engine, the installation failed. Now you can test network connectivity by checking if the DNS resolution is working, by pinging the gateway, by testing a TCP connection to a configurable port on a configurable host, or you can proceed with installation without running any test.

BZ#1670576

Red Hat Virtualization 4.3 supports host machines with AMD EPYC processors.