Synopsis

ovirt-node bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated ovirt-node package that fixes various bugs, and adds a number of
enhancements, is now available.

Description

The ovirt-node package provides the utilities and recipes used to create and
configure the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor ISO image.

Note: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor is only available for the
Intel 64 and AMD64 architectures with virtualization extensions.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• The sanlock user was missing in some upgrade circumstances, so
  the "sanlock lockspace add" command could fail when creating new NFS storage
  pools on the hypervisor. Now, the sanlock user is checked on upgrade, and is
  created if it does not exist. The lockspace errors no longer occur. (BZ#916183)
  
• When the hypervisor was booted in EFI mode, the expected behavior was for a
  boot message to replace its previous line. Instead, the messages were appended
  to each line. This update shortens the GRUB EFI menu to under 54 characters, to
  prevent boot messages from overlapping. (BZ#920270)
  
• Previously, installing the hypervisor with the vlan parameter set to
  vlan= resulted in a kernel panic. Setting the vlan boot parameter to the
  format of vlan=: can be validated within dracut, so the
  hypervisor installation succeeds. (BZ#927291)
  
• A previous fix which populated an empty /etc/hosts file with default entries
  also overwrote an /etc/hosts file populated with custom entries. Now, when the
  hypervisor detects that the /etc/hosts file contains custom entries, the file is
  persisted upon reboot. (BZ#950136)
  
• The "nomodeset" kernel parameter, which was previously missing, has now been
  added to the list of Basic Video options for EFI boot. (BZ#951687)
  
• Previously .cfg was used as the grub configuration file suffix instead of
  .conf. Calls to copy a non-existent .conf file into a compatible EFI boot
  directory caused the hypervisor to be unbootable. Now the correct .conf suffix
  is used, so an installed hypervisor can be successfully booted in EFI mode.
  (BZ#951688)
  
• Previously on the network interfaces section of the hypervisor TUI, the boot
  protocol displayed as "none" when the IP configuration was static. Now, the boot
  protocol field displays as "static" when a static IP configuration is present.
  (BZ#950141)
  
• Previously, attempting to use the mem_overcommit kernel argument to set the
  swap ratio caused installation to fail. Now, specifying mem_overcommit
  calculates the swap size for installation. If the swap size is specified in the
  storage_vol parameter and the mem_overcommit argument is also provided, the
  hypervisor is installed using the swap size defined in the storage_vol
  parameter. (BZ#950191)
  

This ovirt-node package is included in the rhev-hypervisor6 package associated
with advisory RHBA-2013:0746

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2013-0746.html

Users of the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor are advised to upgrade
to this updated package, which corrects these issues and adds these
enhancements.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to
use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Virtualization 6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 916183 - Sanlock lockspace add failure while creating NFS storage pool on RHEV-H node.
• BZ - 920270 - rhev-h produce the booting in 30...29...28...27...26 appending each line instead of replacing.
• BZ - 927291 - Kernel Panic when installing RHEVH 6.4 from PXE with vlan parameter
• BZ - 950136 - persist command does not work on /etc/hosts file after reboot.
• BZ - 950141 - The IPv4 Settings changed from 'Static' to 'Disabled' and Protocol display none after register rhev-h to RHEV-M
• BZ - 951687 - 'nomodeset' miss in Basic Video when boot on EFI supported machine
• BZ - 951688 - Boot rhev-h failed in uefi mode machine.

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Red Hat Virtualization 6

SRPM
ovirt-node-2.5.0-17.el6_4.3.src.rpm	SHA-256: f0b076af37f1a20859679f2dc2692302b5a5b1746d2fa9e7a18589d7611c88f2
x86_64
ovirt-node-recipe-2.5.0-17.el6_4.3.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 8bb8fb825dbe089b3fb6c3fcdff69439b6508cb2d6a05cbcb2774cc17b273b74
ovirt-node-tools-2.5.0-17.el6_4.3.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 197ed0613e68a3243e067063bd9ef4d9a03ffe1181283c107ed65e7a441f5955