RHBA-2013:0774 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated vdsm packages that fix several bugs are now available.

Description

The Virtual Desktop Server Manager (VDSM) is a management module that serves as
the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager's agent on Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization Hypervisor or Red Hat Enterprise Linux
virtualization hosts.

A list of the bugs fixed in this update is available in the Technical Notes
document:

https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization/3.1/html/Technical_Notes/chap-RHBA-2013-0774.html

All users managing Red Hat Enterprise Linux Virtualization hosts using Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization Manager are advised to install these updated packages
which fix these bugs.

These updated packages will be provided to users of Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization Hypervisor in the next rhev-hypervisor6 errata package.

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 3.1 x86_64
• Red Hat Virtualization 3 for RHEL 6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 947883 - The VM Channels Listener thread appears to stall , blocking all communication between VDSM and the hosted guest agents.
• BZ - 947888 - Guest agent information is missing after few VM's migrations
• BZ - 949683 - Storage Live Migration of thick disk results in corrupted disk
• BZ - 949686 - vdsm.log ownership is root:root when log rotate run at the same time as supervdsm writes to the same log file
• BZ - 949690 - vdsm: can't remove/export a vm with exception on getAllVolumes
• BZ - 950603 - default migration bandwidth capping is not honored anymore
• BZ - 951018 - Don't fail when a non-existing bond is requested via setupNetworks.
• BZ - 951576 - prepareForShutdown is not called when connection to libvirt is broken with event: libvirtError: internal error client socket is closed
• BZ - 951608 - After upgrading to RHEL6.3 NFS images permissions are 440 and qemu user cannot start 2.2 vms
• BZ - 951609 - Vdsm fails to decode application list if an application name containing Non-ASCII character is present on guest
• BZ - 951612 - Vdsm logs are filling filesystem up - logrotation of vdsm logs doesn't work correctly
• BZ - 951926 - [vdsm] Import more than once fails when VM is based on template (NFS only)
• BZ - 953645 - [vdsm] [scale] After libvirt failure vdsm restarts and starts responding to XML-RPC after a big delay
• BZ - 956072 - 3.1 - [vdsm] vdsm losses its connection to libvirt socket on certain case
• BZ - 956724 - The default migration_max_bandwidth (32MiBps) & default max_outgoing_migrations (5) will saturate a 1Gbps link.

CVEs

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References

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