Synopsis

libguestfs bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated libguestfs packages that fix several bugs and add two enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Description

The libguestfs packages contain a library, which is used for accessing and modifying virtual machine (VM) disk images.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• The virt-v2v tool previously failed to download images for conversion from VMware ESX and vCenter hosts. This update prevents unintended rewrites of the download path, which allows the virt-v2v download and conversion to proceed as expected on the mentioned hosts. (BZ#1256823)
• When using the virt-sysprep utility to create a Red Hat Enterprise Linux guest template, the "at" program in the resulting guest could not be used. This update ensures that virt-sysprep does not delete /var/spool/at/.SEQ files in these guests, and "at" now works as expected. (BZ#1238579)
• Previously, it was impossible to boot the virt-p2v ISO image on hardware that used the firmware for Broadcome 10GbE cards and certain other devices. The missing firmware packages have been added to the virt-p2v image, and it can now properly be booted on any hardware supported by Red Hat Enterpise Linux 7. (BZ#983878)
• When using the virt-v2v tool to convert guest images in the qcow2 format into Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization images, the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager GUI incorrectly displayed the guest's OS type as "Other OS". This problem has been fixed, and the OS type is now displayed correctly. (BZ#1219857)

In addition, this update adds the following enhancements:

• The libguestfs-winsupport subpackage can now be used for performing virtual-to-virtual (virt-v2v) and physical-to-virtual (virt-p2v) conversions of Windows guests. However, with several exceptions such as virt-win-reg, it is no longer possible to use most libguestfs tools on Windows disk images. (BZ#1240276, BZ#1243493)
• KVM now supports virt-v2v conversions of UEFI firmware. As a result, the virt-v2v tool can be used to convert VMware guests with UEFI firmware to KVM guests. (BZ#1184690)

Users of libguestfs are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs and add these enhancements.

Solution

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

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.4 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.3 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.5 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.4 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.3 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.5 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.3 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.3 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.3 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 823758 - p2v client should have largest number restrictions for CPU and Memory settings
• BZ - 824867 - Windows guest with dynamic disk can not boot on rhev after conversion by virt-p2v
• BZ - 855059 - RFE: virt-p2v: display more information about network devices such as topology, bonding, etc.
• BZ - 889082 - [RFE] virt-v2v should check whether guest with same name exist on target first then transfer the disk
• BZ - 1146007 - Input/output error during conversion of esx guest.
• BZ - 1146832 - virt-v2v fail to convert guest with disk type volume
• BZ - 1159030 - libvirt backend does not set RBD password
• BZ - 1167921 - p2v: No Network Connection dialog
• BZ - 1167922 - p2v: No virtual console
• BZ - 1168144 - warning: fstrim: fstrim: /sysroot/: FITRIM ioctl failed: Operation not supported (ignored) when convert win2003 guest from xen server
• BZ - 1168626 - Tracker: Build RHEL 7.2 - based virt-p2v ISO
• BZ - 1172660 - virt-resize --expand fails on ubuntu-14.04.img image
• BZ - 1174073 - The listen address for vnc is changed after conversion by virt-v2v
• BZ - 1174200 - New virt-v2v failure: CURL: Error opening file: NSS: client certificate not found (nickname not specified): Invalid argument
• BZ - 1175196 - "parse-environment" and "parse-environment-list" fail to parse "LIBGUESTFS_TRACE = 0"
• BZ - 1175676 - Typo error in 'help ping-daemon'
• BZ - 1176493 - virt-v2v ignores sound device when convert xen guest to local kvm
• BZ - 1176591 - virt-v2v -o vdsm doesn't work with multiple data domains
• BZ - 1176598 - virt-v2v -o vdsm write ovf to specify domain
• BZ - 1177910 - Libguestfs fails to locate the qemu-kvm on POWER8(BE) host.
• BZ - 1182463 - "mknod-b", "mknod-c", and "mkfifo" do not strip non-permissions bits from "mode"
• BZ - 1186850 - Update RHEV APT.exe
• BZ - 1187231 - rhsrvany crashes when run as a service
• BZ - 1196705 - libguestfs requires selinux-policy, but selinux-policy should be optional
• BZ - 1199605 - FTBFS: requires file >= 5.11-22 but file = 5.11-21 is in release
• BZ - 1201507 - fuse missing from BuildRequires
• BZ - 1209225 - Allow configurable location for virtio drivers
• BZ - 1211321 - kernel dependency dropped between libguestfs-1.28.1-1.18.el7 and RHEL 7.2
• BZ - 1212002 - yum install guestfish fails on RHEL 7.1
• BZ - 1212677 - guestfish fails to add a remote image with ssh protocol
• BZ - 1222975 - virt-p2v network does not start
• BZ - 1224486 - virt-resize should preserve GPT partition UUIDs, else EFI guests become unbootable
• BZ - 1224675 - ppc64le: virt-sparsify fails to make a disk image sparse, the output log indicates it gets the wrong parameter in the disk create step
• BZ - 1224676 - ppc64le: virt-resize/virt-build/virt-sysprep/virt-customize fail to execute and return the error "Segmentation fault (core dumped)"
• BZ - 1225467 - virt-sparsify refuses to work on qcow2 files
• BZ - 1226794 - "Doing conversion……" still shows after cancel the conversion from virt-p2v client
• BZ - 1229262 - virt-p2v doesn't work under no GUI mode
• BZ - 1229340 - virt-p2v no GUI mode appends \n to the final command line parameter
• BZ - 1229385 - virt-p2v in kernel command line mode should power off the machine after conversion
• BZ - 1230412 - virt-v2v should ignore bogus kernel entries in grub config
• BZ - 1232192 - Virt-v2v gives an error on a blank disk: part_get_parttype: unknown signature, of the output: BYT;
• BZ - 1234351 - virt-v2v Support for Fedora virtio-win drivers
• BZ - 1237869 - Virtio drivers are not installed for windows 2008 guests by virt-v2v
• BZ - 1238579 - virt-sysprep at cleanup deletes /var/spool/at/.SEQ which results in failing at
• BZ - 1239053 - virt-v2v error reporting when grub.conf cannot be parsed by Augeas
• BZ - 1240274 - Remove references in error messages to libguestfs-winsupport
• BZ - 1240276 - Add checks to ensure libguestfs-winsupport functionality only available to virt-v2v and virt-p2v
• BZ - 1246032 - virt-v2v: error: libguestfs error: umount_all: umount: /sysroot: umount: /sysroot: target is busy
• BZ - 1248678 - Close all incoming ports on virt-p2v ISO
• BZ - 1251909 - Option -oa preallocated -of qcow2 of virt-v2v didn't work efficiently
• BZ - 1256222 - virt-p2v no GUI mode:error opening control connection to $ip:22:unexpected …rompt
• BZ - 1257895 - [RHEV][V2V] virt-v2v ignores NIC if interface source/@network or source/@bridge is an empty string
• BZ - 1258342 - extra slashes in vcenter URL confuses virt-v2v
• BZ - 1260590 - Wrong graphics protocal and video type set for guest after convert to rhev 3.6 by virt-v2v
• BZ - 1260689 - RFE: V2V to check and warn user to disable group policy and anti virus on Windows guests
• BZ - 1261281 - Failed to show guest in export domain after converted by virt-v2v to rhev 3.5

CVEs

(none)

References