RHBA-2015:2206 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated virt-manager packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Description

Virtual Machine Manager (virt-manager) is a graphical tool for administering virtual machines for KVM, Xen, and Linux Containers (LXC). The virt-manager utility uses the libvirt API and can start, stop, add or remove virtualized devices, connect to a graphical or serial console, and view resource usage statistics for existing virtualized guests on local or remote machines.

The virt-manager packages have been upgraded to upstream version 1.2.1, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. (BZ#1197254)

This update also fixes the following bugs:

• Previously, when the user checked the "Copy host CPU information" option in virt-manager's "Configuration of Processor" menu during creation of a new guest, the guest failed to start and displayed a "host doesn’t support invariant TSC" error. With this update, virt-manager uses "host-model" mode when copying the host CPU configuration, which prevents the error. As a result, the guest now starts as expected in the described scenario. (BZ#1229163)
• Prior to this update, using the virt-clone utility to clone a guest to a path other than /var/lib/libvirt/images caused the disk in the created guest copy to be corrupted if the source disk was in a non-raw format. Now, virt-clone retains the disk format of the source and creates a disk copy with the correct format for any destination path, and the guest copy can thus be successfully started. (BZ#1207729)
• Changing the default guest name when creating a new guest in virt-manager previously caused the guest's disk name to be incorrectly based on the operating system rather than on the guest name. This update modifies virt-manager to properly obtain the name for the created virtual disk from the name of the guest. (BZ#1218278)

Users of virt-manager 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 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 7 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 Workstation 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 Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.3 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1046651 - should add "qemu-kvm-rhev" package to acceptance list when first connect to a qemu hypervisor
• BZ - 1047724 - Guest could not start when enable boot menu and 4 boot devices
• BZ - 1078156 - Saving Virtual Machine Process window will hang and could not quit when force off vm during saving.
• BZ - 1083537 - When running a KVM Windows guest, need to turn on all the "hv_*" flags
• BZ - 1154480 - Start mode can only show as 'none' in Network Interfaces though changed to 'onboot' or 'hotplug'
• BZ - 1165990 - cannot open guest console after input incorrect passwd for spice several times quickly
• BZ - 1167600 - virt-manager show a domain processor rather than a domain performance when input "-show-domain-performance" in terminal
• BZ - 1172108 - Some shortcut keys on hardware page do not take effect
• BZ - 1177099 - Use virt-clone failed to clone guest with disk type volume
• BZ - 1177113 - virt-manager cannot create a new guest on a remote xen host if specify the os type and version.
• BZ - 1177207 - virt-manager cannot show the right state of guest on a remote xen host.
• BZ - 1177210 - "Use --force to override" should not in the warning for virt-clone since "--force" option isn't available for virt-clone
• BZ - 1178584 - Wrong error message always show after tried to add non-qxl as the second video device.
• BZ - 1179138 - virt-manager does not show the new added hot-plug devices immediately after virsh command attach device successfully
• BZ - 1179652 - Creating ubuntu guest on rhel7 host fails (VMWare SVGA unavailable)
• BZ - 1180559 - Misleading "restart your domain" message on virt-install import completion
• BZ - 1183495 - Failed to clone guest with custom path via virt-manager
• BZ - 1185253 - Windows 2008 R2 or Win7 SP1 smp guest booting hang with hv_time enabled on OVMF env
• BZ - 1192768 - Wrong boot options example in virt-xml manual
• BZ - 1192875 - Improve the error info when using virt-xml --update to edit graphics devices
• BZ - 1195860 - virt-install rpm missing dependency on pygobject3-base
• BZ - 1204895 - RFE: virt-install: auto-add usb controller(s) for usbredir devices
• BZ - 1206097 - virt-manager adds subsequent disks as IDE although first one is VirtIO by default
• BZ - 1210265 - The progress bar shows wrong when set output disk under /root or /home
• BZ - 1210564 - virt-clone deals abnormal when set --file path under /
• BZ - 1210572 - The usage of manual doc and error message about 'sparse' should be consistent in virt-install
• BZ - 1213202 - [virt-manager]wrong error message always show after add the second one failed for a single supported device
• BZ - 1217302 - Fail to connect graphical console via some ipv6 address eg:"0::0"
• BZ - 1218278 - Allow renaming of disks in Virt-Manager
• BZ - 1219023 - ValueError: 'host.domain' does not appear to be an IPv4 or IPv6 network
• BZ - 1219427 - Error launching delete dialog when try to delete guest with disk type volume
• BZ - 1219629 - virt-manager 1.2.0 is unable to list VMs on hosts with old libvirt
• BZ - 1220322 - When launch virt-manager with option "--show-host-summary", connection details window comes several times
• BZ - 1222983 - wrong virt-xml example
• BZ - 1230611 - Install a guest failed with --hostdev bus.device when two usb device have same product and vendor id
• BZ - 1232599 - Would you like to reuse this storage? dialogue should not pop up when import an existent but not used image file
• BZ - 1235987 - New nfs storage pool cannot be added on virt-manager
• BZ - 1238981 - An error message box pops up continuously when opening hardware details window until close it.
• BZ - 1240938 - Fail to install guest when set "CPU default" to "Copy host cpu definition"
• BZ - 1244566 - Cannot create a new guest in virt-manager
• BZ - 1250382 - The usage of --pxe with --nonetworks is not prevented in virt-install
• BZ - 1254115 - the window doesn't show the details of PCI host devices or USB host devices when adding a PCI host device or USB host device

CVEs

(none)

References

• http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#normal