Synopsis

vdsm 3.6.0 bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated vdsm packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are now available.

Description

VDSM is a management module that serves as a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager agent on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor or Red Hat Enterprise Linux hosts.

A list of bugs fixed in this update is available in the Technical Notes
book:
https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtu
alization/3.6/html-single/Technical_Notes/index.html

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 Virtualization 3 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Virtualization for IBM Power LE 3 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 866484 - vm state keeps changing from up to non-responsive between libvirt virDomainGetBlockInfo queries
• BZ - 922744 - [RFE][HC] – allow gluster mount with additional nodes, currently only one gluster hosts is mounted.
• BZ - 980139 - Need to add deps on kernel] vdsm iscsi failover taking too long during controller maintenance
• BZ - 998239 - [SCALE][Live Storage Migration] [NFS] Failed Live Storage Migration on NFS Data Center under heavy load
• BZ - 1058732 - [RFE] Allow live storage migration from block domain to a file domain
• BZ - 1058749 - [RFE] Allow live storage migration from file domain to a block domain
• BZ - 1072868 - [RHEV TRACKER] Usage of the relative pathes for backing disks impedes the work of libguestfs (RHEV 3.1)
• BZ - 1082638 - VDSM failed to start correctly due to sudo hanging.
• BZ - 1100283 - VDSM to require kernel-2.6.32-465 on EL for NFSv4 fixes.
• BZ - 1112861 - [Blocked] iSCSI multipath fails to work and only succeeds after adding configuration values for network using sysctl
• BZ - 1113583 - RHEV: Require qemu fix for "Cannot start VMs that have more than 23 snapshots."
• BZ - 1117385 - LUN resize not picked up by multipath on VDSM refresh
• BZ - 1118349 - [vdsm] Creating DataCenter 3.5 using master domain V1 fails with InquireNotSupportedError
• BZ - 1119020 - [RFE] Remove branding patches
• BZ - 1123052 - [HC] Validate glusterfs volume parameters required for ovirt storage domains
• BZ - 1126206 - [RFE] Use one instance of IOProcess per SD
• BZ - 1127117 - VDSM: Require newer lvm version (2.02.100-8) and certify fix for "Concurrent activations of same LV race against each other with 'Device or resource busy'"
• BZ - 1128458 - [vdsm] - refactor/improve getPid()
• BZ - 1128715 - [scale] unclosed files refernces hit the performance
• BZ - 1131460 - vdsm package causes logrotate to trigger selinux AVC alerts
• BZ - 1134256 - Vdsm returns successfully even though hotunplugNic does not complete in libvirt
• BZ - 1138690 - [SCALE] snapshot deletion -> heavy swapping on SPM
• BZ - 1142776 - rhev-m stops syncing the VM statuses after massive live VM migration which fails.
• BZ - 1149262 - getVdsHardwareInfo incomplete for IBM Power 8
• BZ - 1151838 - [vdsm] Scan alignment fails with a VirtAlignError
• BZ - 1155583 - [Block storage] Basic Live Merge after Delete Snapshot fails
• BZ - 1156194 - [RHEV-M] Time sync after resuming from suspend
• BZ - 1158825 - [scale] storage domain activation may time out if a large number of block domains is in use
• BZ - 1164576 - iSCSi connections are doubled upon detach-attach
• BZ - 1169338 - move set-saslpasswd for libvirt to configurator
• BZ - 1169512 - "VMPathNotExists" error text in 'storage_exception.py' is grammatically incorrect.
• BZ - 1172186 - Incorrect multipath.conf on RHEV-H 7.0 (likely RHEL 7.0 as well)
• BZ - 1173929 - Vdsm reports wrong NIC state, Error while sampling stats
• BZ - 1176673 - [Rhel7.1] After live storage migration on block storage vdsm extends migrated drive using all free space in the vg
• BZ - 1179696 - [scale] Reduce time spent in processing of guest agent messages
• BZ - 1179950 - [scale] Excessive cpu usage in FileStorageDomain.getAllVolumes
• BZ - 1181233 - Problem parsing stomp frames where trailing \0 was cut off
• BZ - 1182094 - vdsm NUMA code not effective, slowing down statistics retrieval
• BZ - 1187244 - [RHEL 7.0 + 7.1] Host configure with DHCP is losing connectivity after some time - dhclient is not running
• BZ - 1188251 - After failure to setupNetworks: restore-nets with unified persistence does not restore pre-vdsm ifcfg
• BZ - 1188543 - Host fails to flip to maintenance mode due to failed live migrations.
• BZ - 1191549 - VDSM can not parse Infinity speed for Throughput tests
• BZ - 1194553 - VDSM script reset network configuration on every reboot when based on predefined bond
• BZ - 1196072 - Failed to auto shrink qcow block volumes on merge
• BZ - 1197292 - [3.5-6.6/7.1] Failed to retrieve iscsi lun from hardware iscsi after register to RHEV-M
• BZ - 1198512 - Live-deleting a snapshot of preallocated disk results in a block domain using up all available space
• BZ - 1199014 - RHEV [RHEL7.1] - Require qemu fix for "Cannot start VMs that have more than 23 snapshots"
• BZ - 1199070 - Building ioprocess for PPC architecture
• BZ - 1200467 - Vdsm upgrade 3.4 >> 3.5.1 doesn't restart vdsmd service
• BZ - 1203891 - RHEV disconnects when remotely connecting to windows machines.
• BZ - 1205058 - Long filename support for Windows VM payload
• BZ - 1206231 - Dropping el6 support from vdsm.spec
• BZ - 1206884 - HE deployment fails due to libvirtError: internal error client socket is closed
• BZ - 1206892 - vdsm rpm upgrade does not update multipath.conf
• BZ - 1207610 - [vdsm] errors: value of 'vcpu_period' is out of range [1000, 1000000]
• BZ - 1207705 - [vdsm] Template creation failure exception due to "CopyImageError" is not logged correctly
• BZ - 1209014 - vdsm might report interfaces without IP address when using a slow DHCP server
• BZ - 1209034 - [vdsm] Template creation on XtremeIO with pre-allocated disks on block storage fails with "CopyImageError: low level Image copy failed"
• BZ - 1211330 - Storage migration removes snapshot preview from the storage
• BZ - 1215387 - [RFE][RHEV] obsolete validateStorageServerConnection
• BZ - 1215610 - Windows 7 experiencing time drift under high CPU load
• BZ - 1215967 - [HE] Failed to deploy additional host using NFS
• BZ - 1217401 - [SCALE] Adding direct lun to a VM times out
• BZ - 1219630 - report hook stderr to Engine if it fails an action
• BZ - 1219903 - 20150421 build floods vdsm.log with "message: metadata not found: Requested metadata element is not present"
• BZ - 1220993 - No VM's core dumps after kill vm EL7
• BZ - 1222564 - regression for EL7: spmprotect always reboot when fencing vdsm on systemd
• BZ - 1223530 - vdsm fails to read dhclient lease config "expire never"
• BZ - 1224601 - [VMFEX_Hook] Migration fail with 'HookError' when using vmfex profile and vdsm-hook-vmfex-dev hook in rhev-M
• BZ - 1226651 - Error when trying add PPC64LE host to engine
• BZ - 1226911 - vmchannel thread consumes 100% of CPU
• BZ - 1229177 - Vdsm for EL7 should not allow engine version lower than 3.5
• BZ - 1230208 - Ballooning is working on VM without Guest Agent
• BZ - 1232481 - VDSM: Live merge fails after a disk containing a snapshot has been extended
• BZ - 1233255 - ppc64le hosts should support only 3.6+ compatibility level
• BZ - 1234293 - Having RHEVM network on a bonded VLAN together with other networks screws up network-config files
• BZ - 1239062 - vdsm log is flooded with JsonRpcServer and stompReactor messages
• BZ - 1242092 - [vdsm] SpmStart fails after "offline" upgrade of DC with V1 master domain to 3.5
• BZ - 1247058 - getVdsStas crashed if host have numa node with 0 memory
• BZ - 1247075 - [scale] high vdsm threads overhead
• BZ - 1248035 - VM migration: migration failed since vdsm failed to run VM on remove host
• BZ - 1248105 - USB passthrough doesn't work when qemu runs under non-root user
• BZ - 1251899 - VM stuck in wait for launch after update vm IO Threads value
• BZ - 1256252 - Vdsm should recover ifcfg files in case they are no longer exist and recover all networks on the server
• BZ - 1256446 - OSError: [Errno 24] Too many open files while running automation tests
• BZ - 1256949 - KSM sleep_millisecs bellow 10ms for systems above 16GB of RAM
• BZ - 1259247 - [7.2-3.6] Failed to approve RHEV-H in RHEV-M 3.5
• BZ - 1259310 - connectStorageServer is failing cause one object has no attribute 'Timeout'
• BZ - 1260409 - Migration 7.2->7.1 failed since libvirtError in 'virDomainMigrateToURI2'
• BZ - 1261007 - Display network is ignored > vdsm listens to all networks - listen="0" instead of listening to the display network
• BZ - 1261531 - Extend of VG does not check if additional devices are already part of it
• BZ - 1261918 - [scale] RHEV-M UI shows incorrect number of VMs are running on Host.
• BZ - 1269424 - VDSM memory leak
• BZ - 1286997 - ship vdsm-hook-vmfex-dev with Vdsm
• BZ - 1291930 - Assigning direct LUN fails with error "scsi-block 'lun' devices do not support the serial property"
• BZ - 1296936 - Vm.status() causes crash of MoM GuestManager
• BZ - 1301709 - CopyImage on iscsi sometimes fails when cloning a vm from snapshot.
• BZ - 1308375 - Live snapshot deletion causing actual disk size to grow

CVEs

(none)

References

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

Red Hat Virtualization 3 for RHEL 7

SRPM
vdsm-4.17.23-0.el7ev.src.rpm	SHA-256: 95c78389fcc0e1fbafa3e588619bd19c4ae141546a6e5d4f2582fd4cd7b33c19
x86_64
vdsm-4.17.23-0.el7ev.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: dca5ff52939fe7e5b29691133dfd3834f58811339659f8ad09ef74a290e97597
vdsm-cli-4.17.23-0.el7ev.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 708f233f450f62b5ed272562fe8e12b4d107456e40356c01c332b50c91c66b13
vdsm-hook-ethtool-options-4.17.23-0.el7ev.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: e7e4e65120bea685d97d6aef2e0bd93465979e523d61dfac91fbf0ea7fc25eef
vdsm-hook-macspoof-4.17.23-0.el7ev.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: dfee0a00e111c8e8898e61540ed696a86fefde41c47a14554784cc616cd49d8a
vdsm-hook-openstacknet-4.17.23-0.el7ev.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 2f0337cd2ae264dbc8a5f67f329a94c4bcbe68f436f10a0fdd352b9c887c7610
vdsm-hook-vhostmd-4.17.23-0.el7ev.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 82ffe00c6d19a4ed872801d262d847bb5284686379f80fd658b39af9eb1ca1b4
vdsm-hook-vmfex-dev-4.17.23-0.el7ev.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 1219ae0c88fbfcc0f723bc7fed399e28f154c65826bb14c3b0f759e52bd77b0a
vdsm-infra-4.17.23-0.el7ev.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 91101cff6a141b9e8dff4df82e365ceb988bab1e160521460d8dac2283970cbb
vdsm-jsonrpc-4.17.23-0.el7ev.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: bd2565735dfa44f67e15bf783e86b92128c5c633595572598e3a5b8e895f18c9
vdsm-python-4.17.23-0.el7ev.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 347e76554a0aec6be2c934b7760bbca2ef469d56d4002ed541805126430fa433
vdsm-xmlrpc-4.17.23-0.el7ev.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: e5d4ea7cfc7c3685cfe0deeefa974e0de439ad5689aeab1c04e204acd12d1704
vdsm-yajsonrpc-4.17.23-0.el7ev.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 0d5a238235b10bc2f7157a649dabce91ccfaa98390c2493c04bffb56730eda03

Red Hat Virtualization for IBM Power LE 3

SRPM
vdsm-4.17.23-0.el7ev.src.rpm	SHA-256: 95c78389fcc0e1fbafa3e588619bd19c4ae141546a6e5d4f2582fd4cd7b33c19
ppc64le
vdsm-4.17.23-0.el7ev.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: dca5ff52939fe7e5b29691133dfd3834f58811339659f8ad09ef74a290e97597
vdsm-cli-4.17.23-0.el7ev.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 708f233f450f62b5ed272562fe8e12b4d107456e40356c01c332b50c91c66b13
vdsm-debug-plugin-4.17.23-0.el7ev.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: ba0872065ca7d18bd354b0404ed1af073ff12452564699b0d6451ce481f340e9
vdsm-hook-ethtool-options-4.17.23-0.el7ev.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: e7e4e65120bea685d97d6aef2e0bd93465979e523d61dfac91fbf0ea7fc25eef
vdsm-hook-macspoof-4.17.23-0.el7ev.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: dfee0a00e111c8e8898e61540ed696a86fefde41c47a14554784cc616cd49d8a
vdsm-hook-openstacknet-4.17.23-0.el7ev.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 2f0337cd2ae264dbc8a5f67f329a94c4bcbe68f436f10a0fdd352b9c887c7610
vdsm-hook-vhostmd-4.17.23-0.el7ev.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 82ffe00c6d19a4ed872801d262d847bb5284686379f80fd658b39af9eb1ca1b4
vdsm-hook-vmfex-dev-4.17.23-0.el7ev.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 1219ae0c88fbfcc0f723bc7fed399e28f154c65826bb14c3b0f759e52bd77b0a
vdsm-infra-4.17.23-0.el7ev.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 91101cff6a141b9e8dff4df82e365ceb988bab1e160521460d8dac2283970cbb
vdsm-jsonrpc-4.17.23-0.el7ev.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: bd2565735dfa44f67e15bf783e86b92128c5c633595572598e3a5b8e895f18c9
vdsm-python-4.17.23-0.el7ev.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 347e76554a0aec6be2c934b7760bbca2ef469d56d4002ed541805126430fa433
vdsm-xmlrpc-4.17.23-0.el7ev.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: e5d4ea7cfc7c3685cfe0deeefa974e0de439ad5689aeab1c04e204acd12d1704
vdsm-yajsonrpc-4.17.23-0.el7ev.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 0d5a238235b10bc2f7157a649dabce91ccfaa98390c2493c04bffb56730eda03