RHBA-2016:1365 - 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.

Changes to the vdsm component:

• Previously there was a problem with package dependencies on ppc64 platform following 3.6 GA release. This has been fixed and hosts can now be added/updated correctly. (BZ#1343070)
• Previously, when creating snapshots the backing volume reference included an image directory component. Each time a snapshot was merged, the image directory component of the backing volume reference was duplicated until the backing volume reference became too long. In this state the image could not be used. Now, since all volumes of an image always reside in the same directory, the image directory component has been removed from new backing volume references. Now the backing volume references do not grow in length after snapshots are merged. (BZ#1336367)

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 - 1336367 - [z-stream clone - 3.6.7] Growing backing file length in qcow2 header causes 'Backing file name too long' error.
• BZ - 1339479 - [downsream clone - 3.6.7] No failure message appears when setting a power management test fails
• BZ - 1339569 - REBASE BUG: Building VDSM Package for 3.6.7 release
• BZ - 1343070 - Broken Dependencies for vdsm on ppc64le

CVEs

(none)

References

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