RHBA-2017:0675 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An update for virt-who is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The virt-who service collects information about the connection between the hypervisor and its virtual guests that are present in the system and provides the subscription manager with a mapping file containing the hypervisor-guest pairs. The service periodically queries the hypervisor to report its guests and changes the mapping file accordingly, making sure that the information stored in the subscription manager is accurate.

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 Release Notes and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 Technical Notes linked from the References section.

Users of virt-who are advised to upgrade to these updated packages.

Solution

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

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

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 1311962 - virt-who complains "ERROR: Unable to send data: Unable to send host/guest assocaition to the satellite"
• BZ - 1314205 - "WARNING" info is error when refresh interval below 60s
• BZ - 1318566 - virt-who still can work if no "env" option in /etc/virt-who.d/ config file
• BZ - 1318887 - "Starting virt-who" status is wrong when password can't be decrypted
• BZ - 1318915 - Virt-who can't filter/exclude uuid if there is a blank behind uuid
• BZ - 1320833 - virt-who send mapping info every refresh interval although no host/guests changes for local libvirt mode and vdsm mode
• BZ - 1321229 - Can't get "hypervisorVersion" when virt-who run at vdsm and rhevm mode
• BZ - 1321250 - Noisy info show in terminal when run virt-who with CLI
• BZ - 1322160 - virt-who in debugging mode does not get logs from rhsm
• BZ - 1322201 - virt-who hasn't handle RateLimitExceededException when work at kvm/vdsm mode
• BZ - 1323020 - Failed to communicate with subscription-manager as "Interrupted system call"
• BZ - 1323029 - virt-who will check .swp file in /etc/virt-who.d/
• BZ - 1325765 - "Virt backend 'env/cmdline' fails with exception" when re-register hypervisor to satellite
• BZ - 1326588 - Catch the "KeyboardInterrupt" when inputting "Ctrl+c" to end virt-who
• BZ - 1349640 - virt-who dies when attempting to start with FIPS active due to md5 hashlib
• BZ - 1361445 - [RHEL6] Virt-who should not add "." at the end of ESX hypervisor hostname if the domain name is not configured.
• BZ - 1372563 - [RHEVH7-ng-4.0]Virt-who failed to connect rhevm4.0 as "HTTP Error 404"
• BZ - 1409811 - Virt-who does not respect the interval setting
• BZ - 1410000 - [Satellite5.7]Failed to register hypervisor to another org

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.9_Release_Notes/index.html
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.9_Technical_Notes/index.html