RHBA-2017:1824 - 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, virtual machine snapshots that could not be restored could be created under certain circumstances, depending on software versions in the underlying stack. This has now been fixed so that the snapshots are created and restored in a compatible way. (BZ#1466348)

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 - 1426938 - [downstream clone - 3.6.11] Improve logging during live merge
• BZ - 1458856 - [downstream clone - 3.6.12][RHEL 7.4] vdsm fail to start - libvirt 3.2 changes md5 to gssapi in libvirt.conf for sasl
• BZ - 1462724 - [downstream clone - 3.6.12] vdsm sos plugin is broken for sos 3.4
• BZ - 1466348 - [downstream clone - 3.6.12] RHEL7.4 | Trying to start a VM after restore RAM snapshot fails - 'virDomainRestoreFlags() failed'
• BZ - 1467545 - RHEL7.4 with VDSM3.6 - vds::(getHardwareInfo) failed to retrieve hardware info
• BZ - 1468240 - vdsm should be aware of new bond options in new kernel and should take action upon the change to make the new options as vdsm defaults
• BZ - 1471857 - [downstream clone - 3.6.12] vdsm plugin - TypeError: add_copy_spec() takes exactly 2 arguments (3 given)

CVEs

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References

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