RHBA-2017:2084 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An update for virt-who is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

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 7.4 Release 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 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 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 Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.4 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.5 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.4 ppc64
• 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 Server - TUS 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 7 s390x
• 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 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 Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1240728 - Support asynchronous guest reporting API
• BZ - 1369107 - RFE config files under /etc/virt-who.d/ are picked up no matter what the extension is
• BZ - 1372620 - It show "Traceback" info when run virt-who in CLI without env/owner at remote libvirt mode
• BZ - 1388577 - virt-who does not respect encoding specified in XML (ex. UTF-8)
• BZ - 1392390 - virt-who default interval has changed
• BZ - 1405967 - [RFE] Ability to filter virt-who hosts based on hostnames using wildcard
• BZ - 1415497 - virt-who doesn't work with rhev4 out of box
• BZ - 1426058 - [RFE] request to provide option "--password" for virt-who-password command
• BZ - 1429752 - Rebase virt-who component to the latest upstream branch for RHEL 7.4
• BZ - 1436517 - Failed to run virt-who for rhevm4.1 with "KeyError: 'major'"
• BZ - 1436811 - [RFE] Respect the interval setting independently for each destination
• BZ - 1437228 - virt-who fails to report VMs when VM name/description contains non-ascii characters
• BZ - 1437229 - Show "NameError: global name 'virt' is not defined" when remote libvirt mode with hypervisor = hwuuid
• BZ - 1439317 - multiple conf files fail to send updates to server
• BZ - 1442337 - Failed to run virt-who for all the hypervisors with error message: "No report available for source"
• BZ - 1444718 - It should distinguish to show "Duplicate report for config "xxx" found, ignoring" in rhsm log
• BZ - 1444797 - virt-who processes cannot be killed immediately by CLI via 'Ctrl+C' with esx mode
• BZ - 1447264 - Virt-who can't be started with only one of hypervisor configs failed to be decrypted
• BZ - 1448267 - When receive 429 info for stage candlepin, it will loop to show log "Trying again in 60" every 60s.
• BZ - 1450747 - virt-who terminate by auto after run once with wrong rhsm_hostname/port/prefix

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/7.4_Release_Notes/index.html