RHBA-2017:3407 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated ovirt-guest-agent packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are now available in the Red Hat Common channel of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Description

The ovirt-guest-agent allows the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager to receive internal guest events and retrieve information such as the IP address and list of installed applications from the guest. Additionally the guest agent allows the Manager to execute specific commands, such as shut down or reboot, on guest virtual machines.

The ovirt-guest-agent packages have been upgraded to upstream version 1.0.14, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. (BZ#1511924)

Users of ovirt-guest-agent are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs and add these enhancements.

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 Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1511924 - Rebase to upstream ovirt-guest-agent 1.0.14 for RHEV 4.2 (RHEL7)

CVEs

(none)

References

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