RHBA-2018:0468 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated qemu-kvm-rhev packages that fix several bugs are now available for Red Hat Virtualization Host 7.

Description

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on AMD64 and Intel 64 systems. The qemu-kvm-rhev packages provide the user-space component for running virtual machines using KVM.

Users of qemu-kvm are advised to upgrade to these updated packages. After installing this update, shut down all running virtual machines. Once all virtual machines have shut down, start them again for this update to take effect.

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/2974891

Affected Products

• Red Hat Virtualization 4 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Virtualization 3 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Virtualization for IBM Power LE 4 for RHEL 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Virtualization for IBM Power LE 3 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1534649 - Qemu crashes when all fw_cfg slots are used [rhel-7.4.z]
• BZ - 1535125 - Mirror jobs for drives with iothreads make QEMU to abort with "block.c:1895: bdrv_attach_child: Assertion `bdrv_get_aio_context(parent_bs) == bdrv_get_aio_context(child_bs)' failed." [rhel-7.4.z]

CVEs

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References

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