RHBA-2018:2318 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat Virtualization Manager.

Description

The Red Hat Virtualization Manager is a centralized management platform that allows system administrators to view and manage virtual machines. The Manager provides a comprehensive range of features including search capabilities, resource management, live migrations, and virtual infrastructure provisioning.

The Manager is a JBoss Application Server application that provides several interfaces for accessing and interacting with the virtual environment, including an Administration Portal, a User Portal, and a Representational State Transfer (REST) Application Programming Interface (API).

Changes to the ovirt-engine component:

• There were inconsistencies in the following internal configuration options:
• HotPlugCpuSupported
• HotUnplugCpuSupported
• HotPlugMemorySupported
• HotUnplugMemorySupported
• IsMigrationSupported
• IsMemorySnapshotSupported
• IsSuspendSupported
• ClusterRequiredRngSourcesDefault

If you are having issues with these features, upgrade to Red Hat Virtualization 4.2.5+ to resolve the problem. (BZ#1605076)

• Previously, ovirt-provider-ovn configuration generated by engine-setup used the Manager's certificate authority in `/etc/pki/ovirt-engine/ca.pem` to verify the Manager's certificate. If the administrator replaced the TLS/SSL certificate, they also had to update the path to the new certificate authority file manually, in `/etc/ovirt-provider-ovn/conf.d/10-setup-ovirt-provider-ovn.conf`.

Now, ovirt-provider-ovn config generated by engine-setup uses the webserver certificate authority in `/etc/pki/ovirt-engine/apache-ca.pem` to verify the Manager's certificate.

For new installations, restarting the ovirt-provider-ovn service updates the replaced certificate.
For updated installations, you must manually check that `ovirt-ca-file` in `/etc/ovirt-provider-ovn/conf.d/10-setup-ovirt-provider-ovn.conf` points to `/etc/pki/ovirt-engine/apache-ca.pem`. (BZ#1607149)

• This update adds a feature to control pop up notifications. Once 3 or more notifications are showing, "Dismiss" and "Do not disturb" buttons will appear that allow the user to silence notifications. (BZ#1608362)
• This update adjusts virtual machine video RAM settings to provide enough RAM for any modern Linux guest operating system, not just RHEL 7. (BZ#1605198)
• Previously, when a virtual machine's cluster level was updated (for example, from 4.1 to 4.2), ejected CD-ROM devices could be lost, and the virtual machine was sometimes unable to use CDs anymore. This has now been fixed so that CD-ROM devices remain intact during upgrades regardless of whether they are in use or ejected. (BZ#1596234)

Changes to the rhvm-setup-plugins component:

• This update adds support for IBM POWER9 hypervisors with RHEL-ALT and POWER9 guests. It also adds support for POWER8 guests on a POWER9 hypervisor and live migration of POWER8 guests between POWER8 and POWER9 hypervisors. (BZ#1592320)

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 Manager 4.2 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1584993 - [downstream clone - 4.2.5] The Active VM snapshots table entry does not exist for a specific VM
• BZ - 1592320 - [downstream clone - 4.2.5] add POWER 9 to the 4.2 cluster level
• BZ - 1596234 - [downstream clone - 4.2.5] Virtual machine lost its cdrom device
• BZ - 1600595 - [downstream clone - 4.2.5] add AMD EPYC SSBD CPU
• BZ - 1601514 - [downstream clone - 4.2.5] [RFE] Changes that require Virtual Machine restart: name
• BZ - 1605076 - [downstream clone - 4.2.5] Config values inconsistency between RHV versions
• BZ - 1605133 - [downstream clone - 4.2.5] Skipped power management operation has misleading logs
• BZ - 1605198 - [downstream clone - 4.2.5] Hit Xorg Segmentation fault while installing rhel7.4 release guest in RHV 4.2 with QXL
• BZ - 1605206 - [downstream clone - 4.2.5] JsonMappingException in businessentities.storage.DiskImage prevents access to Engine
• BZ - 1607149 - [downstream clone - 4.2.5] OVN network synchronization not working after replacing the RHV-M tls certificate with a commercial one
• BZ - 1608347 - [downstream clone - 4.2.5] Virtual Machines search box is case sensitive post upgrading to RHV 4.2
• BZ - 1608348 - [downstream clone - 4.2.5] Live merge fails on the RHV-M Engine with "Invalid UUID string: payload" followed by exception.
• BZ - 1608362 - [downstream clone - 4.2.5] [RFE] Disable Event notification popup in admin portal

CVEs

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References

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