RHBA-2018:3169 - 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 7.6 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 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 Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 7 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power 9 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM System z (Structure A) 7 s390x
• 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 - 1368341 - Virt-who still send mapping info to stage candlepin although run virt-who with --sam/--satellite6
• BZ - 1387800 - virt-who should report for every hypervisor detected its clusters name
• BZ - 1432140 - [RFE] virt-who should log when a duplicate hypervisor ID is discovered
• BZ - 1435538 - Virt-who's refresh interval is 60s when set VIRTWHO_INTERVAL=0
• BZ - 1447022 - virt-who doesn't collect the information when 'hypervisor_id=hostname' is set and hosts are filtered by UUID.
• BZ - 1469671 - Can't show "rhsm.connection INFO" in rhsm.log when running virt-who by "service virt-who restart"
• BZ - 1492074 - Problem with virt-who using Unicode characters in a hypervisor's account password
• BZ - 1502821 - Enabling VIRTWHO_DISABLE_ASYNC breaks virt-who reporting
• BZ - 1511746 - virt-who can't terminal when run it without --esx-password in one shot mode
• BZ - 1520236 - When receive 429 info for stage candlepin, virt-who show RateLimitExceededException
• BZ - 1522383 - No global option "background" exists, but it always prints warning info about the option not set.
• BZ - 1542652 - virt-who -c filename do not parse only the specified filename
• BZ - 1560461 - Virt-who crashes, when no owner is provided for RHEVM
• BZ - 1560598 - virt-who-0.19-8.el7_4 fails to validate server certificate when running on RHV Host 4.1
• BZ - 1569299 - Failed to get mapping info - virt-who - KeyError: 'config.network.dnsConfig.hostName'
• BZ - 1589896 - Rebase virt-who component to the latest upstream branch for RHEL 7.6
• BZ - 1596041 - Failed to run virt-who-0.22.2-5 with error "ImportError: No module named libvirt"

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.6_release_notes/index