RHBA-2020:2399 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An update for redhat-virtualization-host is now available for Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Description

The redhat-virtualization-host packages provide the Red Hat Virtualization Host. These packages include redhat-release-virtualization-host. Red Hat Virtualization Hosts (RHVH) are installed using a special build of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with only the packages required to host virtual machines. RHVH features a Cockpit user interface for monitoring the host's resources and performing administrative tasks.

Includes fixes for CVE-2018-14404.

Changes to the redhat-virtualization-host component:

• The Red Hat Virtualization Host could not be deployed successfully on systems with an AMD Epyc CPU.

In this release, Red Hat Virtualization Host deployment is successful. (BZ#1796967)

Changes to the imgbased component:

• Before this update, imgbase layout --init failed during Red Hat Virtualization Host installation with Kickstart.

In this release, the installation with Kickstart succeeds. (BZ#1812574)

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/2974891

Affected Products

• Red Hat Virtualization 4 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Virtualization Host 4 for RHEL 7 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1812574 - imgbase layout --init failed during the kickstart installation
• BZ - 1826378 - Rebase redhat-virtualization-host on RHV 4.3.10

CVEs

(none)

References

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