RHEA-2016:0397 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

Updated rhevm-guest-agent packages that fix several bugs and add various
enhancements are now available.

Description

The rhevm-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.

Changes to the rhevm-guest-agent component:

• With this release, cloud-init packages are tracked in the reported list of

installed packages on Linux distributions. (BZ#1206102)

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 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1169904 - qemu-guest-agent is requested but unavailable for installation of rhevm-guest-agent (el6.ppc64)
• BZ - 1206102 - [RFE][guest-agent] add cloud-init into default apps list
• BZ - 1224652 - RHEL6 - Rebase to ovirt-3.6 branch

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)