RHEA-2016:0859 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

An update for virt-who is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8.

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 6.8 Release Notes and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 Technical 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 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 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 IBM z Systems 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 1207984 - virt-who will regenerate a new original process after restart it
• BZ - 1216278 - "Error in communication with subscription manager as BadStatusLine" when unregister system
• BZ - 1220977 - RFE: virt-who limit the interval at no less than 1 minute
• BZ - 1224190 - "service virt-who stop" failed when set "VIRTWHO_INTERVAL" <= 5
• BZ - 1227259 - [RFE] virt-who should support connecting rhevm and hyperV through proxy
• BZ - 1229211 - virt-who can't synchronise guest's info updating instantly when virt-who run at libvirt mode and refresh interval< 10s
• BZ - 1230041 - virt-who refresh interval is 15min although setting interval 1 hour
• BZ - 1231065 - [REF]Support reporting state of virtual machines on all known hypervisors
• BZ - 1231602 - virt-who can't connect to vcenter instantly after reboot vcenter
• BZ - 1233074 - hypervisor hwuuid is not supported in hyperv backend
• BZ - 1249928 - virt-who does not log out of vcenter
• BZ - 1258765 - virt-who rebase
• BZ - 1259038 - virt-who fake backend not working with virt-who.noarch-0.14-1.el6_6sat.noarch
• BZ - 1272149 - filter_host_uuid skips all hosts when hypervisor_id set to hostname
• BZ - 1281715 - running virt-who in big vmware environments results in to fast growing logfiles
• BZ - 1284037 - Traceback displayed on GoneException received from candlepin
• BZ - 1293821 - virt-who processes(PPID != 1) cannot be killed immediately after unregister system
• BZ - 1294746 - Disabled debug option for virt-who local libvirt mode, the mapping json info still can be showed
• BZ - 1294777 - virt-who should show some info after 60s if no host/guests changes for libvirt mode
• BZ - 1295644 - virt-who can't send two hypervisors' host/guests info at the same time, need to wait for 60s
• BZ - 1297623 - "virt-who -o -d" can't exist immediately when failed to connect hypervisor
• BZ - 1300512 - oneshot mode doesn't work when starting as service
• BZ - 1308416 - [Bug] /var/run/virt-who.pid is world-writable
• BZ - 1309165 - virt-who trigger event can't send the report to server immediately for ESX and KVM
• BZ - 1310977 - Error description of "interval mode" on virt-who man page
• BZ - 1311884 - Error in communication with subscription manager as retry_after is "NoneType"
• BZ - 1312228 - Failed to get mapping info if one of the esx host is unreachable after reboot vcenter
• BZ - 1313197 - virt-who go to satellite6 check logic although system register to satellite5.7
• BZ - 1315547 - virt-who still print null mapping info to stdout when hyperv mode with "hypervisor_id=hwuuid"

CVEs

(none)

References

• http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#normal