RHEA-2017:0997 - Product Enhancement 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 through which the virtual environment can be accessed and interacted with, including an Administration Portal, a User Portal, and a Representational State Transfer (REST) Application Programming Interface (API).

A list of bugs fixed in this update is available in the Technical Notes book:

https://access.redhat.com/documentation//en-us/red_hat_virtualization/4.1/html-single/technical_notes

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 4.1 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 994283 - [RFE] Per cluster MAC address pool
• BZ - 1038550 - [RFE] RHEV-M portal should highlight primary interface in bond configured using 'primary' option in custom mode.
• BZ - 1066135 - [RFE][scale] Support more than 500 LVs per block storage domain
• BZ - 1081536 - [RFE] Making VM pools able to allocate VMs to multiple storage domains to balance disk usage
• BZ - 1097589 - [RFE] [7.3] Hot Un-Plug CPU - Support dynamic virtual CPU deallocation
• BZ - 1186817 - VM fails to start after changing IDE disk boot order
• BZ - 1201020 - [RFE] Audit load balancing migrations for more visibility
• BZ - 1226206 - [RFE] Ability to choose new Mac address from pool when importing VMs from data storage domain.
• BZ - 1256500 - [RFE][scale] Snapshot deletion of poweredoff VM takes longer time.
• BZ - 1269132 - [ALL_LANG] Unlocalized warning messages on volume->geo replication->add pane.
• BZ - 1289290 - [RFE] Live Migration dynamic cpu throttling for auto-convergence (RHEV)
• BZ - 1300959 - rhevm should require a virtio-win version that provides win10 drivers within vfd
• BZ - 1301067 - api.vms.get(name) sometimes returns None when the vm exists
• BZ - 1305011 - Sorting of LUNs doesn't work
• BZ - 1317584 - VM Maintenance reason popup not visible in admin portal
• BZ - 1320774 - [RFE] Add support to specify metadata on column to be able to use comma separated list of values during search
• BZ - 1333436 - [RFE] drop Legacy USB
• BZ - 1341106 - HA vms do not start after successful power-management.
• BZ - 1344521 - [RFE] when GA data are missing, a warning should be shown in webadmin asking the user to install/start the GA
• BZ - 1346283 - Improve 'Map control-alt-del' label text
• BZ - 1348405 - RHEV: limit number of images in an image chain (snapshots)
• BZ - 1349877 - Clicking on "feedback" button opens a 404 page
• BZ - 1356767 - Special characters in VMware cluster and data center name should be handled correctly
• BZ - 1357882 - Sort the 'Use Host' list alphabetically in the add Direct Lun dialog
• BZ - 1365937 - [RFE] [moVirt] Android mobile oVirt client
• BZ - 1365938 - [RFE] [tech preview] Support q35-based machine type in addition to i440fx
• BZ - 1366786 - [InClusterUpgrade] Possible race condition with large amount of VMs in cluster
• BZ - 1367924 - [RFE] Improve HE setup indications in UI
• BZ - 1368101 - RHV-M Web UI performance degrades over time
• BZ - 1369046 - User can't assign CPU profile after upgrade from 3.6 to 4.0
• BZ - 1369753 - It is not possible to deach CD from a VM
• BZ - 1372320 - "Started - Finished" Messages in the audit log without any information
• BZ - 1372743 - Database transaction cancellations result in failed moveImage operations
• BZ - 1375076 - [downstream clone - 3.6.10] Live merge fails after a disk containing a snapshot has been extended
• BZ - 1375379 - VM names not updating on host side after being renamed from RHEV manager GUI.
• BZ - 1375646 - cannot edit host: Uncaught exception occurred
• BZ - 1376454 - [RFE] Document RHEV-H 3.6 (7.3) to RHVH 4.0 (7.3) migration
• BZ - 1379074 - [storage] Improve logging for ExportVM flow
• BZ - 1379771 - Introduce a 'force' flag for updating a storage server connection
• BZ - 1381322 - VM disks in the VM configuration gui are shown in no particular order.
• BZ - 1382746 - Upgrade from 3.6 to 4.0 fails on 04_00_0140_convert_memory_snapshots_to_disks.sql
• BZ - 1382807 - [UX] NUMA pinning dialog should prevent unsupported layout
• BZ - 1383224 - RHVH-NG is automatically activated after upgrade.
• BZ - 1383229 - [downstream clone - 4.1.0] Host is marked as non responsive after upgrade
• BZ - 1383329 - Snapshot restore fails with NPE
• BZ - 1386507 - [RFE] better logging of cluster version upgrade failures
• BZ - 1387625 - Custom Locale settings on deploy of new virtual machine with sysprep option doesn't work
• BZ - 1388596 - Virt-v2v is failing with python error when importing VM from KVM
• BZ - 1388724 - [RFE] Guest Support for Windows Server 2016 in RHV.
• BZ - 1388963 - Unable to change vm Pool Configuration. Receive "Uncaught exception occurred. Please try reloading the page".
• BZ - 1389549 - UX help button for iSCSI Multipathing broken
• BZ - 1390484 - Postgres DB overloads the CPU when specific bookmarks queries are triggered.
• BZ - 1393270 - Database table, vm_dynamic, grows without limit until the disk fills up.
• BZ - 1393345 - ovirt-fence-kdump-listener service unit file for systemd does not contain dependency on postgresql
• BZ - 1394114 - Migration of HE Disk ends up in Locked State
• BZ - 1395462 - [Vm Pool] VMs are created with duplicate MAC addresses
• BZ - 1396781 - Create a new disk while creating new vm needs to press OK button twice.
• BZ - 1397422 - [scale] - TestOnly: test scale of RHV with 1000 disks in a single block based storage-domain
• BZ - 1400366 - default_route custom property
• BZ - 1401077 - Improve OVA import compatibility
• BZ - 1402789 - Engine - Prevent deactivation of hosted engine storage domain
• BZ - 1404130 - Network Interfaces with duplicate MACs are automatically unplugged when VM started as stateless
• BZ - 1404400 - virt-v2v fails to convert a vm from vmware to rhev if the disk name has a space.
• BZ - 1406243 - Out of range CPU APIC ID
• BZ - 1406572 - Uncaught exception is received when trying to create a vm from User portal without power user role assigned
• BZ - 1408297 - [ReBranding] Require spice-client-msi packages not rhevm-spice-client
• BZ - 1408790 - After hotplugging CPU results in frequent KeyError.
• BZ - 1409551 - upgrade engine from 4.0.5 to 4.1 failed (unless rhevm-setup-plugins is updated manually first)
• BZ - 1410090 - [Docs][RFE][Admin][VMM] RHV hot unplug CPU
• BZ - 1411460 - With vm_evenly_distributed cluster scheduling policy, all VMs are migrated to a single host when a host is placed in maintenance mode
• BZ - 1412687 - Awkward attempted login error
• BZ - 1413150 - [RFE] Add warning to change CL to the match the installed engine version
• BZ - 1416153 - Virtual and Actual size on preallocated disk mismatch after snapshot deletion
• BZ - 1416340 - Change name of check box in Edit Virtual Disks window from Pass Discard to Enable Discard
• BZ - 1417518 - [HE] high availability compromised due to duplicate spm id
• BZ - 1418002 - [BUG] RHV cisco_ucs power management restart displays misleading message.
• BZ - 1418145 - [RFE] VDSM Hook for use of local storage of host
• BZ - 1419544 - forms don't contain '?' with link to help
• BZ - 1421548 - Failed host installs not handled in a user friendly way.
• BZ - 1427987 - [downstream clone - 4.1.1] Provide a configuration to enable that user actions should succeed regardless of 'filter' parameter
• BZ - 1429251 - [Docs][RFE] Change all references to 'virtual machine disk' to 'virtual disk'
• BZ - 1434582 - Multiple Preview and Commit on previous snapshot results in vm without disk.

CVEs

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References

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