RHEA-2017:1013 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

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

Description

The ovirt-guest-agent allows the Red Hat 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 ovirt-guest-agent component:

• File conflicts, as a result of package renaming, caused direct upgrades of debuginfo from version 1.0.12 and earlier to a later version to fail due to duplicate files in the same location.

The workaround for this problem is to manually uninstall the previous version of the debuginfo package before an installation or upgrade of the newer ovirt-guest-agent packages, such as:

# yum remove rhevm-guest-agent-debuginfo

This workaround does not introduce any limitations and is simple to execute for users of the debuginfo packages. (BZ#1442254)

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 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 Virtualization 4 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Virtualization for IBM Power LE 4 for RHEL 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1382057 - Rebase to upstream ovirt-guest-agent 1.0.13 for RHEV 4.1 (RHEL6)
• BZ - 1442254 - update of ovirt-guest-agent-debuginfo fails due to confict with installed rhevm-guest-agent-debuginfo (el6 only)

CVEs

(none)

References

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