RHEA-2017:3428 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

Updated vdsm packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are now available.

Description

VDSM is a management module that serves as a Red Hat Virtualization Manager agent on Red Hat Virtualization Host or Red Hat Enterprise Linux hosts.

Changes to the vdsm component:

• This update ensures that during a cold merge the system will identify and handle leaked clusters reported by the QCOW2 image, to ensure that the cold merge succeeds. (BZ#1506503)
• This update ensures that TLSv12 support is enabled by default and no manual configuration is required. (BZ#1513886)

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 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Virtualization for IBM Power LE 4 for RHEL 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1506157 - [BLOCKED][downstream clone - 4.1.8] During a Live Merge, VDSM still saw a block job, even though libvirt's block job had completed.
• BZ - 1506503 - [downstream clone - 4.1.8] Cold merge will fail if the base qcow2 image reports leaked cluster
• BZ - 1509614 - [downstream clone - 4.1.8] "No such drive" error on live merge of one disk causes merge of other disk to fail on engine.
• BZ - 1513886 - [downstream clone - 4.1.8] [RFE] Enable TLSv12 support by default

CVEs

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References

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