RHEA-2018:0895 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

An update for virt-who is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

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 7.5 Release 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 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 7 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power 9 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM System z (Structure A) 7 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 1211435 - it should show error msg when giving an wrong env and owner which are not exist in Satellite server
• BZ - 1389729 - virt-who incorrectly reports 'name' instead of 'hostname' for RHEV hosts
• BZ - 1401867 - Can't show "rhsm.connection INFO" in rhsm.log when running virt-who by "service virt-who restart"
• BZ - 1408556 - [RFE] Add where host-to-guests mapping is pointing to in the rhsm.log
• BZ - 1415079 - Start virt-who will show "ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10" when rhsm_port is null
• BZ - 1436617 - [RFE] Virt-who can check configuration for validity
• BZ - 1452436 - No any Host-to-guest mapping info display to rhsm log when there isn't vdsm host on rhevm.
• BZ - 1457101 - Virt-who can't be started when only one of hypervisors' owner/env option is missing.
• BZ - 1458184 - Virt-who can't be started when username option is none/null under /etc/sysconfig/virt-who.
• BZ - 1458674 - "KeyError: 'guestIds'" occurs after trigger guest when virt-who run against stage candlepin 2.0
• BZ - 1461417 - when running virt-who by CLI, it will not check the parameters consistency
• BZ - 1463005 - Setting hypervisor_id to hostname or hwuuid, can't show all the hypervisors mapping info
• BZ - 1466015 - [RFE] Add warning that we will remove backend CLI configuration options in a future release
• BZ - 1485865 - /etc/virt-who.conf gets overwritten by an update of the virt-who package
• BZ - 1502442 - rpm -qi shows "https://fedorahosted.org/virt-who/" which no longer exists.
• BZ - 1503271 - Problem with virt-who using Unicode characters in a hypervisor's account password?
• BZ - 1503700 - Virt-who polls job status too quickly
• BZ - 1509595 - Failed to run virt-who for default Local Libvirt with "KeyError: 'owner not in env/cmdline'"
• BZ - 1509596 - Failed to run virt-who for Remote Libvirt mode with libvirtError - "Connection refused"
• BZ - 1509597 - Failed to run virt-who for VDSM mode
• BZ - 1509606 - Only one WARNING is enough about that backend CLI configuration options for hypervisor are deprecated and will be removed in the next release
• BZ - 1510310 - When disable the owner and env options in /etc/sysconfig/virt-who, host-to-guest info still can be sent to Satellite6.2
• BZ - 1510760 - Virt-who process should exit when no suitable backend configuration can be found
• BZ - 1511308 - No remind info in the log when set filter_host_parents or exclude_host_parents in xen/hyperv mode
• BZ - 1512778 - When configure ESX mode with username disabled and other valid configurations, virt-who will wait one interval time to send the valid one(s).
• BZ - 1523548 - If configured "log_dir=" or "log_file=" option, all the virtwho log message should be printed to the new file.

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.5_release_notes/index.html