RHEA-2018:1489 - 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.

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/4.2/html/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 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Virtualization for IBM Power LE 4 for RHEL 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1130527 - Prevent guest vs. hypervisor VG/LV naming collisions (lvm filter?)
• BZ - 1193083 - [scale] Network: RHEV fails to apply high number of networks on a new hypervisor: Timeout during xml-rpc call
• BZ - 1205739 - [RFE][DR] - Allow recovering an imported domain without an UP DC
• BZ - 1335176 - VMs do not auto-resume after short storage outage
• BZ - 1373930 - [RFE][HC] Expose mount options under getStorageDomainInfo verb (for DR and hosted engine)
• BZ - 1387085 - Hosted-Engine iSCSI target logged in twice on activated Host (to be solved via new HE installation flow)
• BZ - 1400446 - RHV-H starts very slowly when too many LUNs are connected to the host (lvm filter?)
• BZ - 1404990 - udev rewrites permissions set by libvirt on block devices that are closed
• BZ - 1412455 - [Bug] Gluster brick created with RHEV manager is overallocated
• BZ - 1421746 - [RFE] add nested virtualization hook vdsm-hook-nestedvt
• BZ - 1422664 - Fix vdsm-tool register
• BZ - 1422670 - During a Live Merge, VDSM still saw a block job, even though libvirt's block job had completed.
• BZ - 1424853 - RHEV-H host activation fails after reboot on setup with large number of lvs
• BZ - 1425596 - [RFE] Provide a way to correlate each 'run and protect' thread to its task
• BZ - 1425910 - [RFE] JSON RPC broker should pass correlation id to VDSM
• BZ - 1427184 - [downstream clone] LiveMerge fails with libvirtError: Block copy still active. Disk not ready for pivot
• BZ - 1428147 - "libvirt chain" message is not displayed in the vdsm logs by default during a live merge
• BZ - 1430799 - Create script to restore original network configuration of removed vdsm host
• BZ - 1431188 - Host unavailable after upgrade from RHEL-H 7.3 (RHEV 3.6) upgrade to RHEL-H 7.3 (RHV 4.0) with a busy RHVM
• BZ - 1432039 - lvchange --refresh generates unneeded load on lvm
• BZ - 1437375 - getAllVmIoTunePolicies exceptions in VDSM
• BZ - 1438506 - [downstream clone - 4.2.0] while deleting vms created from a template, vdsm command fails with error VDSM command failed: Could not remove all image's volumes
• BZ - 1442266 - VM paused with Improbable extension request messages during active layer block commit operation.
• BZ - 1443347 - Adding rhvh-4.1-20170417.0 to engine failed with bond(active+backup) configured by cockpit
• BZ - 1446492 - Storage domain in 4.1 RHV will go offline if LVM metadata was restored manually
• BZ - 1447300 - enable libguestfs tools on ppc64le
• BZ - 1449869 - [RFE] Decrease the required amount of space needed in /var/tmp for v2v import
• BZ - 1449968 - Guest LVs created on raw volumes are auto activated on the hypervisor with FC storage (lvm filter?)
• BZ - 1450132 - Add additional logging of LVM commands in VDSM
• BZ - 1454425 - No meaningful vdsm logging for 'wipe-after-delete' in RHV 4.1
• BZ - 1470435 - Handle copy of compressed QCOWs image (like rhel guest images) from one to block storage domain.
• BZ - 1474566 - [sos plugin] lvm commands need syntax change
• BZ - 1476155 - [SR-IOV] - Vdsm doesn't report VFs with zero MAC addresses 00:00:00:00:00:00 - bnx2x driver
• BZ - 1477536 - [Rebase] bug for vdsm for RHV 4.2
• BZ - 1477717 - Sanlock init failed with unhelpful error message "Sanlock exception"
• BZ - 1486543 - Migration leads to VM running on 2 Hosts
• BZ - 1488542 - "No such drive" error on live merge of one disk causes merge of other disk to fail on engine.
• BZ - 1494921 - NPE when get LLDP info from host interface via REST
• BZ - 1501012 - [RFE] Show thread dump for blocked VDSM workers in the log to show details what exactly is blocked
• BZ - 1502352 - Cleanup thread for live merge executed continuously if a block job failed in libvirtd side
• BZ - 1502488 - Cold merge will fail if the base qcow2 image reports leaked cluster
• BZ - 1511962 - [RFE] Enable TLSv12 support by default
• BZ - 1512547 - HostMonitor stops collecting data when TooManyTasks occurs
• BZ - 1516831 - Host fails with Heartbeat periodically
• BZ - 1518676 - Entire vdsm process hang during when formatting xlease volume on NFS storage domain
• BZ - 1523292 - sos plugin is generating Exception during plugin-setup
• BZ - 1523314 - Error 'internal error: End of file from qemu monitor" is received after shutting down the VM
• BZ - 1526192 - Failed to start supervdsm on PPC host
• BZ - 1526197 - Hotplug failed because libvirtError: internal error: unable to execute QEMU command '__com.redhat_drive_add': Device 'drive-virtio-disk7' could not be initialized
• BZ - 1528367 - stderr is not logged in the vdsm if the lvremove fails for some reason
• BZ - 1529201 - Guest's network will disappear after importing guest from kvm/vmware/xen at rhv4.2 GUI
• BZ - 1532133 - Preallocated volume convert to sparse volume after live storage migration to file based storage domain
• BZ - 1532483 - Improve osinfo kdump_status() logging level.
• BZ - 1538840 - Disk move between storage domain's result's in source image being removed.
• BZ - 1543103 - Call vdsm 'after_vm_pause' hooks when the VM has been paused because an I/O Error
• BZ - 1547358 - Unable to detach the disk while running commvault backup proxy.
• BZ - 1556288 - Rich guest information not collected by sosreport vdsm plugin
• BZ - 1557330 - [SR-IOV] - Can't start VM with SR-IOV vNIC (depends on libvirt bug 1558655 )
• BZ - 1561010 - vdsm: perform only minimal changes to the domain XML received from Engine

CVEs

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References

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