RHEA-2019:1566 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

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

Description

The ovirt-engine package provides the manager for virtualization environments. This manager enables admins to define hosts and networks, as well as to add storage, create VMs and manage user permissions.

Changes to the ovirt-engine component:

• In some scenarios, the PCI address of a hotplugged SR-IOV vNIC was overwritten by an empty value, and as a result, the NIC name in the virtual machine was changed following a reboot. In this release, the vNIC PCI address is stored in the database and the NIC name persists following a virtual machine reboot. (BZ#1717434)
• TBA (BZ#1717765)
• A new configuration variable 'EventPurgeTimeoutInHours' has been added to set the number of hours an event can stay in the queue before being cleaned up. The variable can be modified using engine-config. The initial default value is 3 hours. (BZ#1689702)
• TBA (BZ#1690328)
• Updating the Data Center level while the virtual machine was suspended, resulted in the virtual machine not resuming activity following the update.

In this release, the suspended virtual machine must be resumed before the Data Center level update.
Otherwise, the operation fails. (BZ#1710740)

• A new generic Linux x86 operating system selection named ‘Other Linux (kernel 4.x)’ has been added to the drop down list of operating systems available when creating a new virtual machine in Red Hat Virtualization. (BZ#1341161)

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

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_virtualization/4.3/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 Manager 4.3 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1341161 - [RFE] Add "Other Linux (kernel 4.x)" to OS types
• BZ - 1689702 - GC overhead limit exceeded due to org.ovirt.vdsm.jsonrpc.client.events.SubscriptionHolder
• BZ - 1690328 - "Check for upgrade" not showing the update for redhat-virtualization-host-image
• BZ - 1695018 - [downstream clone - 4.3.4] Concurrent LSMs of the same disk can be issued via the REST-API
• BZ - 1702597 - [downstream clone - 4.3.4] When a live storage migration fails, the auto generated snapshot does not get removed
• BZ - 1709303 - [downstream clone - 4.3.4] Failure in creating snapshots during "Live Storage Migration" can result in a nonexistent snapshot
• BZ - 1710428 - [rebase] rhv-4.3.4
• BZ - 1710740 - [downstream clone - 4.3.5] Do not change DC level if there are VMs running/paused with older CL.
• BZ - 1717434 - [downstream clone - 4.3.4] PCI address of NICs are not stored in the database after a hotplug of passthrough NIC resulting in change of network device name in VM after a reboot
• BZ - 1717765 - [downstream clone - 4.3.4] [UI] warn users about different "Vdsm Name" when creating network with a fancy char or long name

CVEs

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References

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