Issued:
2013-04-23
Updated:
2013-04-23

RHBA-2013:0745 - ovirt-node bug fix and enhancement update

Synopsis

ovirt-node bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated ovirt-node package that fixes various bugs, and adds a number of enhancements, is now available.

Description

The ovirt-node package provides the utilities and recipes used to create and configure the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor ISO image.

Note: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor is only available for the Intel 64 and AMD64 architectures with virtualization extensions.

This update fixes the following bugs:

  • The sanlock user was missing in some upgrade circumstances, so the "sanlock lockspace add" command could fail when creating new NFS storage pools on the hypervisor. Now, the sanlock user is checked on upgrade, and is created if it does not exist. The lockspace errors no longer occur. (BZ#916183)

  • When the hypervisor was booted in EFI mode, the expected behavior was for a boot message to replace its previous line. Instead, the messages were appended to each line. This update shortens the GRUB EFI menu to under 54 characters, to prevent boot messages from overlapping. (BZ#920270)

  • Previously, installing the hypervisor with the vlan parameter set to vlan= resulted in a kernel panic. Setting the vlan boot parameter to the format of vlan=: can be validated within dracut, so the hypervisor installation succeeds. (BZ#927291)

  • A previous fix which populated an empty /etc/hosts file with default entries also overwrote an /etc/hosts file populated with custom entries. Now, when the hypervisor detects that the /etc/hosts file contains custom entries, the file is persisted upon reboot. (BZ#950136)

  • The "nomodeset" kernel parameter, which was previously missing, has now been added to the list of Basic Video options for EFI boot. (BZ#951687)

  • Previously .cfg was used as the grub configuration file suffix instead of .conf. Calls to copy a non-existent .conf file into a compatible EFI boot directory caused the hypervisor to be unbootable. Now the correct .conf suffix is used, so an installed hypervisor can be successfully booted in EFI mode. (BZ#951688)

  • Previously on the network interfaces section of the hypervisor TUI, the boot protocol displayed as "none" when the IP configuration was static. Now, the boot protocol field displays as "static" when a static IP configuration is present. (BZ#950141)

  • Previously, attempting to use the mem_overcommit kernel argument to set the swap ratio caused installation to fail. Now, specifying mem_overcommit calculates the swap size for installation. If the swap size is specified in the storage_vol parameter and the mem_overcommit argument is also provided, the hypervisor is installed using the swap size defined in the storage_vol parameter. (BZ#950191)

This ovirt-node package is included in the rhev-hypervisor6 package associated with advisory RHBA-2013:0746

This content is not included.https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2013-0746.html

Users of the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which corrects these issues and adds these enhancements.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Virtualization6x86_64

Updated Packages

  • ovirt-node-2.5.0-17.el6_4.3.src.rpm
  • ovirt-node-recipe-2.5.0-17.el6_4.3.noarch.rpm
  • ovirt-node-tools-2.5.0-17.el6_4.3.noarch.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

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Additional information