Issued:
2018-02-01
Updated:
2018-02-01

RHBA-2018:0263 - redhat-virtualization-host bug fix, and enhancement update for RHV 4.1.9

Synopsis

redhat-virtualization-host bug fix, and enhancement update for RHV 4.1.9

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory None

Topic

Updated redhat-virtualization-host packages are now available.

Description

The ovirt-node-ng packages provide the Red Hat Virtualization Host. These packages include redhat-release-virtualization-host, ovirt-node, and rhev-hypervisor. Red Hat Virtualization Hosts (RHVH) are installed using a special build of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with only the packages required to host virtual machines. RHVH features a Cockpit user interface for monitoring the host's resources and performing administrative tasks.

Changes to the imgbased component:

  • Previously, Red Hat Virtualization Host (RHVH) copied the kernel and initrd from a subdirectory into /boot to mitigate limitations in some platform utilities, however, these files were not cleaned up after RHVH layers were removed. As a result, after a large number of updates, /boot could fill up, leaving the system in an unbootable state.

In this release, RHVH cleans extraneous boot files after layer are removed, which prevents /boot from reaching full capacity. (BZ#1533931)

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, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/2974891

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Virtualization4x86_64
Red Hat Virtualization Host4x86_64

Updated Packages

  • imgbased-0.9.54-0.1.el7ev.src.rpm
  • imgbased-0.9.54-0.1.el7ev.noarch.rpm
  • redhat-virtualization-host-4.1-20180126.0.el7_4.src.rpm
  • redhat-virtualization-host-image-update-placeholder-4.1-9.0.el7.noarch.rpm
  • redhat-virtualization-host-image-update-4.1-20180126.0.el7_4.noarch.rpm
  • redhat-release-virtualization-host-4.1-9.0.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • redhat-release-virtualization-host-4.1-9.0.el7.src.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information