Issued:
2019-05-08
Updated:
2019-05-08

RHEA-2019:1099 - ovirt-guest-agent bug fix and enhancement update

Synopsis

ovirt-guest-agent bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Product Enhancement Advisory None

Topic

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

Description

[Rebase] Rebase ovirt-guest-agent for RHV 4.3 The guest agent allows the Red Hat Virtualization Manager to receive internal guest events and retrieve information such as the IP address and list of installed applications from the guest. Additionally the guest agent allows the Manager to execute specific commands, such as shut down or reboot, on guest virtual machines.

The Red Hat Virtualization Agent did not report the correct OS version for a Windows2019 guest. In this release, a Windows 2019 guest is reported correctly. (BZ#1656346)

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

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Virtualization4x86_64
Red Hat Virtualization for IBM Power LE4ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian7ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop7x86_64

Updated Packages

  • ovirt-guest-agent-pam-module-1.0.16-1.el7ev.x86_64.rpm
  • ovirt-guest-agent-debuginfo-1.0.16-1.el7ev.x86_64.rpm
  • ovirt-guest-agent-gdm-plugin-1.0.16-1.el7ev.noarch.rpm
  • ovirt-guest-agent-common-1.0.16-1.el7ev.noarch.rpm
  • ovirt-guest-agent-1.0.16-1.el7ev.src.rpm
  • ovirt-guest-agent-pam-module-1.0.16-1.el7ev.ppc64le.rpm
  • ovirt-guest-agent-debuginfo-1.0.16-1.el7ev.ppc64le.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information