- Issued:
- 2017-03-14
- Updated:
- 2017-03-14
RHEA-2017:0500 - Product Enhancement Advisory
Synopsis
rhevm-guest-agent bug fix and enhancement update
Type/Severity
Product Enhancement Advisory
Red Hat Insights patch analysis
Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.
Topic
Updated rhevm-guest-agent packages are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
Description
The rhevm-guest-agent packages allow the Red Hat Enterprise 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 shutdown or reboot, on guest virtual machines.
The rhevm-guest-agent packages have been upgraded to upstream version 1.0.11, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. (BZ#1224653)
- When installing rhevm-guest-agent, the rules for the udev device manager were previously not reloaded before attempting to trigger the newly installed udev rules. Consequently, the guest agent failed to start. With this update, the installation of the packages reloads udev rules before attempting to trigger them. As a result, the guest agent now starts properly. (BZ#1278163)
Users of rhevm-guest-agent are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs and add these enhancements.
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:
Affected Products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7 x86_64
Fixes
- BZ - 1404623 - [el7] HA vms do not start after successful power-management.
CVEs
(none)
References
(none)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7
SRPM | |
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rhevm-guest-agent-1.0.12-4.el7ev.src.rpm | SHA-256: 38c2b4d0f8d7ace2a2e7d34d7268d7ab0d987b04bdac3580ee8a5d12e75df220 |
x86_64 | |
rhevm-guest-agent-common-1.0.12-4.el7ev.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 6d2f851b94921da2af61a5461de783c474cf20c9f5e8029bea2ac2b4288c4f49 |
rhevm-guest-agent-debuginfo-1.0.12-4.el7ev.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 2c6f912b09ba24585f6dfa9507dc979c9161ffa9a839255ea77320b2e5edafe5 |
rhevm-guest-agent-gdm-plugin-1.0.12-4.el7ev.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 2b81598be5ee8f486768b0f5f7e74a3963bfeed421f55268587df8e263656d62 |
rhevm-guest-agent-pam-module-1.0.12-4.el7ev.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: eee46e90b614cdcb53ce723e62acd489dc83e33d2aab5d80ae755af980c20148 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7
SRPM | |
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rhevm-guest-agent-1.0.12-4.el7ev.src.rpm | SHA-256: 38c2b4d0f8d7ace2a2e7d34d7268d7ab0d987b04bdac3580ee8a5d12e75df220 |
x86_64 | |
rhevm-guest-agent-common-1.0.12-4.el7ev.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 6d2f851b94921da2af61a5461de783c474cf20c9f5e8029bea2ac2b4288c4f49 |
rhevm-guest-agent-debuginfo-1.0.12-4.el7ev.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 2c6f912b09ba24585f6dfa9507dc979c9161ffa9a839255ea77320b2e5edafe5 |
rhevm-guest-agent-gdm-plugin-1.0.12-4.el7ev.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 2b81598be5ee8f486768b0f5f7e74a3963bfeed421f55268587df8e263656d62 |
rhevm-guest-agent-pam-module-1.0.12-4.el7ev.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: eee46e90b614cdcb53ce723e62acd489dc83e33d2aab5d80ae755af980c20148 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7
SRPM | |
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rhevm-guest-agent-1.0.12-4.el7ev.src.rpm | SHA-256: 38c2b4d0f8d7ace2a2e7d34d7268d7ab0d987b04bdac3580ee8a5d12e75df220 |
x86_64 | |
rhevm-guest-agent-common-1.0.12-4.el7ev.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 6d2f851b94921da2af61a5461de783c474cf20c9f5e8029bea2ac2b4288c4f49 |
rhevm-guest-agent-debuginfo-1.0.12-4.el7ev.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 2c6f912b09ba24585f6dfa9507dc979c9161ffa9a839255ea77320b2e5edafe5 |
rhevm-guest-agent-gdm-plugin-1.0.12-4.el7ev.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 2b81598be5ee8f486768b0f5f7e74a3963bfeed421f55268587df8e263656d62 |
rhevm-guest-agent-pam-module-1.0.12-4.el7ev.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: eee46e90b614cdcb53ce723e62acd489dc83e33d2aab5d80ae755af980c20148 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7
SRPM | |
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rhevm-guest-agent-1.0.12-4.el7ev.src.rpm | SHA-256: 38c2b4d0f8d7ace2a2e7d34d7268d7ab0d987b04bdac3580ee8a5d12e75df220 |
x86_64 | |
rhevm-guest-agent-common-1.0.12-4.el7ev.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 6d2f851b94921da2af61a5461de783c474cf20c9f5e8029bea2ac2b4288c4f49 |
rhevm-guest-agent-debuginfo-1.0.12-4.el7ev.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 2c6f912b09ba24585f6dfa9507dc979c9161ffa9a839255ea77320b2e5edafe5 |
rhevm-guest-agent-gdm-plugin-1.0.12-4.el7ev.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 2b81598be5ee8f486768b0f5f7e74a3963bfeed421f55268587df8e263656d62 |
rhevm-guest-agent-pam-module-1.0.12-4.el7ev.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: eee46e90b614cdcb53ce723e62acd489dc83e33d2aab5d80ae755af980c20148 |
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