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oVirt 4.0.3 Release Notes

The oVirt Project is pleased to announce the availability of oVirt 4.0.3 Release as of August 29th, 2016.

oVirt is an open source alternative to VMware™ vSphere™, and provides an awesome KVM management interface for multi-node virtualization. This release is available now for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2, CentOS Linux 7.2 (or similar).

To find out more about features which were added in previous oVirt releases, check out the previous versions release notes.

An updated documentation has been provided by our downstream Red Hat Virtualization

  1. oVirt 4.0.3 Release Notes
    1. Install / Upgrade from previous versions
      1. Fedora / CentOS / RHEL
      2. oVirt Hosted Engine
    2. Known issues
    3. What’s New in 4.0.3?
      1. Enhancements
        1. ovirt-distribution
      2. Deprecated Functionality
        1. Documentation
      3. Unclassified
        1. oVirt Hosted Engine HA
          1. Team: Integration
        2. oVirt Engine Dashboard
          1. Team: UX
        3. oVirt Engine
          1. Team: Infra
          2. Team: Integration
    4. Bug fixes
      1. oVirt Hosted Engine HA
        1. Team: SLA
      2. OTOPI
        1. Team: Integration
      3. oVirt Engine
        1. Team: Integration
        2. Team: SLA
        3. Team: Virt
      4. oVirt Hosted Engine Setup
        1. Team: Integration

Install / Upgrade from previous versions

Users upgrading from 3.6 should be aware of following 4.0 changes around authentication and certificates handling:

  1. Single Sign-On using OAUTH2 protocol has been implemented in engine to allow SSO between webadmin, userportal and RESTAPI. More information can be found at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1092744

  2. Due to SSO it’s required to access engine only using the same FQDN which was specified during engine-setup invocation. If your engine FQDN is not accessible from all engine clients, you will not be able to login. Please use ovirt-engine-rename tool to fix your FQDN, more information can be found at /documentation/how-to/networking/changing-engine-hostname/ . If you try to access engine using IP or DNS alias, an error will be thrown. Please consult following bugs targeted to oVirt 4.0.4 which should fix this limitation: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1325746 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1362196

  3. If you have used Kerberos SSO to access engine, please consult https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1342192 how to update your Apache configuration after upgrade to 4.0

  4. If you are using HTTPS certificate signed by custom certificate authority, please take a look at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1336838 for steps which need to be done after migration to 4.0. Also please consult https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1313379 how to setup this custom CA for use with virt-viewer clients.

Fedora / CentOS / RHEL

In order to install it on a clean system, you need to install

# yum install http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/yum-repo/ovirt-release40.rpm

and then follow documentation from our downstream Red Hat Virtualization

If you’re upgrading from a previous release on Enterprise Linux 7 you just need to execute:

  # yum install http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/yum-repo/ovirt-release40.rpm
  # yum update "ovirt-engine-setup*"
  # engine-setup

Upgrade on Fedora 22 and Enterprise Linux 6 is not supported and you should follow our Migration Guide in order to migrate to Enterprise Linux 7 or Fedora 23.

oVirt Hosted Engine

If you’re going to install oVirt as Hosted Engine on a clean system please follow Red Hat Virtualization Self Hosted Engine Guide

If you’re upgrading an existing Hosted Engine setup, please follow Red Hat Virtualization Upgrade Guide

Known issues

  • BZ 1297835 Host install fails on Fedora 23 due to lack of dep on python2-dnf
    On Fedora >= 23 dnf package manager with python 3 is used by default while ovirt-host-deploy is executed by ovirt-engine using python2. This cause Host install to fail on Fedora >= 23 due to lack of python2-dnf in the default environment. As workaround please install manually python2-dnf on the host before trying to add it to the engine.

What’s New in 4.0.3?

Enhancements

ovirt-distribution

  • BZ 1368446 Rebase qemu-kvm-ev to 2.3.0-31.el7_2.21
    qemu-kvm-ev has been rebased to 2.3.0-31.el7_2.21 including security fixes for CVE-2016-5126 and CVE-2016-5403.
    A build for ppc64le has been provided as well.

Deprecated Functionality

Documentation

  • BZ 1255230 Additional self-hosted engine hosts can only be added via the Administration Portal, and can no longer be added by running ‘hosted-engine –deploy’ on the host.

Unclassified

oVirt Hosted Engine HA

Team: Integration
  • BZ 1367732 If ovirt-ha-agent fails to read local answers.conf during upgrade, it writes None to shared fhanswers.conf

oVirt Engine Dashboard

Team: UX
  • BZ 1347238 Tooltip on sparkline changes proportions based on time and wraps text to new line
  • BZ 1368767 Dashboard: wrong alignment in top utilized resources

oVirt Engine

Team: Infra
  • BZ 1367513 Kerberos negotiation for RESTAPI should be enabled by default to maintain SDK v3 compatibility
    ENGINE_RESTAPI_NEGO config variable enables or disables the restapi negotiate authentication. If all restapi clients are RESTAPI/SDK v4 then this can be set to false. It is required to be set to true only for compatibility with RESTAPI/SDK v3.6 clients. By default the variable is set to true to maintain compatibility with v3.6 clients.
Team: Integration
  • BZ 1369747 Add an option ‘–mode=verify’ to ‘engine-backup’ that also checks and fails if “found legacy kerberos/ldap directory integration”

Bug fixes

oVirt Hosted Engine HA

Team: SLA

  • BZ 1359059 The agent got stuck if the broker takes more that 30 seconds to reach the smtp server

OTOPI

Team: Integration

  • BZ 1350869 [TEXT] [otopi] typo - Failed to install Host $HOST. Invalid data recieved during bootstrap.

oVirt Engine

Team: Integration

  • BZ 1365451 ovirt-imageio-proxy service failed to start after engine upgrade
  • BZ 1365744 engine-setup should require ovirt-imageio-proxy-setup
  • BZ 1363816 password DWH_DB_PASSWORD not hidden

Team: SLA

  • BZ 1367025 [Upgrade] Cluster compatibility upgrade 3.6-> 4.0 failed on a specific system

Team: Virt

  • BZ 1356027 During cluster level upgrade - reconfig VMs to old cluster level compatibility level until they restart

oVirt Hosted Engine Setup

Team: Integration

  • BZ 1366879 –upgrade-appliance - Failed to execute stage ‘Environment customization’: File contains no section headers. file: <???>, line: 1 u’None’