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oVirt 4.3.3 Release Notes

The oVirt Project is pleased to announce the availability of the 4.3.3 release as of April 16, 2019.

oVirt is a free open-source distributed virtualization solution, designed to manage your entire enterprise infrastructure. oVirt uses the trusted KVM hypervisor and is built upon several other community projects, including libvirt, Gluster, PatternFly, and Ansible.

This release is available now for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6, CentOS Linux 7.6 (or similar).

If you’d like to try oVirt as quickly as possible, follow the instructions on the Download page.

For complete installation, administration, and usage instructions, see the oVirt Documentation.

For a general overview of oVirt, read the About oVirt page.

To learn about features introduced before 4.3.3, see the release notes for previous versions.

EPEL

Don’t enable all of EPEL on oVirt machines.

The ovirt-release package enables the EPEL repositories and includes several specific packages that are required from there. It also enables and uses the CentOS SIG repos, for other packages.

If you want to use other packages from EPEL, you should make sure to use includepkgs and add only those you need avoiding to override packages from other repos.

oVirt 4.3.3 Release Notes

Known Issues

oVirt Node and oVirt Engine Appliance are not available for Fedora 28 due to a bug in Lorax which has not yet been fixed in Fedora 28 (https://github.com/weldr/lorax/pull/612).

What’s New in 4.3.3?

Release Note

VDSM

BZ 1403674 [IPv6] - allow and enable display network with only ipv6 boot protocol
This release allows Red Hat Virtualization Manager to set a display network and open a console to a virtual machine over an IPv6 only network.

Enhancements

VDSM

BZ 1631587 [RFE] Improve vdsm client to add correlation_id
In this release, the Correlation-Id can be passed to the vdsm-client by using the ‘–flow-id’ argument with the vdsm-client tool.

oVirt Engine

BZ 1664490 VM’s time and TZ changes to GMT Standard Time after moving VM to another cluster.
This release enhancement preserves a virtual machine’s time zone setting of a virtual machine when moving the virtual machine from one cluster to a different cluster.

oVirt Host Dependencies

BZ 1693279 Require v2v-conversion-host-wrapper on ovirt-host
v2v-conversion-host-wrapper is now installed by default on hypervisor hosts

Bug Fixes

oVirt Cockpit Plugin

BZ 1622550 cockpit-wizard doesn’t show a proper error message when no available valid interfaces are present on the host
BZ 1693257 Setup wizard: Deployment can be started even if values are missing or incorrect

oVirt Ansible hosted-engine setup role

BZ 1694034 Hosted engine deploy failed with RHVH STIG security profile
BZ 1660595 Hosted Engine Deploy fails with SSO authentication errors
BZ 1691173 During HE deploy, rhvm-appliance installs even if ova file is presented

oVirt Engine

BZ 1686537 Migration of VM with ‘Pass-Through host CPU’ results with VM’s Pause state and exception on the following attempt to run.
BZ 1312909 Live disk migration fails noting “Failed to VmReplicateDiskFinishVDS”

Other

oVirt Engine UI Extensions

BZ 1670701 Could not fetch data needed for VM migrate operation
BZ 1687645 [RFE] on cluster upgrade, warn the user if the cluster scheduling policy is ‘cluster_maintenance’

oVirt Log Collector

BZ 1680555 use plugin ovirt_node for RHV-H hosts

oVirt ISO Uploader

BZ 1676713 ovirt-iso-uploader is very slow

VDSM

BZ 1676893 [RFE] Recognize Windows Server 2019 when using qemu-ga
Windows 2019 guests running only QEMU Guest Agent were incorrectly reported as Windows 2016. Such guests are now correctly identified in UI.
BZ 1403183 Cloned VMs created from template with “Raw” format are having “Thin Provision” Allocation Policy
This release ensures that virtual machines with file-based storage created from a template where the Resource Allocation > Storage Allocation > Clone > Format setting is set to Raw results in virtual machines having an Allocation Policy set to “Preallocated.”
BZ 1696968 Activating a Pre 4.1(V3) ANY(ISCSI,NFS,gluster,fcp) storage domain failes - VDSM formatconverter.py”, line 432, in _getConverter return self._convTable[(sourceFormat, targetFormat)] KeyError: (‘3’, ‘5’)
BZ 1687832 Memory ballooning VM Stats remain unchanged upon host’s memory allocation for when guest OS is RHEL8.
Memory statistic for guests running only QEMU Guest Agent were not properly reported which caused ballooning to fail and memory consumption was not available in UI. This is now fixed
BZ 1665689 sos plugin is running lvm commands without locking, risking VG metadata corruption
BZ 1683967 Attaching network with dhcpv4 ends up as out-of-sync becasue of a IPv6 property
BZ 1687032 Bad error handling when writing storage domain metadata may corrupt metadata
BZ 1571285 RAW-Preallocated file-based disk convert to raw-sparse after cold migrating it to another storage domain

oVirt Cockpit Plugin

BZ 1686259 Creation of multiple bricks,one of them being arbiter, on the same disk without dedupe & compression, results in failure
BZ 1690756 Insufficient space when creating thick LVs on top of VDO volume in certain way
BZ 1577039 The DNS server plus button is still clicked when it displays disabled from cockpit using Chrome
BZ 1683318 Incorrect value set for poolmetadatasize
BZ 1690160 Hosted-engine-setup fails deploying over an NFS share with a visible IPv6 address

oVirt Hosted Engine Setup

BZ 1686445 hosted-engine deploy (restore-from-file) fails if certificates are not up to date in backup file.
hosted-engine deploy (restore-from-file) was failing if certificates in backup file are not up to date or expiring.
Optionally renew them at restore time to be able to complete the process.
BZ 1692460 Let the user specify the host address also deploying from CLI
BZ 1690160 Hosted-engine-setup fails deploying over an NFS share with a visible IPv6 address

oVirt Ansible hosted-engine setup role

BZ 1696229 ovirt-ansible-hosted-engine-setup is not clearing a leftover local maintenance mode from a previous deployment on the same host

oVirt Engine

BZ 1690159 NPE in LibvirtVmXmlBuilder
BZ 1696174 Cloned VMs created from template with “Raw” format and “sparse” type on NFS are having “Preallocated” allocation policy
BZ 1672859 Cannot correctly upgrade an hosted engine env from 4.2 to 4.3 if the specific CPU type disappeared in 4.3
BZ 1613833 [RFE] - Use SHA256 for engine-backup
BZ 1668720 [RHV][REST api] Cluster href had changed in RHV-4.3 - It fails for some RHV-4.3 environments the CFME refresh.
This release ensures the process to provision of a virtual machine from a template completes correctly.
BZ 1663626 [RFE] block simultaneously running cluster upgrades
BZ 1644159 Set Preallocated disk to default option in HC environments
BZ 1690268 [UI] Uncaught exception occurred on Edit host
BZ 1403183 Cloned VMs created from template with “Raw” format are having “Thin Provision” Allocation Policy
This release ensures that virtual machines with file-based storage created from a template where the Resource Allocation > Storage Allocation > Clone > Format setting is set to Raw results in virtual machines having an Allocation Policy set to “Preallocated.”
BZ 1679109 Inappropriate user warnings reported when trying to add more bricks to the existing gluster volume
BZ 1676822 Cannot change Empty network profile of a running VM(default MTU)
BZ 1600788 Engine allows deleting HE volumes.
This release provides a check to evaluate self-hosted engine volumes prior to deleting the self-hosted engine volumes.
BZ 1698948 Error during UI action displays a dialog that the request to the server failed with error code 500
BZ 1586126 After upgrade to RHV hosts can no longer be set into maintenance mode.
This release ensures that hosts can be set to maintenance mode after upgrading Red Hat Virtualization from 4.1 to 4.2.3.
BZ 1692332 virt-v2v: Import from VMware and Xen failed with NPE.
BZ 1694740 Hosted Engine disks content types are showing unlocalized in the disks tab
BZ 1693191 Snapshot creation might fail due to a transaction timeout if takes too long to process the reply from vdsm
BZ 1555116 Merge retry validation fails with NPE after previous commit/destroyImage timeout
BZ 1552540 Webadmin- misleading error appears trying to extend a disk with MaxBlockDiskSize (8192G) with a value of 1 or more
BZ 1687645 [RFE] on cluster upgrade, warn the user if the cluster scheduling policy is ‘cluster_maintenance’
BZ 1692134 [Webadmin] - New virtual disk - Enable incremental backup checkbox is possible although it is not supported
BZ 1690833 host is not upgraded when already in maintenance mode
BZ 1571285 RAW-Preallocated file-based disk convert to raw-sparse after cold migrating it to another storage domain
BZ 1685818 IPv6 gateway removal from old default route role network alert is shown also for only IPv4 bootproto network
BZ 1685110 Error inserting event into audit_log when VM template name is bigger than 40 characters

oVirt Ansible cluster upgrade role

BZ 1689949 instead of “Hosts [] will be updated in cluster xy” should be “Hosts [] are marked to be updated in cluster xy”

imgbased

BZ 1693710 katello.facts gets invalid hostname while updating RHV hypervisor
BZ 1674265 Can’t use AMD EPYC IBPD SSBD on 4.3 upgrade without clearing libvirt cache

oVirt Engine Metrics

BZ 1693560 Initial validations fail on Set fluentd_base_packages_available fact
BZ 1693569 Missing variable when trying to install the metrics store machine
BZ 1693296 Unable to Add new Hosts to the Engine
BZ 1677246 ovirt-host-deploy-ansible fails on isolated (offline) nodes
BZ 1692702 In d/s if user did not set qcow_url then the Centos image instead of RHEL guest image
BZ 1677996 Encrypt passwords for Metrics installation
BZ 1691363 Curator failes in metrics store installation
BZ 1697521 When installing metrics-store the playbook fails on generate vars.yaml task
BZ 1690388 Missing IP attribute when creating metrics installer machine
BZ 1687492 Metrics installation fails on not provided nic name

oVirt Engine SDK 4 Python

BZ 1441741 [Docs][REST][Python][Ruby][Java] v4 API - Document the proper way to retrieve IP-addresses of a VM
BZ 1679918 Use print() function in both Python 2 and Python 3

No Doc Update

oVirt Engine

BZ 1684140 Import OVA failed to parse the OVF - Error loading ovf, message Content is not allowed in prolog
BZ 1697232 Extend length of value columns in vdc_options table
BZ 1684554 Host activation task gets stuck after many retries

Contributors

65 people contributed to this release:

Ahmad Khiet
Ales Musil
Alexander Wels
Barak Korren
Benny Zlotnik
Bohdan Iakymets
Carlos Rodrigues
Dana Elfassy
Daniel Erez
David Luong
Denis Chaplygin
Douglas Schilling Landgraf
Edward Haas
Eitan Raviv
Emil Natan
Eyal Shenitzky
Fabien Dupont
Fred Rolland
Greg Sheremeta
Ido Rosenzwig
Jiri Macku
Joey
Juan Hernandez
Kaustav Majumder
Ken Schmidt
Kobi Hakimi
Lars Seipel
MLotton
Marcin Sobczyk
Marek Aufart
Marek Libra
Martin Perina
Michal Skrivanek
Michele Zuccala
Milan Zamazal
Nir Soffer
Ondra Machacek
Ori_Liel
Pavel Bar
Ravi Nori
Ryan Barry
Sandro Bonazzola
Scott Dickerson
Scott J Dickerson
Sharon Gratch
Shirly Radco
Shmuel Melamud
Simone Tiraboschi
Steven Rosenberg
Tal Nisan
Tomasz Baranski
Tomáš Golembiovský
Vojtech Juranek
Vojtech Szocs
Yadnyawalkya Tale
Yedidyah Bar David
Yuval Turgeman
bond95
fdupont-redhat
godas
imjoey
irosenzw
iterjpnic
jenkins CI
parthdhanjal