Authors:

Lev Veyde

oVirt 4.4.0 Release Notes

The oVirt Project is pleased to announce the availability of the 4.4.0 release as of May 20, 2020.

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 8.1 and CentOS Linux 8.1 (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 4.4.0, see the release notes for previous versions.

oVirt 4.4.0 Release Notes
1. What’s New in 4.4.0?

What’s New in 4.4.0?

Release Note

oVirt Release Package

BZ 1745302 ovirt-guest-tools has been obsoleted by virtio-win guest tools

oVirt 4.4 replaces the ovirt-guest-tools a with a new WiX-based installer, included in Virtio-Win. You can download the ISO file containing the Windows guest drivers, agents and installers from https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/latest-virtio/

Enhancements

oVirt Setup Lib

BZ 1546838 [RFE] Refuse to deploy on localhost.localdomain

The current release displays a new warning when you use ‘localhost’ as an FQDN: “[WARNING] Using the name ‘localhost’ is not recommended, and may cause problems later on.”

oVirt Host Dependencies

BZ 1725775 Replace screen requirement with tmux

Before this update, screen was installed on hosts. With this update, screen is removed, and tmux is installed on hosts instead.

screen was deprecated in RHEL 7.6, and is not included with RHEL 8.

oVirt Ansible hosted-engine setup role

BZ 1816619 [RFE] Enable update of appliance from channels after VM is deployed

Feature: Change the default value of Hosted Engine deployment to update engine VM packages.

Add the ability to run engine-setup offline deployment in order to avoid updates.

Reason: Get an updated engine VM.

Result: Packages will be updated.

BZ 1602816 [RFE] hosted-engine deployment playbook should reject bridging over a teaming device with a clear error

Feature: Filter Team devices in Hosted-Engine deployment

Reason: Teaming is not supported on RHV

Result: Rejecting the deployment with a clear error message in case that only Team devices are available

oVirt Hosted Engine Setup

BZ 1641694 [RFE] hosted-engine –vm-start-paused should clean up any existing HE-VM.

Feature: After starting HE VM with qemu paused, there is an option to start HE VM using hosted-engine --vm-start.

Reason: Start HE VM with qemu paused, and then start it as running VM

Result: option --vm-start can be used after --vm-start-paused

VDSM

BZ 1739557 RFE: add support for native TLS encryption on migration TCP transport

With this update, you can enable encryption for live migration of virtual machines between hosts in the same cluster, providing more protection to data transferred between hosts.

Enable or disable encryption in the Administration Portal, in the Edit Cluster dialog box, under Migration Policy > Additional Properties. Encryption is disabled by default.

BZ 1680398 QEMU-GA capabilities are reported as none for a few minutes after VM start. Therefore, VM details are not reported by engine

Mechanism for polling QEMU-GA in VDSM has been enhanced to query newly started VMs more often in order to get the stats as soon as the agent becomes available in guest.
BZ 1780943 [RFE] Add timeout and abort command to async live snapshot

Feature:

Now that in 4.4 we are using asynchronous job to run live snapshot. Timeout to abort this job will be possible. The engine will consume the value from engine-config and provide it to the job.

Reason:

The asynchronous live snapshot job can be infinite, locking the specific VM. The user should have the option to provide a timeout, releasing that VM.

Result:

A default value is set in engine-config and can be changed. In case the job will reach the timeout it will be aborted and the VM’s lock will be released.

BZ 1749284 Change the Snapshot operation to be asynchronous

Before this update, the live snapshot operation was synchronized, such that if VDSM required more than 180 seconds to create a snapshot, the operation failed, preventing snapshots of some virtual machines, such as those with large memory loads, or slow storage.

With this update, the live snapshot operation is asynchronous, so the operation runs until it ends successfully, regardless of how long it takes.

BZ 1692709 [RFE] Investigate viability of automatically setting up boot partition for FIPS hosts

With this update, each host’s boot partition is explicitly stated in the kernel boot parameters. For example: boot=/dev/sda1 or boot=UUID=<id>
BZ 1179273 [RFE] vdsm: Utilize system-wide crypto-policies

The VDSM’s ‘ssl_protocol’, ‘ssl_excludes’ and ‘ssl_ciphers’ config options have been removed.

To find our more about crypto policies, please visit:

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/consistent-security-crypto-policies-red-hat-enterprise-linux-8

If you need to fine-tune your crypto settings you should do it by changing or creating your own crypto policy. As an example, if you need your hosts to communicate with some legacy systems that still use insecure TLSv1 or TLSv1.1, you can change your crypto policy to ‘LEGACY’ with:

update-crypto-policies –set LEGACY

oVirt Engine

BZ 1306586 change Windows drivers and sysprep delivery method to a CDROM

The floppy device has been replaced by a CDROM device for sysprep installation of Compatibility Versions 4.4 and later.
BZ 1821930 Enable only TLSv1.2+ protocol for SPICE on EL7 hosts

For RHEL 7 based hosts we configure SPICE encryption during host deployment:
Only TLSv1.2 and newer protocols are enabled
Available ciphers are limited as described in BZ1563271

For RHEL 8 based hosts we don’t configure SPICE encryption at all, we completely reply on defined RHEL crypto policies (similar to VDSM BZ1179273)

BZ 1679110 [RFE] change Admin Portal toast notifications location

Feature:

Changing the location of the toast notifications area from upper right corner to lower right corner.

Reason:

The default top right location covers all the action buttons and is quite intrusive.

Result:

Toast notifications are growing bottom-up from bottom right corner up to 400px from top, while buttons of “Dismiss all” and “Do not disturb” are located below the notifications area (please see attachments for more details).

BZ 1455465 Virt: blank template should be of ‘server’ type and not ‘desktop’ type.

In this release, the default “optimized for” value optimization type for bundled templates is now set to “Server”.
BZ 1780943 [RFE] Add timeout and abort command to async live snapshot

Feature:

Now that in 4.4 we are using asynchronous job to run live snapshot. Timeout to abort this job will be possible. The engine will consume the value from engine-config and provide it to the job.

Reason:

The asynchronous live snapshot job can be infinite, locking the specific VM. The user should have the option to provide a timeout, releasing that VM.

Result:

A default value is set in engine-config and can be changed. In case the job will reach the timeout it will be aborted and the VM’s lock will be released.

BZ 1807400 Ensure o-direct options are enabled on volume used as storage domain
BZ 1512838 [RFE][UI] - Add indication that a template is a sealed template

Feature:

It is now possible to see if the template has been sealed in the template list table. It is also possible to change that value in the Edit template dialog.

Reason:

During the template creation, it is possible to seal the template automatically (for Linux). However, it was not possible to view in the UI if the template has been sealed or not. The other OS had to be sealed manually, but it was not possible to mark the template as sealed manually.

Result:

The seal status is now visible and editable via UI.

BZ 1798403 Windows drivers will auto-attach on installation of windows

Feature:

Attach windows guest tools ISO when installing windows from CD-ROM.

Reason:

Since the floppy device is removed, the user still need the windows guest tools to complete the windows installation.

Result:

The user can run once a VM that set to windows operation system, attach the windows install CD-ROM and select auto-attaching the windows guest tools. The windows guest tools will be attached to the VM for this run.

BZ 1749284 Change the Snapshot operation to be asynchronous

Before this update, the live snapshot operation was synchronized, such that if VDSM required more than 180 seconds to create a snapshot, the operation failed, preventing snapshots of some virtual machines, such as those with large memory loads, or slow storage.

With this update, the live snapshot operation is asynchronous, so the operation runs until it ends successfully, regardless of how long it takes.

BZ 1692709 [RFE] Investigate viability of automatically setting up boot partition for FIPS hosts

With this update, each host’s boot partition is explicitly stated in the kernel boot parameters. For example: boot=/dev/sda1 or boot=UUID=<id>
BZ 1726907 [RFE] Add RHCOS to the list of operating systems

With this update, you can select Red Hat CoreOS (RHCOS) as the operating system for a virtual machine. When you do so, the initialization type is set to ignition. RHCOS uses ignition to initialize the virtual machine, differentiating it from RHEL.
BZ 1549486 [RFE] update landing and login pages to to be compatible with Patternfly 4
BZ 1739557 RFE: add support for native TLS encryption on migration TCP transport

With this update, you can enable encryption for live migration of virtual machines between hosts in the same cluster, providing more protection to data transferred between hosts.

Enable or disable encryption in the Administration Portal, in the Edit Cluster dialog box, under Migration Policy > Additional Properties. Encryption is disabled by default.

BZ 1767319 [RFE] forbid updating mac pool that contains ranges overlapping with any mac range in the system

In this release, modifying a MAC address pool or modifying the range of a MAC address pool that has any overlap with existing MAC address pool ranges, is strictly forbidden.
BZ 1547937 [RFE] Live Storage Migration progress bar.

This release adds a progress bar for the disk synchronization stage of Live Storage Migration.
BZ 1593800 [RFE] forbid new mac pools with overlapping ranges

When creating a new MAC address pool its ranges must not overlap with each other or with any ranges in existing MAC address pools.
BZ 1696245 [RFE] Allow full customization while cloning a VM

Feature:

When cloning VM, user is now able to customize all the fields available in the Edit VM dialog (including discs and network)

Reason:

When cloning VM, it was not possible to clone the disks into a different storage domain as the original one.

Result:

The newly cloned VM is now fully customizable.

BZ 1732738 [RFE] Update engine to use OpenJDK 11 - both build and runtime

Modernizing the software stack of ovirt-engine for build and runtime using java-11-openjdk.

Java 11 openjdk is the new LTS version from Red Hat.

BZ 1700021 [RFE] engine-setup should warn and prompt if ca.pem is missing but other generated pki files exist

Previously, if ca.pem was not present, engine-setup automatically regenerated all PKI files, requiring you to reinstall or re-enroll certificates for all hosts.

Now, if ca.pem is not present but other PKI files are, engine-setup prompts you to restore ca.pem from backup without regenerating all PKI files. If a backup is present and you select this option, then you no longer need to reinstall or re-enroll certificates for all hosts.

BZ 1450351 [RFE] Allow specifying a shutdown reason on the .shutdown() call

With this update, you can set the reason for shutting down or powering off a virtual machine when using a REST API request to execute the shutdown or power-off.
BZ 1572155 [RFE] provide VM status and uptime in VM general tab

The current release adds the VM’s current state and uptime to the Compute > Virtual Machine: General tab.
BZ 1325468 [RFE] Autostart of VMs that are down (with Engine assistance - Engine has to be up)
1. After a high-availability virtual machine (HA VM) crashes, the Manager tries to restart it indefinitely. At first, with a short delay between restarts. After a specified amount of failed retries, the delay is longer. The current release adds three new configuration options:
RetryToRunAutoStartVmShortIntervalInSeconds - Is the short delay. (Default: 30 seconds)
RetryToRunAutoStartVmLongIntervalInSeconds - Is the long delay. (Default: 30 minutes)
NumOfTriesToRunFailedAutoStartVmInShortIntervals - Is the number of failed restarts with short delays. (Default: 10 retries)

The Manager starts crashed HA VMs in order of priority, delaying lower-priority VMs until higher-priority VMs are ‘Up.’ The current release adds a new configuration option, ‘MaxTimeAutoStartBlockedOnPriority,’ which sets the maximum time the Manager waits before starting a lower-priority VM. (Default: 10 minutes)

BZ 1080097 [RFE] Allow editing disks details in the Disks tab

In this release, it is now possible to edit the properties of a Floating Disk in the Storage > Disks tab of Administration Portal. For example, the user can edit the Description, Alias, and Size of the disk.
BZ 1652565 [RFE] Unable to edit floating disk

In this release, it is now possible to edit the properties of a Floating Disk in the Storage > Disks tab of Administration Portal. For example, the user can edit the Description, Alias, and Size of the disk.
BZ 854932 RESTAPI: missing update impl at /api/disks/xxx

The REST API in the current release adds the following updatable disk properties for floating disks:
For Image disks: provisioned_size, alias, description, wipe_after_delete, shareable, backup, and disk_profile.
For LUN disks: alias, description and shareable.
For Cinder and Managed Block disks: provisioned_size, alias, and description.

See http://ovirt.github.io/ovirt-engine-api-model/4.4/#services/disk/methods/update

BZ 1574443 [RFE] Allow host to be forcefully flipped to maintenance using power management restart

Feature:

Allows to put host straight into maintenance mode when doing power management restart (restapi, webadmin).

Reason:

It is problematic to flip the host to the maintenance state if it is flipping between connecting and activating state. It may get to the non-operation state for short period of time, but one has to monitor the host and click the button as soon as it is in the non-operational state otherwise the host can flip to connecting again.

Result:

The host, regardless of its initial state before restart, will be put into maintenance mode, skipping connecting & activating phases.

BZ 1731395 [RFE] Introduce a “Secure” variant of CPUs following the CPU-related vulnerability mitigations

Previously, with every security update a new CPU type was created in the vdc_options table under the key ServerCPUList in the database for all affected architectures. For example, the Intel Skylake Client Family included the following CPU types:

Intel Skylake Client Family

Intel Skylake Client IBRS Family

Intel Skylake Client IBRS SSBD Family

Intel Skylake Client IBRS SSBD MDS Family

With this update, only two CPU Types are now supported for any CPU microarchitecture that has security updates, keeping the CPU list manageable. For example:

Intel Skylake Client Family

Secure Intel Skylake Client Family

The default CPU type will not change. The Secure CPU type will contain the latest updates.

BZ 1733932 [RFE] add an option to remove unregistered entities from attached storage domain

With this update, you can remove an unregistered entity, such as a virtual machine, a template, or a disk, without importing it into the environment.
BZ 1358501 [RFE] multihost network change - notify when done

Feature: Network operations that span multiple hosts will have a start and end event in the events tab and engine.log, and a popup notification for the end of the operation in the web-admin if triggered from the web-admin.

Reason: Network operations that span multiple hosts may take a long time and the user has no indication of when they have finished.

Result:

BZ 1740644 [nmstate] Add config option for Host deployment with nmstate

The current release adds a configuration option, VdsmUseNmstate, which you can use to enable nmstate on every new host with cluster compatibility level >= 4.4.
BZ 1427717 [RFE] Create and/or select affinity group upon VM creation.

The current release adds the ability for you to select affinity groups while creating or editing a virtual machine (VM) or host. Previously, you could only add a VM or host by editing an affinity group.
BZ 1482465 [RFE] Add sorting for Cluster’s columns

With this update, when viewing clusters, you can sort by the Cluster CPU Type and Compatibility Version columns.
BZ 1600059 [RFE] Add by default a storage lease to HA VMs

Feature: When HA is selected for a New VM we now set the Lease Storage Domain to a bootable Storage Domain automatically if the user did not already choose one.

Reason: To protect new HA VMs with leases when it has a bootable Storage Domain.

Result: Now a bootable Storage Domain is set as the lease Storage Domain for new HA VMs.

BZ 1651406 [RFE] Allow Maintenance of Host with Enforcing VM Affinity Rules (hard affinity)

The current release enables you to migrate a group of virtual machines (VMs) that are in positive enforcing affinity with each other.
You can use the new check-box in the Migrate VM dialog to migrate this type of affinity group.
You can use the following REST API to migrate this type of affinity group: http://ovirt.github.io/ovirt-engine-api-model/4.4/#services/vm/methods/migrate/parameters/migrate_vms_in_affinity_closure.
Putting a host into maintenance also migrates this type of affinity group.
BZ 1475774 RHV-M requesting four GetDeviceListVDSCommand when editing storage domain

Feature:

Adding a message while loading a large number of LUNs.

Reason:

While creating/managing an iSCSI storage domain, there’s no indication that the operation may take some long time.

Result:

Added a message to the spinner dialog:

Loading…

A large number of LUNs may slow down the operation.

BZ 1688796 [RFE] Make it possible to enable Kerberos/GSSAPI debug on AAA

With this update a new configuration variable, AAA_JAAS_ENABLE_DEBUG, has been added to enable Kerberos/GSSAPI debug on AAA. The default value is false.

To enable debugging, create a new configuration file named /etc/ovirt-engine/engine.conf.d/99-kerberos-debug.conf with the following content:

AAA_JAAS_ENABLE_DEBUG=true

ovirt-engine-extension-aaa-ldap

BZ 1734724 [RFE] Update aaa-ldap to use OpenJDK 11 - both build and runtime

We should update below RHV Administration Guide for 4.4 chapters:

16.3.3. Configuring an External LDAP Provider (Manual Method)

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_virtualization/4.3/html/administration_guide/sect-configuring_an_external_ldap_provider#Configuring_an_External_LDAP_Provider_ManualMethod

16.4. Configuring LDAP and Kerberos for Single Sign-on

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_virtualization/4.3/html/administration_guide/configuring_ldap_and_kerberos_for_single_sign-on

and replace below strings:

From “org.ovirt.engine-extensions.aaa” to “org.ovirt.engine.extension.aaa”
From “org.ovirt.engineextensions.aaa” to “org.ovirt.engine.extension.aaa”

Those replacement are only breaking changes contained in version 1.4.0 compared to 1.3.0, but for upgrades from 4.3 those changes will be performed automatically as a part of engine-setup. So we just need to fix documentation mentioning manual setup of new LDAP integration.

ovirt-engine-extension-aaa-misc

BZ 1734725 [RFE] Update aaa-misc to use OpenJDK 11 - both build and runtime

We should update below RHV Administration Guide for 4.4 chapters:

16.3.3. Configuring an External LDAP Provider (Manual Method)

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_virtualization/4.3/html/administration_guide/sect-configuring_an_external_ldap_provider#Configuring_an_External_LDAP_Provider_ManualMethod

16.4. Configuring LDAP and Kerberos for Single Sign-on

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_virtualization/4.3/html/administration_guide/configuring_ldap_and_kerberos_for_single_sign-on

and replace below strings:

From “org.ovirt.engine-extensions.aaa” to “org.ovirt.engine.extension.aaa”
From “org.ovirt.engineextensions.aaa” to “org.ovirt.engine.extension.aaa”

ovirt-engine-extension-logger-log4j

BZ 1734727 [RFE] Update logger-log4j to use OpenJDK 11 - both build and runtime

We should update below RHV Administration Guide for 4.4 chapters:

21.6. Enabling the oVirt Engine Extension Logger log4j

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_virtualization/4.3/html/administration_guide/enabling_the_ovirt_engine_extension_logger_log4j

and replace below strings:

From “org.ovirt.engine-extensions.logger” to “org.ovirt.engine.extension.logger”
From “org.ovirt.engineextensions.logger” to “org.ovirt.engine.extension.logger”

Those replacement are only breaking changes contained in version 1.1.0 compared to 1.0.3, but for upgrades from 4.3 those changes will be performed automatically as a part of engine-setup. So we just need to fix documentation mentioning manual setup of logger-log4j extension.

oVirt Engine Metrics

BZ 1523289 [RFE] Create a role that will list to the admin which hosts are not configured for metrics

Feature:

List hosts that are not configured for metrics.

Reason:

So that the user can check the reason the Collectd, Rsyslog/Fluentd services are not working as expected and fix it.

Result:

When running the manage services playbook the “/etc/ovirt-engine-metrics/hosts_not_configured_for_metrics” file is created and includes the list of hosts that the services are not running on.

Rebase: Bug Fixeses and Enhancementss

oVirt Engine WildFly

BZ 1766166 Rebase on Wildfly 18

oVirt Engine Appliance

BZ 1708579 Rebase ovirt-engine-appliance on Fedora 29
BZ 1672732 Replace ovirt-guest-agent with qemu-guest-agent

oVirt Node NG Image

BZ 1708582 Rebase oVirt Node on top of Fedora 30

Removed functionality

oVirt Host Dependencies

BZ 1698016 remove cockpit-machines-ovirt dependency

cockpit-machines-ovirt has been deprecated in Red Hat Virtualization version 4.3 (reference bug #1698014), and has been removed from the ovirt-host dependencies and from the RHV-H image.

VDSM

BZ 1703840 drop vdsm-hook-macspoof

The vdsm-hook-macspoof has been dropped from the VDSM code. If you still require the ifacemacspoof hook, you can find and fix the vnic profiles using a script similar to the one provided in the https://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/94613/ commit message.

oVirt Engine

BZ 1753889 [v3 REST API] Remove v3 API support

oVirt Engine RESTAPIv3 has been removed from the projects, users need to adapt their custom scripts to use RESTAPIv4
BZ 1795684 [RFE] Drop support for hystrix monitoring integration

Hystrix monitoring integration has been removed from ovirt-engine due to limited adoption and difficulty to maintain.
BZ 1638675 Drop OpenStack Neutron deployment

The current release removes OpenStack Neutron deployment,

including the automatic deployment of the neutron agents through the Network Provider tab in the New Host window and the AgentConfiguration in the REST-API.

Use the following components instead:

To deploy OpenStack hosts, use the OpenStack Platform Director/TripleO.
The Open vSwitch interface mappings are already managed automatically by VDSM in Clusters with switch type OVS.
To manage the deployment of ovirt-provider-ovn-driver on a cluster, update the cluster’s “Default Network Provider” attribute.

oVirt Release Package

BZ 1753894 Retire ovirt-engine-sdk-java-3*

The oVirt Engine SDK 3 Java bindings are not shipped anymore with oVirt 4.4 release.
BZ 1753899 Retire ovirt-engine-cli
BZ 1753896 Retire ovirt-engine-sdk-python-3*

oVirt Python SDKv3 has been removed from the project, users needs to upgrade their scripts to use Python SDKv4

Known Issue

oVirt Engine

BZ 1809116 Block RHEL8 hosts in OVS cluster

Cause: OVS switch type for nmstate managed hosts is currently known to be not working

Consequence: OVS clusters cannot contain RHEL 8 hosts

Workaround (if any): Do not upgrade hosts in clusters with OVS switch type to RHEL 8.

Bug Fixes

Safelease

BZ 1696313 Drop unneeded dependencies from safelease

oVirt Cockpit Plugin

BZ 1808152 [ RHHI-V 1.8 ] Failed to create VDO

oVirt Ansible hosted-engine setup role

BZ 1756244 On dual stack env hosted-engine deploy chooses IPv6 just due to a link-local IPv6 address
BZ 1807060 hosted-engine-setup deployment fails with ovirt-engine-4.4-el8 appliance - nic eth0 hardcoded.

oVirt Hosted Engine Setup

BZ 1756244 On dual stack env hosted-engine deploy chooses IPv6 just due to a link-local IPv6 address
BZ 1664479 Third VM fails to get migrated when host is placed into maintenance mode
BZ 1686575 hosted-engine deploy (restore-from-file) fails if any non-management logical network is marked as required in backup file.

OTOPI

BZ 1746700 ssh plugin fails if authorized_keys has non-ascii utf-8 text
BZ 1751324 get_otopi_python always prefers Python3 even when site-packages are Python2 on CentOS 7

oVirt Hosted Engine HA

BZ 1664479 Third VM fails to get migrated when host is placed into maintenance mode

VDSM

BZ 1680368 Failed to create VM from template in CreateVolumeContainerCommand when stopping VDSM service in a single host environment
BZ 1798175 Regression: KVM Importing fails due to missing readinto function on the StreamAdapter
BZ 1788783 after_migration is not sent to the guest after migration
BZ 1660071 Regression in Migration of VM that starts in pause mode: took 11 hours
BZ 1770889 virt-v2v from VMware or Xen to RHEL 8.1 host: although import succeeds VM remains in “locked” status.
BZ 1598266 [scale] VMs unresponsive due to delayed getVolumeSize
BZ 1749630 Reporting incorrect high memory usage, preventing VMs from migrating, high slab dentry
BZ 1746699 Can’t import guest from export domain to data domain on rhv4.3 due to error “Invalid parameter: ‘DiskType=1’“
BZ 1722854 Remove nwfilter configuration from the vdsmd service start
BZ 1711902 ovirt-engine-4.1.11.2 fails to add disks with vdsm-4.30 hosts and 4.1 compatibility level: InvalidParameterException: Invalid parameter: ‘DiskType=2’
BZ 1713724 When a storage domain is updated to V5 during a DC upgrade, if there are volumes with metadata that has been reset then the upgrade fails
BZ 1569593 ERROR failed to retrieve Hosted Engine HA score ‘[Errno 2] No such file or directory’ Is the Hosted Engine setup finished?
BZ 1685034 “after_get_caps” ovirt-provider-ovn-driver hook query floods /var/log/messages when ovs-vswitchd is disabled

oVirt Engine

BZ 1816777 Missing key ‘path’ when connecting to browser console in VM portal
BZ 1733843 Export to OVA fails if VM is running on the Host doing the export
BZ 1785364 After engine restore, ovn networks are not restored and new OVN networks are not working properly on 4.4
BZ 1810893 mountOptions is ignored for “import storage domain” from GUI
BZ 1808788 VM configured with 16 CPUs fails on start with unsupported configuration error .
BZ 1806276 [HE] ovirt-provider-ovn is non-functional on 4.3.9 Hosted-Engine
BZ 1795886 Validation for disk incremental backup property should be done only for incremental backup operation
BZ 1793481 Able to set ‘enable incremental backup’ for raw disks
BZ 1751215 Unable to change Graphical Console of HE VM.
BZ 1801205 HA configuration for VMs in a pool must be disabled - causes confusing behavior
BZ 1678262 Q35: BIOS type changed to “Default” when creating new VM from template with Q35 chipset.
BZ 1707225 [cinderlib] Cinderlib DB is missing a backup and restore option
BZ 1798425 Regression: KVM Importing fails due to an old version
BZ 1777954 VM Templates greater then 101 quantity are not listed/reported in RHV-M Webadmin UI.
BZ 1437559 [RFE] Explicitly assign all CPUs to NUMA nodes
BZ 1678007 When importing a VM override its cluster level to match the cluster it is imported to
BZ 1731590 Cannot preview snapshot, it fails and VM remains locked.
BZ 1583328 NPE while running VM with passthrough network vnic type
BZ 1781095 Hide partial engine-cleanup option
BZ 1750212 MERGE_STATUS fails with ‘Invalid UUID string: mapper’ when Direct LUN that already exists is hot-plugged
BZ 1754363 [Scale] Engine generates excessive amount of dns configuration related sql queries
BZ 1743296 When having many VMs with the same name - The same VM is selected each time
BZ 1731212 RHV 4.4 landing page does not show login or allow scrolling.
BZ 1590911 wrong template details shown when names are matching
BZ 1769339 webadmin - Extend floating disk size on image, ISCSI, thin-prov’ disks does not work
BZ 1770237 Cannot assign a vNIC profile for VM instance profile.
BZ 1656621 Importing VM OVA always enables ‘Cloud-Init/Sysprep’
BZ 1763084 Fix invalid host certificates by filling-in subject alternate name during host installation, host upgrade or certificate enrolment
BZ 1717390 [REST] VM interface hot-unplug right after VM boot up fails over missing vnic alias name
BZ 1745384 [IPv6 Static] Engine should allow updating network’s static ipv6gateway
BZ 1547038 Upgrade from 4.3 to 4.4 will fail if there are versioned templates in database
BZ 1729511 engine-setup fails to upgrade to 4.3 with Unicode characters in CA subject
BZ 1718141 Cannot retrieve Host NIC VF configuration via REST API
BZ 1715393 [Q35] Disabling and re-enabling SPICE USB creates a USB2.0 controller instead of xhci
BZ 1659574 Highly Available (HA) VMs with a VM lease failed to start after a 4.1 to 4.3 upgrade.
BZ 1664479 Third VM fails to get migrated when host is placed into maintenance mode
BZ 1703112 PCI address of NICs are not stored in the database after a hotplug of passthrough NIC resulting in change of network device name in VM after a reboot
BZ 1658101 [RESTAPI] Adding ISO disables serial console
BZ 1693813 Do not change DC level if there are VMs running/paused with older CL.

Other

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BZ 1809367 Host update fails with environment block too small
BZ 1803017 The discard mount option is not set properly
BZ 1777886 [RFE] Support minimal storage layout for RHVH
BZ 1770683 [RHVH-4.4.0] Upgrade RHVH from RHVH-4.4-20190926.3 to rhvh-4.4.0.8-0.20191107.0 failed
BZ 1766579 imgbased build is not disabling anymore repositories
BZ 1759938 unittest: TypeError: unicode argument expected, got ‘str’
BZ 1760809 src/imgbased/bootloader.py fails unit testing with nosetests-3
BZ 1760812 imgbased/src/imgbased/local.py fails unit testing with nosetests-3
BZ 1760217 RHVH4.4 installation fails when security profile is selected
BZ 1724102 [RFE] Warn if SELinux is disabled when upgrading RHV-H

oVirt Cockpit Plugin

BZ 1825748 Unable to enter the host details in the cockpit with single node deployment
BZ 1822121 Filter /dev/mapper/x devices, when provided with blacklist_gluster_devices option enabled
BZ 1818566 Cockpit UI logout due to 15 min timeout
BZ 1817306 Blacklisting is not done for LVM cache fast devices
BZ 1816105 Make either the public network for all hosts or use same FQDN for both networks mandatory
BZ 1816090 Direct usage of IPv6 addresses shouldn’t be allowed
BZ 1816051 Falling back to DNS,TCP doesn’t help for liveliness check of the host
BZ 1754748 Enabling LV cache along with VDO volumes fails during Deployment
BZ 1603591 [RFE] - Hosted-engine deployment on NFS should have option to specify exact NFS version v4.0.
BZ 1814125 Enable blacklisting devices by default and update default data disks for RAID 6 as 10
BZ 1814554 Refrain from showing up the read-only fields in HC cockpit deployment wizard
BZ 1807815 [RFE]Provide option to control blacklist or whitelist multipath devices from cockpit
BZ 1762800 Consolidate host and additional hosts tab
BZ 1789277 Unable to deploy gluster using the hyperconverged wizard
BZ 1715430 Storage Domains should be created irrespective of automatic host addition
BZ 1688794 Need an option to get IP version type used for FQDNs from user
BZ 1688245 Gluster IPV6 storage domain requires additional mount options
BZ 1688271 Additional hosts with IPV6 addresses doesn’t qualify for valid addresses
BZ 1733416 Cockpit UI dropdown menu changes needed for single node
BZ 1758150 Expanded disk size field should be non-editable.
BZ 1752951 Cleanup should confirm before starting up the cleanup process
BZ 1690880 Brick size is incorrect after user modifies the volume from arbiter to pure replica.
BZ 1756709 Add ids to elements in cockpit-ovirt
BZ 1700742 python packaging changes needed due to deprecation of /usr/bin/python

oVirt Host Dependencies

BZ 1836645 Package ovirt-imageio-client is not included in latest 4.4 build - rhv-release-4.4.0-36
BZ 1782754 Disable goferd on RHV Host Images
BZ 1741792 Add clevis RPMs to RHV-H image / repo

oVirt Ansible hosted-engine setup role

BZ 1827135 failed to deploy hosted-engine 4.4 from 4.3 backup file due to versionlock
BZ 1787267 Misleading fail message: deprecation of ‘ovirt_host_facts’ to be renamed to ‘ovirt_host_info’
BZ 1603591 [RFE] - Hosted-engine deployment on NFS should have option to specify exact NFS version v4.0.
BZ 1782799 “rhel7” hard-coded in virt-install command
BZ 1806526 hosted-engine-setup deployment fails : Software Collections are no longer used on EL8
BZ 1459229 Interface matching regular expression ignores interfaces with a ‘-‘ in the name
BZ 1770030 [4.4.0-5] after deploy of HE the defined fqdn on the host changed to localhost.localdomain

oVirt Provider OVN

BZ 1701121 /etc/ovirt-provider-ovn/ovirt-provider-ovn.conf is a config file, although it’s not meant to be

oVirt Hosted Engine Setup

BZ 1603591 [RFE] - Hosted-engine deployment on NFS should have option to specify exact NFS version v4.0.
BZ 1726290 hosted-engine command line help is incomplete and confusing

OTOPI

BZ 1750093 dnf plugin silently ignores updated packages with broken dependencies
BZ 1688659 Drop requirement on sonatype-oss-parent from otopi

MOM

BZ 1626003 Port mom to Python3

oVirt Hosted Engine HA

BZ 1830730 Add log messages for DNS query test
BZ 1768511 ovirt-ha-broker “sometimes” fails to load on RHEL8 due to a permission error on a systemd defined RuntimeDirectory
BZ 1757414 ovirt-hosted-engine-ha python3 unicode fails testing
BZ 1624790 Package hosted-engine-ha for python2/3

VDSM

BZ 1803484 [UI] - Add nmstate version under ‘Hosts’ > ‘General’ software information
BZ 1821309 Can’t change gateway of a static IPv4 address
BZ 1820283 Error creating storage domain via vdsm
BZ 1819098 Broken rollback for BlockVolume createVolumeMetadata
BZ 1818554 Libvirt service fails to start
BZ 1817001 [SR-IOV] [I40E] Hotunplug doesn’t release the VF on the host
BZ 1766193 [Scale] oVirt should support up to 200 networks per host
BZ 1812914 Support setting a static DNS to interface that has dynamic IP
BZ 1544370 vdsm does not deactivate all LVs if a LUN is removed from the Storage Domain
BZ 1553133 Creating many thin clones corrupts vg metadata
BZ 1790503 [nmstate] Support bridge_opts custom properties for nmstate usage
BZ 1673277 “Volume Option cluster.granular-entry-heal=enable could not be set” when using “Optimize for Virt store”
BZ 1779161 HP VM could not be started if TSC scaling is not supported by the host CPU.
BZ 1793867 Remove Stochastic Fairness Queueing for network QoS
BZ 1785061 vdsmd 4.4.0 throws an exception in asyncore.py while updating OVF data
BZ 1793550 SCSI Hostdev Passthrough: local host disk is passthrough to VM when using other than scsi_generic property.
BZ 1766595 Webadmin and RESTAPI - creating/managing/importing ISCSI storage domain not possible - error block device action: (), code = 600
BZ 1765018 [rhel8.1] VM fail to start if having vNIC profile with port mirroring enabled
BZ 1639360 Separate lvm activation from other lvm commands
BZ 1756944 RHVH-4.4.0 The NICs are turned off during installation, but all NICs were found to be open after installation
BZ 1771051 Missing imageio demon at RHEL8 host breaking upload/download/V2V
BZ 1765684 Log important state changes and time spent in slow critical operations
BZ 1759388 Chance of data corruption if SPM VDSM is restarted during LSM
BZ 1738861 can’t start VM that was cloned from snapshot when FIPS enabled
BZ 1755829 One of the ‘HSM.moveImage’ exception handlers refers to non-existing members on the exception instance
BZ 1750340 New libvirtd uses systemd socket activation by default, which is incompatible with –listen flag usage in /etc/sysconfig/libvirtd
BZ 1721599 Cannot create volume with initial size on preallocated qcow volume
BZ 1751881 Possible faulty storage task state transition on task abort
BZ 1753235 Align volume size to 4k block size in hsm module for file based storage
BZ 1738429 [SR-IOV] [rhel8.1] Can’t enable VFs on rhel8.1 host - driver=igb
BZ 1738423 [rhel8.1] vdsm override ovirtmgmt with static IPv4 instead of the origin dhcpv4 NIC during host deploy in RHV
BZ 1688052 Typo and exception due to non-iterable object on gluster fencing testing
BZ 1679122 Automatically set in engine the following flags for High Performance VMs types: invtsc cpu flag and also the tsc frequency flag for supporting migration
BZ 1723668 VDSM command Get Host Statistics failed: Internal JSON-RPC error: {‘reason’: ‘[Errno 19] vnet<x> is not present in the system’}
BZ 1709628 lshw can take more than 15 seconds to execute depending on the system
BZ 1700623 Moving disk results in wrong SIZE/CAP key in the volume metadata
BZ 1417545 Unable to set global volume options using ‘all’ as volume name

oVirt Engine

BZ 1758048 clone(as thin) VM from template or create snapshot fails with ‘Requested capacity 1073741824 < parent capacity 3221225472 (volume:1211)’
BZ 1831620 [UI] Wrong header name for bond’s slaves
BZ 1417545 Unable to set global volume options using ‘all’ as volume name
BZ 1803484 [UI] - Add nmstate version under ‘Hosts’ > ‘General’ software information
BZ 1793988 [REST API] copyhostnetwork operation failure detail message is not formatted with values
BZ 1679877 [ALL_LANG except zh_CN] Column names are truncated on network -> network -> clusters -> manage networks screen.
BZ 1820100 Webadmin - wrong warning message when attaching export domain to data center
BZ 1802223 “Storage consumption” - incorrect recalculate
BZ 1801710 ovirt-imageio service not available on engine host after clean reprovision meaning upload/download operations from UI do not work
BZ 1813305 Engine updating SLA policies of VMs continuously in an environment which is not having any QOS configured
BZ 1824472 Default cluster has wrong bios type
BZ 1823388 Ensure that meaningful messages are logged, when gluster volumes doesn not have o-direct enabled
BZ 1784049 Rhel6 guest with cluster default q35 chipset causes kernel panic
BZ 1770697 VM can’t start after was shut down with - XML error: Invalid PCI address 0000:03:01.0. slot must be <= 0
BZ 1755518 importing an image or a template from export domain results in a non indented fields yaml files
BZ 1786999 Multipath status changes are not displayed in Engine events
BZ 1784398 System permissions to user can not be added
BZ 1816519 Importing a registered template with already exists name shouldn’t be allowed
BZ 1768844 RHEL Advanced virtualization module streams support

As a part of adding new host we are now enabling advanced virtualization channel on the host to use latest supported libvirt and qemu packages
BZ 1797494 [RFE]Remove quartz dependency and use standard java scheduler
BZ 1807929 importing VM uses the old (original) name instead of the new one
BZ 1431535 [UI] - Add exclamation mark/tooltip warning ‘VM Name already exist in the Data Center’ on registering a VM from a DATA domain dialog and option to rename it
BZ 1743690 Commit and Undo buttons active when no snapshot selected
BZ 1712592 oVirt 4.3.5 RC3 - cannot attach disk as virtio-scsi during new VM wizzard
BZ 1801779 Disable Autoconf only option for rhel8 host and above
BZ 1646319 dashboard not working while storage domain has size less than 1GB
BZ 1812906 Upgrade via backup and restore from 4.3 to 4.4 is blocked

engine-backup in version 4.4 allows restoring also from backups taken by 4.3, to allow using that as a means to upgrade from 4.3 on EL7 to 4.4 on EL8 (which does not allow direct upgrade).
BZ 1783750 Block upgrade if there’s a risk of running out of space (say, any brick / volume is @ >90% full capacity)
BZ 1517696 [UI] - grids bottom scrollbar hides bottom row
BZ 1795232 Apply Patternfly 4 styles and layouts to error and non-webadmin pages
BZ 1721368 Support upgrade of HC cluster from engine UI
BZ 1565696 UI plugin API - action button callbacks invoked multiple times
BZ 1791826 SCSI passthrough: VM failed to start after changing custom property with hostdev attached.
BZ 1779161 HP VM could not be started if TSC scaling is not supported by the host CPU.
BZ 1793550 SCSI Hostdev Passthrough: local host disk is passthrough to VM when using other than scsi_generic property.
BZ 1680522 [ja_JP] Overlapping string on storage -> volumes ->snapshot -> new page.
BZ 1805142 Updating an OpenStack port creates invalid json
BZ 1782236 Windows Update (the drivers) enablement
BZ 1795246 WGT ISO on data domain is always attached to Win VMs
BZ 1779543 With Q35 BIOS the Cluster overview shows wrong Emulated Machine Type
BZ 1784767 webadmin - illegal char’ in extend size text box while editing disk not marked as illegal
BZ 1691301 [CodeChange] Remove (or disable) yum/dnf groups handling code
BZ 1777215 Add deprecation message to “Export to Export Domain” dialog
BZ 1796047 Bad payload on ignition when the custom script is empty
BZ 1795238 ovirt_hosted_engine_ha exception: failed to start monitor via ovirt-ha-broker
BZ 1714528 Missing IDs on cluster upgrade buttons
BZ 1779580 drop rhvm-doc package
BZ 1679880 [fr_FR] Misalignment on Storage > Volumes >Geo-replication > New window.
BZ 1768393 Auto attached WGT ISO doesn’t show in Change CD dialogue
BZ 1769306 A white space appears between upper masthead menu to vertical masthead menu
BZ 1752515 The Notification Drawer window title is overlapped by the “Alerts” title area and the close/widen buttons as well as the whole drawer area is shifted
BZ 1656329 Webadmin- providers - creating the same glance image provider with different name & same provider url & tenant is allowed
BZ 1789291 Missing ca.pem recreation question should be part of PKI section
BZ 1786450 webadmin - cluster tab under data center can’t be shown properly - can’t see any attached cluster to DC
BZ 1769463 [Scale] Slow performance for api/clusters when many networks devices are present
BZ 1635498 [UI] [Text] - Notification Drawer - On display all Alerts the text show ‘All events were displayed’
BZ 1666032 RFE Able to create direct LUN from already used LUN (by storage domain) without selecting ‘approve operation’ flag
BZ 1734409 Duplicate image id when importing VM from export domain while the original VM still exists in the environment
BZ 1768784 [rhv-4.4.0-4] webadmin - destroy storage domain is not possible via UI
BZ 1771474 webadmin -few windows have unnecessary blank space
BZ 1743562 Custom property of vNIC profile does not allow multiple security group ids
BZ 1776317 Cannot hotplug more than 2 vNICs per VM
BZ 1771471 webadmin - New virtual disk > Direct LUN window is a mess
BZ 1771545 webadmin - The window of “attach virtual disk” was cut
BZ 1733031 [RFE] Add warning when importing data domains to newer DC that may trigger SD format upgrade

Feature:

Reason:

Result:

BZ 1564509 Unable to grant user permissions to upload ISOs through the web interface
BZ 1768851 webadmin - block(ISCSI/FC) storage domain window is a mess - misaligned “Advance Parameters” makes it hard to choose other options
BZ 1768707 Cannot set or update iscsi portal group tag when editing storage connection via API
BZ 1701236 Hot plug disk resides on backup storage domain while VM is running is permitted
BZ 1753628 webadmin - Modify/Edit an existing DC compatibility level on a local storage domain is not possible
BZ 1728617 upgrade of host fails on timeout after 30 minutes

Default maximum timeout for an ansible-playbook executed from engine has been raised from 30 to 120 minutes. This timeout is defined using configuration option ANSIBLE_PLAYBOOK_EXEC_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT within /usr/share/ovirt-engine/services/ovirt-engine/ovirt-engine.conf. If administrators need to change that timeout they can create /etc/ovirt-engine/engine.conf.d/99-ansible-timeout.conf file with below content:

ANSIBLE_PLAYBOOK_EXEC_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT=NNN

where NNN is number of minutes the timeout should be.

BZ 1743543 extract_ova fails over nfs
BZ 1679122 Automatically set in engine the following flags for High Performance VMs types: invtsc cpu flag and also the tsc frequency flag for supporting migration
BZ 1680502 The cancel button is not working on storage > volumes > geo-replication > new screen.
BZ 1750905 Data Center -> Guide me -> Configure storage does not let user create iSCSI volumes
BZ 1758874 V5 format is missing storage domain (none)
BZ 1746390 Error while creating local storage: Internal Engine Error
BZ 1722519 Guest tools ISO in data domain not automatically attached to Windows VMs
BZ 1748736 [UI] Tooltips in the setup networks dialog are broken
BZ 1738861 can’t start VM that was cloned from snapshot when FIPS enabled
BZ 1678003 Collapse snapshot flag is available even if VM has no snapshots at all
BZ 1590866 SDK allows to create template in one DC with disk in another DC
BZ 1741102 host activation causes RHHI nodes to lose the quorum
BZ 1652064 Missing REST API endpoint to access affinity group hosts: …/affinitygroups/ID/hosts
BZ 1727025 NPE in DestroyImage endAction during live merge leaving a task in DB for hours causing operations depending on host clean tasks to fail as Deactivate host/StopSPM/deactivate SD
BZ 1742924 “Field ‘foo’ can not be updated when status is ‘Up’” in engine.log when listing ‘NEXT_RUN’ configuration snapshot VMs
BZ 1700338 [RFE] Alternate method to configure the email Event Notifier for a user in RHV through API (instead of RHV GUI)
BZ 1730611 Inconsistent UX labels - Use Host vs Host to Use
BZ 1727094 ISOs in Change CD dialog not sorted
BZ 1718790 Drop oVirt Node Legacy support in ovirt-engine
BZ 1739257 [UI] Don’t show ‘out-of-sync’ info tooltip for the out-of-sync column under main ‘Hosts’ tab if network in sync
BZ 1730264 VMs will fail to start if the vnic profile attached is having port mirroring enabled and have name greater than 15 characters
BZ 1690026 [RFE] - Creating an NFS storage domain the engine should let the user specify exact NFS version v4.0 and not just v4
BZ 1731049 exception while adding user or group to quota consumer
BZ 1651939 a new size of the direct LUN not updated in Admin Portal
BZ 1721449 ISOs in Run Once dialog grouped by domain
BZ 1721438 The list of ISOs not sorted in VM Import dialog
BZ 1700036 [RFE] Add RedFish API for host power management for RHEV

Support for RedFish power management agent has been added into RHV. To use that functionality administrators need to select redfish power management agent in Power Management tab in Edit Host dialog and fill-in additional details like login information and IP/FQDN of the agent
BZ 1714834 Cannot disable SCSI passthrough using API
BZ 1530249 Default quota must be updated - still contains 0% (invalid value)
BZ 1671397 [RFE] Add mousovers and brief help instructions to OVA import dialog
BZ 1721563 VM not started on the expected host since external weight policy units are ignored.
BZ 1712890 engine-setup should check for snapshots in unsupported CL

Now, on upgrade, engine-setup prompts about virtual machines that have snapshots that are incompatible with the version we are going to upgrade to. It’s safe to let it proceed, but it’s not safe to try using these snapshots after the upgrade, e.g. to preview them.
BZ 1706822 [engine-setup] Confusing message in engine-setup about installing local DBs manually
BZ 1632808 OVF import wrong error message
BZ 1609686 Get VMs response doesn’t match virsh output after updating of the serial number policy
BZ 1633240 can’t search in pools with comment
BZ 1684266 Exporting OVA timed out leaving orphan volume
BZ 1695026 Failure in creating snapshots during “Live Storage Migration” can result in a nonexistent snapshot
BZ 1666913 [UI] warn users about different “Vdsm Name” when creating network with a fancy char or long name
BZ 1679039 Unable to upload image through Storage->Domain->Disk because of wrong DC
BZ 1696748 UI exception seen when creating the new logical network and selecting that network
BZ 1693628 Engine generates too many updates to vm_dynamic table due to the session change

oVirt Engine UI Extensions

BZ 1714528 Missing IDs on cluster upgrade buttons
BZ 1786569 Export VM to data domain with the same name fails with no clear error in the UI
BZ 1786589 Export VM to data domain while snapshot is being created fails with no clear error in the UI
BZ 1786621 When exporting VM with snapshots to data domain without collapse - the VM is exported without the snapshots

oVirt Engine Metrics

BZ 1773313 RHV Metric store installation fails with error: “You need to install "jmespath" prior to running json_query filter”
BZ 1715511 Update README for Variable openshift_distribution to include RHV default
BZ 1687729 Code Change - Use dedicated Ansible module for manageing SELinux file context
BZ 1677679 Remove hacky things from ansible.cfg

oVirt Release Package

BZ 1756706 The sshd service of RHVH is inactive.
BZ 1757457 ovirt-release-host-node has python2 code in %post section of the spec file

oVirt Engine Appliance

BZ 1813291 Enable posgresql 12 module
BZ 1594548 [RFE] Ensure Cockpit is installed properly (on Engine): cockpit-bridge is not a deps, causing login failure to cockpit

oVirt-Cockpit SSO

BZ 1826248 [4.4][ovirt-cockpit-sso] Compatibility issues with python3

No Doc Update

oVirt Engine NodeJS Modules

BZ 1824523 cockpit is affected by multiple CVEs

oVirt Cockpit Plugin

BZ 1824523 cockpit is affected by multiple CVEs
BZ 1811989 [vdo] VDO systemd unit file shouldn’t be edited for modifying VDO max_discard_size
BZ 1752113 Hosted-Engine will not deploy if SSH access is not enabled for the root user.

oVirt Hosted Engine Setup

BZ 1752113 Hosted-Engine will not deploy if SSH access is not enabled for the root user.
BZ 1717991 ovirt-hosted-engine-setup requires pyliblzma which is available only for python2

OTOPI

BZ 1814940 otopi fails with: Python 2 is disabled in RHEL8
BZ 1525905 [RFE] otopi should notify about nonexistent before=/after= events

oVirt Hosted Engine HA

BZ 1794089 Ha-broker fails to recognize when HE VM’s storage is already locked - QEMU error message has changed
BZ 1786458 Python3: broker fails to update engine health status

VDSM

BZ 1820068 Live snapshot fails and leave disks in locked state
BZ 1819125 Cold storage migration to iscsi domain fails
BZ 1816004 Failed to create a new disk or copy template disk on iscsi of FCP storage domain - qemu-img: Protocol driver 'host_device' does not support image creation
BZ 1811425 VM CD-ROM payload device switch to an empty source file
BZ 1813961 vdsm-tool crashes on python3 change needed
BZ 1787222 Coredumps are broken since Fedora 26
BZ 1808850 Failed to create a new disk or copy template disk on iscsi domains due to OVF failure in ILLEGAL state
BZ 1807050 vgs are not seen immediately after iscsiadm login
BZ 1797477 Power Management configuration fails with JSON-RPC error
BZ 1692685 Bad/missing home directory for user vdsm causes a failure
BZ 1712832 Storage migration of a compressed image is failing with error “No space left on device” in block storage domain
BZ 1786451 hosted-engine –add-console-password fails with: expected string or bytes-like object
BZ 1529344 Printing vdsm configuration by running config.py fail with “AttributeError: ‘module’ object has no attribute ‘glob’“
BZ 1778638 [4.4.0-6] failed to add secondary hosts(HA) with error “Unable to stop service supervdsmd”
BZ 1760262 Bridge linux profile is not activated and stuck in connecting state after reboot
BZ 1768735 [rhv-4.4.0-4] - Adding ISCSI storage domains Failes with error VolumeGroupCreateError and code 502 - TypeError: devicemapper_removeMapping() missing 1 required positional argument: ‘deviceName’
BZ 1663661 vdsm uses obsolete python module ‘imp’
BZ 1753898 Make block size detection compatible with Gluster storage
BZ 1720977 [logging] limit getStats
BZ 1655593 Download only forbidden by vdsmupgrade yum plugin

oVirt vmconsole

BZ 1507920 /usr/share/ovirt-vmconsole/ovirt-vmconsole-host/ovirt-vmconsole-host-sshd/sshd_config line 23: Deprecated option RSAAuthentication

oVirt Engine

BZ 1816648 upgrade from 4.3 to 4.4 fails on pg_restore
BZ 1820182 ISCSI/FC- LSM/Cloning a VM(deep copy) from template fails in ‘MeasureVolumeVDS’ method with Could not open image No such file or directory
BZ 1823348 Attaching CDROM to a VM from an ISO residing on a block domain fails
BZ 1819205 [CodeChange][i18n] oVirt 4.4 webadmin - translation update
BZ 1820995 [OVN] ovirt-provider-ovn.service is dead after deploy/upgrade to ovirt-engine-4.4.0-0.31.master.el8ev.noarch
BZ 1819514 Failed to register 4.4 host to the latest engine (4.4.0-0.29.master.el8ev)
BZ 1819248 Cannot upgrade host after engine setup
BZ 1808126 host_service.install() does not work with deploy_hosted_engine as True.
BZ 1797927 [REST-API] Attaching/adding a disk with SATA interface to a VM fails with Exception Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unknown disk interface “SATA”
BZ 1814197 [CNV&RHV] when provider is remover DC is left behind and active
BZ 1712832 Storage migration of a compressed image is failing with error “No space left on device” in block storage domain
BZ 1732437 Remove direct kernel/initrd booting from oVirt Engine
BZ 1811869 [Scale] Webadmin\REST for host interface list response time is too long because of excessive amount of qos related sql queries
BZ 1811865 [Scale] Host Monitoring generates excessive amount of qos related sql queries
BZ 1584563 [RFE] Expand message in the main events view
BZ 1802270 Cluster Upgrade fails to run, AnsibleServlet fails to start the upgrade ansible playbook
BZ 1135786 [RFE] trim spaces in integer fields
BZ 1801194 User experience of ignition/Custom script textbox is low.
BZ 1809640 Engine should not explode if host reports duplicated nameservers
BZ 1788090 Failed to reinstall a host on upgraded 4.4: Task Copy vdsm and QEMU CSRs failed to execute
BZ 1807883 Can’t create a VM on firefox due to an “invalid regexp group” error
BZ 1779588 [RHVH-4.4.0] Unable to detect upgrade package, when upgrading RHVH from RHVM UI
BZ 1795184 Check for upgrade on RHEL 8 host always reports no updates
BZ 1791749 The engine allows adding a new host using IP as hostname while the host already exists and appears with FQDN
BZ 1802543 Support back compatibility with 4.3 cluster creating live snapshots
BZ 1791255 [RFE] There are no available hosts capable of running the engine VM. Why?
BZ 1800947 Clone VM action fails while the engine.log and events report success
BZ 1801129 separate dwh setup: No such file or directory: ‘/usr/share/ovirt-engine/selinux’
BZ 1798139 VirtIO-SCSI virtual disk cannot be added to VM.
BZ 1725003 [RFE] fail adding permissions when no user/group selected
BZ 1791007 [4.4] Connection to VM using vm-console failed
BZ 1691562 Cluster level changes are not increasing VMs generation numbers and so a new OVF_STORE content is not copied to the shared storage
BZ 1795281 [UI] Failed to create VM with a nasty NPE in the engine log (Query ‘IsVmTemplateI440fxQuery’ failed: null)
BZ 1786118 [4.4.0-17] failed to add secondary hosts(HA) with error “Unable to stop service vdsmd: Job for vdsmd.service canceled”
BZ 1752282 Cannot activate Host while RefreshHostCapabilitiesCommand is running
BZ 1780022 An internal retry to run VM is ignoring ignition payload, RHCOS goes into emergency

BZ 1787195 **[4.4.0-13] 1 out of 3 hosts non-responsive after ansible install finished - ovn-controller[20628]: ovs

00040

stream_ssl

ERR

Private key does not match certificate public key: error:140A80BE:SSL routines:SSL_CTX_check_private_key:no private key assigned**

BZ 1710724 Get wrong values while search VMs
BZ 1789262 Can not use clusters: datacenter.<anything> in search engine
BZ 1776306 [rhv-4.4.0-4] - Export VM(on a system upgraded from 4.3) as ova fails - Command ‘ExportVmToOva’ failed when attempting to perform the next operation
BZ 1523835 Hosted-Engine: memory hotplug does not work for engine vm
BZ 1749674 [RFE] Use Ansible instead of ovirt-host-deploy for host deployment
BZ 1784010 [rhv-4.4.0-9] Right after adding host to engine - Failed to execute Ansible host-deploy role: null with host unreachable
BZ 1785272 Host register failed with yum-utils
BZ 1715763 [RFE] Upgrade of host failed - yum lockfile is held by another process
BZ 1779085 Storage domain can not be deactivated with error Failed executing step ‘UPDATE_OVF_STORE’
BZ 1529042 [RFE] Changing of Cluster CPU Type does not trigger config update notification
BZ 1769212 Rest API for creating affinity group with labels is resulted with the group created with missing labels
BZ 1734729 [RFE] Update vdsm-jsonrpc-java to use OpenJDK 11 - both build and runtime
BZ 1759143 [RFE] Use ansible-runner-service instead of ansible-playbook to execute Ansible playbooks from engine
BZ 1718851 [RFE] Unmanaged disks should be kept after VM restart/poweroff
BZ 1705727 Cannot read property ‘a’ of undefined when approving host
BZ 1741625 VM fails to be re-started with error: Failed to acquire lock: No space left on device
BZ 1723804 Operation Failed: [Resource unavailable] - failed to sync networks on host
BZ 1751423 Improve description of shared memory statistics and remove unimplemented memory metrics from API
BZ 1758786 Removing of Affinity Label in Edit VM window throws java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException
BZ 1724632 When setting high custom compatibility version with ovirt_vm, java exception is returned
BZ 1754490 RHV Manager cannot start on EAP 7.2.4
BZ 1749944 teardownImage attempts to deactivate in-use LV’s rendering the VM disk image/volumes in locked state.
BZ 1734839 Unable to start guests in our Power9 cluster without running in headless mode.
BZ 1737684 Engine deletes the leaf volume when SnapshotVDSCommand timed out without checking if the volume is still used by the VM
BZ 1686650 Memory snapshots’ deletion logging unnecessary WARNINGS in engine.log
BZ 1741271 Move/Copy disk are blocked if there is less space in source SD than the size of the disk
BZ 1715725 Sending credentials in query string logs them in ovirt-request-logs
BZ 1730436 Snapshot creation was successful, but snapshot remains locked
BZ 1690155 Disk migration progress bar not clearly visible and unusable.
BZ 1530026 [RFE][UI] Remove external network selection on add host window
BZ 1654889 [RFE] Support console VNC for mediated devices
BZ 1700319 VM is going to pause state with “storage I/O error”.
BZ 1637172 Live Merge hung in the volume deletion phase, leaving snapshot in a LOCKED state
BZ 1696111 RHV could not detect Guest Agent when create snapshot for the running guest which installed qemu-guest-agent
BZ 1658524 Replace error notification with patternfly element
BZ 1616451 [UI] add a tooltip to explain the supported matrix for the combination of disk allocation policies, formats and the combination result
BZ 1700725 [scale] RHV-M runs out of memory due to to much data reported by the guest agent
BZ 1690475 When a live storage migration fails, the auto generated snapshot does not get removed
BZ 1498654 [RFE] Add correlation ID to events details page
BZ 1660644 Concurrent LSMs of the same disk can be issued via the REST-API

oVirt Engine Data Warehouse

BZ 1734718 [RFE] Update DWH to use OpenJDK 11 - both build and runtime

oVirt Engine UI Extensions

BZ 1807777 Fix cluster-upgrade playbook location to align with other playbooks executed from ovirt-engine via ansible-runner-service

oVirt Engine SDK 4 Java

BZ 1734728 [RFE] Update Java SDK to use OpenJDK 11 - both build and runtime

oVirt Engine Extension AAA-JDBC

BZ 1734720 [RFE] Update aaa-jdbc to use OpenJDK 11 - both build and runtime
BZ 1714633 Using more than one asterisk in the search string is not working when searching for users.

oVirt Engine Metrics

BZ 1762263 [RFE] Require Ansible 2.9 in ovirt-engine-metrics

VDSM JSON-RPC Java

BZ 1734729 [RFE] Update vdsm-jsonrpc-java to use OpenJDK 11 - both build and runtime

oVirt Release Package

BZ 1598404 branding: oVirt Node cockpit and oVirt Engine have different coloring

oVirt Engine Appliance

BZ 1802478 hosted-engine deploy does not configure a serial console in the engine vm

oVirt-Cockpit SSO

BZ 1789733 Host console SSO not working at all!

Contributors

134 people contributed to this release:

Ahmad Khiet
Ales Musil
Allon Mureinik
Amar Shah
Amit Bawer
Andrej Cernek
Andrej Krejcir
Arik Hadas
Artur Socha
Asaf Rachmani
Aviv Turgeman
Barak Korren
Bartosz Rybacki
Bell Levin
Beni Pelled
Benny Zlotnik
Bernhard M. Wiedemann
Bohdan Iakymets
Brian Ward
Camila Moura
Charles Thao
Dafna Ron
Dan Kenigsberg
Dana Elfassy
Daniel Erez
Denis Chaplygin
Dominik Holler
Douglas Schilling Landgraf
Dusan Fodor
Edward Haas
Ehud Yonasi
Eitan Raviv
Eli Mesika
Evgeny Slutsky
Evgheni Dereveanchin
Eyal Edri
Eyal Shenitzky
Fedor Gavrilov
Francesco Romani
Fred Rolland
Funkabell
Gal Zaidman
Germano Veit Michel
Gobinda Das
Greg Sheremeta
Hilda Stastna
Ido Rosenzwig
Irit Goihman
Jan Zmeskal
Joey
John Call
Juan Hernandez
Kaustav Majumder
Kedar Kulkarni
Klaas Demter
Kobi Hakimi
Lev Veyde
Liran Rotenberg
Lucia Jelinkova
Lukas Svaty
Marcin Sobczyk
Marek Libra
Martin Necas
Martin Nečas
Martin Perina
Martin Peřina
Martin Sivak
Mateusz Kowalski
Michal Skrivanek
Miguel Duarte Barroso
Miguel Martin
Milan Zamazal
Moti Asayag
Nijin Ashok
Nir Levy
Nir Soffer
NirLevyRH
Ondra Machacek
Ori Liel
Ori_Liel
Pavel Bar
Petr Kubica
Pierre Lecomte
Piotr Kliczewski
Prajith Kesava Prasad
Radoslaw Szwajkowski
Ravi Nori
Ritesh
Ritesh Chikatwar
Roberto Ciatti
Roman Hodain
Roy Golan
Ryan Barry
Ryan Kraus
Sahina Bose
Sandro Bonazzola
Scott Dickerson
Scott J Dickerson
Shani Leviim
Sharon Gratch
Shirly Radco
Shmuel Melamud
Siddhant Rao
Simone Tiraboschi
Steven Rosenberg
Tal Nisan
Tomasz Baranski
Tomáš Golembiovský
Uri Lublin
Vitor de Lima
Vojtech Juranek
Vojtech Szocs
Yaniv Bronhaim
Yedidyah Bar David
Yoav Kleinberger
Yotam Fromm
Yuval Turgeman
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benams1
bond95
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