Authors:

Douglas Landgraf

Sven Kieske

oVirt 3.4.1 release notes

The oVirt Project is pleased to announce the availability of oVirt 3.4.1 release.

oVirt is an open source alternative to VMware vSphere, and provides an awesome KVM management interface for multi-node virtualization.

To find out more about features which were added in previous oVirt releases, check out the oVirt 3.4 Release Notes, oVirt 3.3.5 release notes, oVirt 3.2 release notes and oVirt 3.1 release notes. For a general overview of oVirt, read the oVirt 3.0 feature guide and the about oVirt page.

oVirt 3.4.1 release notes

Install / Upgrade from previous versions

Fedora / CentOS / RHEL

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

# yum localinstall http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/yum-repo/ovirt-release34.rpm

If you’re upgrading from a previous version you should have ovirt-release package already installed on your system.

You can then install ovirt-release34.rpm as in a clean install side-by-side.

If you’re upgrading from oVirt 3.4.0 you can now remove ovirt-release package:

  # yum remove ovirt-release
  # yum update "ovirt-engine-setup*"
  # engine-setup

If you’re upgrading from 3.3.2 or later, keep ovirt-release rpm in place until the upgrade is completed.

  # yum update "ovirt-engine-setup*"
  # engine-setup

If you’re upgrading from oVirt <= 3.3.1 you must first upgrade to oVirt 3.3.5. Please see oVirt 3.3.5 release notes for upgrading instructions.

oVirt Node

A new oVirt Node ISO is available:

http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-3.4/iso/ovirt-node-iso-3.4-20140508.2.el6.iso

oVirt Live

A new oVirt Live ISO is available:

http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-3.4/iso/ovirt-live-3.4.1.el6ev.iso

What’s New in 3.4.1?

Known issues

Host deployment may fail on EL6 system due to a recent tuned regression (, ). Please downgrade tuned to previous version while waiting for a new tuned package solving this issue.
ovirt-log-collector installation fails on Fedora 19 due to a conflict with sos 3.0 recently introduced also on release 19 () as workaround please downgrade sos before installing ovirt-engine:

# yum downgrade sos
after installing ovirt-engine yum update will fail on Fedora 19 due to sos 3.0 conflict with ovirt-log-collector () as workaround please exclude sos from yum updates adding the following line in /etc/yum.conf:

exclude=sos

Bugs fixed

oVirt Engine

engine: cannot remove template due to failure in commands performed on vm’s which are based on template (template is marked as shared)
[Backend][domain_scan] NPE when scanning for unregistered images on non-existent domain
displayNetwork must have an IP address on host
After power outage, storage reported as up while none of the hosts are up
[engine][neutron] Port leftover if hot-plug new vNIC fails
[oVirt] [glance] API version not specified in provider dialog
[ALL_LANG][Admin Portal] Host tab -> Network Interfaces subtab ->Setup Host Networks -> remove ‘menu for’ header
[RHEVM][webadmin] remove VM network checkbox from manage network dialog
[ALL_LANG][Admin_Portal][User_Portal] Header -> Guide -> Missing Language message unlocalized
Port mirroring checkbox should be greyed out for update if that VNIC profile is located on VM
The engine-manage-domains tool ignores the Kerberos servers from DNS when using -ldapServers
Exception for corrupted ovf in export domain, is not sent to engine log.
[engine-backend] Guaranteed RAM memory of a VM can be set to a higher value than the actual memory size
Setup Host Networks dialog: Unnecessary “Add NIC to Bond” Item
Setup Host Networks dialog: A certain scenario leads to a Bond with only one NIC
Time Zone of Sri Lanka in “Initial Run” Section of “New Virtual Machine” and “Edit Virtual Machine” Configuration is WRONG
cloud-init: gateway shouldn’t be mandatory on run once window
components do not have severity initialized on engine start
[Admin Portal] Cluster: initialized = false does not change view
VM update REST API call returns success instead of error on a wrongly formed xml
[engine-backend] [RO disks] cannot change unplugged disk r/o status while VM is running
setupNetworks: nic with dhcp cannot be bonded
After a power outage two VMs marked as HA failed to start automatically, they were required to be started manually.
Bookmarks do not work when the selected tree-node in the System tree is not “System”
SQL exception after discovery when configuring the first ISCSI data domain
[engine-backend] Attaching a disk as active to a running VM (hotplug), is not blocked for an IDE disk interface
[engine-backend] engine asks for vdsManager of a host that was removed from the system
[legacy upgrade 3.2->3.3] misleading information
High availability parameters are not fully restored on import vm/template
UI: Add new role permission drop below the end of the screen
Allow to change the version name of a sub template
Snapshotpane empty after autologout
Autologout does not work in VM view (snapshot pane open)
On create new network window the “Enter” key is not press “OK”
[RHEVM] [webadmin] improve tooltip on subnet mask in setup networks
Create engine-setup answer-file even if setup is aborted
Import domain dialog empty selectboxes
SSH injection via cloud-init UI doesn’t work for root user
[RHEVM] [webadmin] [network labels] cannot assign more than 5 labels to host network interface because there in no scrollbar
[engine-setup] ascii check for ISO Domain name should be done immediately when defining domain name
When creating new VM in advanced view “Start running on” is blank for the second cluster
[RHEVM] [webadmin] weird dots in Setup Host Networks dialog
[webadmin] UI is confusing for defining a network connection to a vm
[RHEVM] [webadmin] [network labels] incorrect tool-tip display for logical networks assigned to host interface by labeling
Remove ovirt-scheduler-proxy external module failed
RHEVM user and admin portal logging attempt display
[RHEVM] [webadmin] incorrect behavior on creating new VM when rhevm runs out of MAC addresses
[oVirt] [Frontend] Blank template is available in New Pool dialog
‘engine-backup –mode=restore’ fails after engine-cleanup on postgres 8
Every thirty minutes OnVdsDuringFailureTimer is shown in engine log
[webadmin] incorrect behavior of manual refresh in Host Main Tab
Please modify /sysprep file in /etc/ovirt-engine/sysprep folder.
[Neutron integration] The Neutron network UUID should be the ID of the network on RHEV
Run Once allows starting a ppc64 or Windows 8 VM with SPICE
[webadmin] use all available space for network display in Setup Host Networks dialog
Ambiguous hint for setting up SSH trusts [TEXT]
sysprep timezone is not working when create pool from template.
Under Even VM Count Distribution cluster policy minimal values for properties is 5
‘engine-backup –mode=restore’ fails after engine-cleanup on postgres 8
When assigning permissions to user that belongs to a group indirectly, it does not inherit the group permissions
No host interface configuration history data for unbounded host interfaces
It’s possible to set nonsense value of RAM size of vm/template.
[oVirt] [Fix] Add sPAPR VLAN in the REST API
rhevm-config is over writing the previous ‘UserDefinedVMProperties’ when used without a semicolon(;)
Host stays in non-operation state after unreachable required network becomes accessible
engine should report the interface name for which “Used Network resources of host xxxxxxxx [100%] exceeded defined threshold [95%]” message is applicable.
CpuOverCommitDurationMinutes limited to a single digit value by regular expression in database scripts
RHEVM Admin GUI [Text] - Configure - Roles - “DataCenterAdmin” Description is not fully show
Editing VM clears the VNIC profiles
[engine-backend] [single-disk-snapshot] snapshot restore to only part of VM’s disks will delete all other disks attached to the VM
Not able to push more than one external event in 30 second using REST API
Tooltip descriptions for Console Invocation are vague
VM is not locked on run once
Importing image from glance as a template should be blocked on DC level lower than 3.4
Upgrade of Spice ActiveX plugin on IE11.
[engine-backend] [single-disk-snapshot] [RO-disk] snapshot of RO are not included in the VM snapshots disks table
[engine-backend] [RO-disk] [Single-disk-snapshot] NullPointerException for TryBackToAllSnapshotsOfVm when custom previewing a single RO disk snapshot
Role UserInstanceManager has import_export_vm action group, but there is no such action in UserPortal.
Incorrect error message when coming back from rollback
[webadmin] Group ‘user name’ should be empty value In column ‘user name’ in user tab.
[engine] imported template into domain with its original template causes the imported template to become subversion of the original tempalte
[engine] Attempting to import a template that is a subversion of another template when the base does not exist fails with unclear error message
[NetworkLabels] Networks with roles should be configured on hosts with ‘DHCP’ boot protocol
Upgrading a hypervisor automatically puts it into an Up state
When cache of users is refreshed wrong group id is stored for user group membership
[engine-webadmin] [shared-DC] Target domains should be filtered by the source domain type (file/block) for live moving disks from ‘Disks’ main tab
The Memory Size of a VM is editable when the VM is powered up.
Disks tab crashes with SQL Exception
[RHEVM] error displayed when fencing test fails is not meaningful
Changing the label of error network doesn’t reattach the network to the nic
engine-config man page clarifications
engine-backup has no man page
Show only setup packages during upgrade check
engine should report the interface name for which “Used Network resources of host xxxxxxxx [100%] exceeded defined threshold [95%]” message is applicable.
There is no separation between creating a template and subversion template
[pki] create lock file accessible only to whom can actually enroll
[oVirt] [Fix] SPICE proxy wrong in Pool
With VNC and single pci enabled combination, rhevm3.4 failed to create guest-image vm from template
VdsNotRespondingTreatment Job is not marked as finished.
PRD34 - [RFE] REST API for importing glance image as a template
[WEBADMIN][TEXT] Fix popup text, when dashboard is accessed 1st time to more friendly one
[RHEVM] [webadmin] inconsistent behavior of gateway field for VLAN with static IP configuration
KeystoneAuthUrl description’s example is missing the version
engine-setup fails on upgrade, tries to install ovirt-engine-setup instread of rhevm-setup
RHEVM Webadmin portal displays the vm migration completed time incorrectly
RHEV 3.3 - Live Migration fails with ERROR: insert or update on table “step” violates foreign key constraint “fk_step_job”
HA vms not starts on host with PM that restarted via engine
Template search bar is not working
[vdsm] cannot activate storage domain when iscsi multipath is configured on host
After host power outage HA vms, failed to run first time because ACTION_TYPE_FAILED_VDS_VM_MEMORY
Cannot create pool with pattern-based naming scheme for VMs
[RHEVM] engine-upgrade-check => Error: Package ovirt-engine-setup cannot be found
The ‘Password’ field is not visible after selecting a Foreman host in the New Host window
Missing “Family” string in Intel Haswell listing name
[TEXT] taskcleaner.sh has dangerously misleading help text
Not Responding Treatment is broken
Cannot add a floating disk from webadmin
Failed approved RHEVH for rhev3.2 host in rhevm av4 with Data Centers 3.2 + 3.2 Cluster
[Admin Portal] Hot adding ‘Dual mode rtl8139, VirtIO’ network iface failure - VDSErrorException: Failed to HotPlugNicVDS
The RSDL documentation of the cloud-init hostname property should be host.address
External_id should be removed from user and group
[host-deploy][node-upgarde] Pipe closed at the end of vdsm-upgrade
HA VM not start on host with PM after manual fence
[AAA] External user UI access unstable
Missing fields in snmp notifications
UI: Cluster dialog - filter architecture based on the supported CPUs
Cant Assign Quotas to external groups
ClassCastException when trying to add a permission to admin@internal
[engine-webadmin] Default cluster compatibility version isn’t correlated to the DC compatibility version when using ‘New DC Guide Me’
[RFE] 3.4 product translation: translation update 2
manage-domains traceback on empty password
[RFE] RHEL 7 Guest Support
[RHEVM] [welcome-screen]: Non English docs can not be opened from the welcome screen
Disallow domains of mixed subtypes (block/file) on data centers with version < 3.4
[Admin Portal] Hot adding ‘Dual mode rtl8139, VirtIO’ network iface failure - VDSErrorException: Failed to HotPlugNicVDS
Pre-seeded Apache redirect directive ignored by engine-setup
webadmin: wrong data in Alignment column of Disks sub-tab under Storage main-tab
RHEV-M server appears to send the bad authentication to the AD server repeatedly, locking the account.
[engine-backend] [external-provider] NullPointerException for AddVmTemplate during importing an image from glance as a template
Cannot create template - not possible to submit the New Template dialog
VM remains locked after failing to migrate Bugs fixed between RC and GA:
[Admin Portal] New VM ignores osinfo properties for network card, it is always VirtIO
[ja_JP][Admin Portal] String ‘Network Provider’ broken into two lines in ‘New Host’ dailog.
can’t set a static network via Cloud-Init GUI in 3.3.1-2 beta
[engine-backend] Engine copyImage request to vdsm is transmitted with sdUUID value of an inactive SD
Balancing cluster doesn’t add VM’s Predicted CPU load into acceptable hosts load
Failed to create data center with default version
“too many” permissions needed for creating a VM pool
[DWH-OTOPI-SETUP] - Backup handling was removed and restore is done automatically
engine-config errors when used by non-root
Move sparse raw disk from NFS to iSCSI domain is not supported
“OK” button still has focus when editing user-data
custom properties sheet: no ‘-‘ (remove) button in last row of sheet
[backup] extend backup to dwh/reports
External users unable to live migrate disks to new storage domain
No domain is listed in New VM window: Domain drop down for Windows OS.
[webadmin] DC subtabs - refreshes are visible
REST API for hosted engine maintenance operations
[host-deploy] ovirt-node upgrade results in null point exception if initial installation of node failed in past
Labels should be filtered by product (RHEV/Neutron)
VM’s can’t be started after fresh install
[ovirt][webadmin] SessionID for REST API stores in browser Local Storage
Can’t configure vNIC QoS to “unlimited” once it had been set
[ja_JP][de_DE][User Portal] String broken into two lines in ‘Console Options’ dialog.
Tracker: oVirt 3.4.1 release
[REST API] NullPointerException thrown when importing a template without specifying storage domain
installation of rhev-h in webadmin failed due to wrong filename for version.txt
manage domains FileNotFoundException exception
Distinguish between manual fence resulted from user action and manual fence called internally by auto fence
[RFE][notifier] Event Notifications List Text File
Label reference missing under Network and HostNics in API XSD
[engine-backend] Engine reports that disk resize had succeeded although it failed on vdsm
rhevm creates glusterfs SD on unsupported datacenter versions (3.2..)
Label reference missing under Network and HostNics in API XSD
[ALL_LANG][Admin_Portal] Default Storage Domain drop down box is not aligned to the text
[de_DE, pt_BR, es_ES, fr_FR][RHEVM-3.4.0.5] [Admin Portal] Help button overlap issue on clusters->New->Console tab.
[RFE] 3.4 product translation: translation update 3
[host-deploy] missing ssh fingerprint in registration protocol v1
[dbscripts] engine-setup fails: ERROR: insert or update on table “tags_user_map” violates foreign key constraint “tags_user_map_user”
HTTP 500 on expired session request
Uprgrade from is35.1 to av7 fails on dbscript
Guide me dialog got stuck(NPE) in DataCenter tab if exists pending approval host
engine-config’s manual should be updated regarding new command –merge
db upgrade fails if there’s a subscription to VDS_HIGH_NETWORK_USE event
[BUG] can’t boot vm with cloud-init data submitted as json via REST api

oVirt Iso Uploader

[engine-iso-uploader] INFO: Use the -h option to see usage - when put incorrect iso domain
The ISO uploader assumes that the storage domain uses NFS

oVirt Image Uploader

Man page for rhevm-image-uploader is missing options

oVirt Hosted Engine Setup

hosted-engine fails when cdrom is chosen as the source for the installation.
hosted-engine-setup fails at “Waiting for cluster to become operational”
hosted-engine script fails with Traceback when cluster doesn’t return a CPU type