Bug 1419062

Summary:	[ESX][open-vm-tools][RHEL7.4]When running docker containers, the open-vm-tools SyncDriver fails to quiesce filesystems and returns an error
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik>
Component:	open-vm-tools	Assignee:	Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	ldu <ldu>
Severity:	urgent	Docs Contact:
Priority:	urgent
Version:	7.3	CC:	ailan, bbreard, boyang, brdwyer, cavery, dphillip, jbryant, jherrman, jjarvis, jmagrini, jsavanyo, ldu, leiwang, ravindrakumar, rjones, sbeal, vmware-gos-qa, yacao
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	ZStream
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:	open-vm-tools-10.0.5-4.el7_3	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	Prior to this update, taking a snapshot of a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 guest on the VMWare ESXi hypervisor failed if docker images were running on the guest. With this update, the vmtoolsd service properly quiesces the guest file system in the described scenario, which makes it possible for the snapshots to be taken.	Story Points:	---
Clone Of:	1406483	Environment:
Last Closed:	2017-03-02 17:27:45 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:
Bug Depends On:	1406483
Bug Blocks:

Description Jaroslav Reznik 2017-02-03 15:08:05 UTC

This bug has been copied from bug #1406483 and has been proposed
to be backported to 7.3 z-stream (EUS).

Comment 4 Richard W.M. Jones 2017-02-03 16:37:57 UTC

For those wishing to test the open-vm-tools package containing
fixes for bug 1418949, bug 1419059 and bug 1419062:

http://oirase.annexia.org/tmp/bz1418949/

Comment 7 GOS QA 2017-02-07 09:53:47 UTC

(In reply to Richard W.M. Jones from comment #4)
> For those wishing to test the open-vm-tools package containing
> fixes for bug 1418949, bug 1419059 and bug 1419062:
> 
> http://oirase.annexia.org/tmp/bz1418949/

Hi Richard,

We have reproduced the issues: 1418949, 1419059 and 1419062, and verified the fixes in the patch bz1418949.  

Tomorrow we're going to review it with other team to see if any impacted areas should be tested, and what kind of regression testing is needed.

Could you send us the diff file of the source code change in this patch? So that we could evaluate which might be impacted and should be tested.

Thank you very much!

Best regards,
Hang Rao

Comment 8 Richard W.M. Jones 2017-02-07 11:07:34 UTC

You've already got it.  Unpack the SRPM and examine the source
and patches:

$ echo "%_topdir $HOME/rpmbuild" > ~/.rpmmacros
$ rpm -ivh open-vm-tools-10.0.5-4.el7_3.src.rpm
$ cd rpmbuild/

and examine SPECS/open-vm-tools.spec and SOURCES/*

Comment 9 GOS QA 2017-02-07 23:12:39 UTC

(In reply to Richard W.M. Jones from comment #8)
> You've already got it.  Unpack the SRPM and examine the source
> and patches:
> 
> $ echo "%_topdir $HOME/rpmbuild" > ~/.rpmmacros
> $ rpm -ivh open-vm-tools-10.0.5-4.el7_3.src.rpm
> $ cd rpmbuild/
> 
> and examine SPECS/open-vm-tools.spec and SOURCES/*

Thanks, will look at it.

Comment 10 ldu 2017-02-09 06:35:32 UTC

verify this bug with RHEL7.3 guest on ESXi 6.0 host.

As this bug mentioned in comments 7, QE from vmware had verified this bug,
so we did some sanity test with open-vm-tools-10.0.5-4.el7_3.x86_64.rpm and open-vm-tools-desktop-10.0.5-4.el7_3.x86_64.rpm,no issue found.
It is pass with sanity test.
The bug related host version: ESXi 6.0
The bug related guest version: kernel 3.10.0-514.6.1.el7.x86_64
The test result: Verified

Comment 11 GOS QA 2017-02-09 10:10:23 UTC

We (VMware GOSV QE) also have done the verification for this bug.
Test Env:
  Host: Esxi6.5GA
  Guest:RHEL7.3 + the provided open-vm-tools-10.0.5-4.el7_3.x86_64.rpm and open-vm-tools-desktop-10.0.5-4.el7_3.x86_64.rpm

Test scenario:
  1. Checked QuiesceSnapshot With Docker container running;
  2. Several other positive and negative testings for QuiesceSnapshot;
  3. Checked whether all the necessary files and services are present. 

All the testings are Pass.

Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2017-03-02 17:27:45 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2017-0391.html