Bug 1899875

Summary: drop support for VM-FEX
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager Reporter: Dominik Holler <dholler>
Component: vdsmAssignee: Ales Musil <amusil>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Michael Burman <mburman>
Severity: high Docs Contact:
Priority: high    
Version: 4.4.4CC: amusil, lsurette, michal.skrivanek, mkalinin, mperina, srevivo, ycui
Target Milestone: ovirt-4.4.7Keywords: ZStream
Target Release: 4.4.7   
Hardware: Unspecified   
OS: Unspecified   
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Fixed In Version: vdsm-4.40.70.3 Doc Type: Deprecated Functionality
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: 1948962 (view as bug list) Environment:
Last Closed: 2021-07-22 15:08:31 UTC Type: Bug
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Bug Depends On: 1968424    
Bug Blocks: 1948962    

Comment 1 Michal Skrivanek 2021-04-13 07:15:47 UTC
as per bug 1937638 let's deprecate in 4.4.6 and remove in 4.4.7

Comment 2 Michal Skrivanek 2021-04-13 07:22:53 UTC
In 4.4.7 we should remove the vdsm product listing too (old versions are still going to be there though, but that's ok...)

Comment 3 Sandro Bonazzola 2021-04-13 08:13:24 UTC
(In reply to Michal Skrivanek from comment #2)
> In 4.4.7 we should remove the vdsm product listing too (old versions are
> still going to be there though, but that's ok...)

Isn't it enough to drop it from VDSM at all? Or is there a plan to keep the hook packages in vdsm for usptream but don't ship it in RHV?

Comment 4 Michal Skrivanek 2021-05-11 08:09:52 UTC
the hooks can remain upstream, not all of them work anyway

Comment 5 Sandro Bonazzola 2021-06-04 05:37:48 UTC
All referenced patches have been merged, can you please check this bug status?

Comment 6 Ales Musil 2021-06-08 09:26:54 UTC
Waiting for the documentation bug to be resolved.

Comment 10 Michael Burman 2021-06-14 08:47:45 UTC
Verified on - vdsm-4.40.70.3-1.el8ev.x86_64

- Updating from 4.4.6 vdsm > 4.4.7 vdsm will drop and remove the vmfex hook
- If the vmfex hook installed on 4.4.7 and updating to another 4.4.7 the hook will be updated
- If installing fresh 4.4.7 vdsm the vmfex hook won't be installed
- The hook will still be available for installations if user choose to do so
vdsm-hook-vmfex-dev.noarch : VM-FEX vNIC support for VDSM

Comment 11 RHEL Program Management 2021-06-22 04:00:21 UTC
The documentation text flag should only be set after 'doc text' field is provided. Please provide the documentation text and set the flag to '?' again.

Comment 12 Michal Skrivanek 2021-06-22 06:54:59 UTC
(In reply to Michael Burman from comment #10)

> - The hook will still be available for installations if user choose to do so
> vdsm-hook-vmfex-dev.noarch : VM-FEX vNIC support for VDSM

and that is not correct. it's supposed to be removed. older version will remain in CDN, but we should stop publishing new ones

Comment 20 errata-xmlrpc 2021-07-22 15:08:31 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 (RHV RHEL Host (ovirt-host) [ovirt-4.4.7]), 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://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2021:2864