Bug 1500579 – [RFE] Balloon service should be installed

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Bug 1500579 - [RFE] Balloon service should be installed

Summary:	[RFE] Balloon service should be installed

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	rhev-guest-tools (Show other bugs)
Sub Component:
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Unspecified Unspecified

Priority	medium Severity medium
Target Milestone:	ovirt-4.2.2
Target Release:	---
Assigned To:	Lev Veyde
QA Contact:	Petr Matyáš
Docs Contact:

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Keywords:	FutureFeature

Depends On:
Blocks:
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Reported:	2017-10-11 01:17 EDT by lijin
Modified:	2018-05-15 13:57 EDT (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

See Also:	1496458 1497322
Fixed In Version:
Doc Type:	Enhancement
Doc Text:	In the current release, the Balloon service, which provides usage information, is installed and enabled in the host by default, wherever the Balloon driver is installed.
Story Points:	---
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed:	2018-05-15 13:56:23 EDT
Type:	Bug
Regression:	---
Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---
CRM:
Verified Versions:
Category:	---
oVirt Team:	Integration
RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---

Flags:	pmatyas: testing_plan_complete-

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External Trackers
Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHEA-2018:1517	None	None	None	2018-05-15 13:57 EDT

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Description lijin 2017-10-11 01:17:48 EDT

Description of problem:
As https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1496458#c5 said,rhev-guest-tools should handle balloon service installation.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rhev-guest-tools-iso-4.2-1

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1.boot guest and attach RHEV-toolsSetup_4.2_1.iso
2.click RHEV-toolsSetup.exe and install all features
3.reboot guest

Actual results:
after step3,balloon driver is installed,but the balloon service is not.

Expected results:
balloon service should be installed as well.
 # blnsvr.exe -i

Additional info:

Comment 2 Petr Matyáš 2018-02-27 08:37:05 EST

Using rhv-guest-tools-iso-4.2-2.el7ev.noarch

Balloon service is installed but not started.

Comment 3 Lev Veyde 2018-03-04 07:38:24 EST

(In reply to Petr Matyáš from comment #2)
> Using rhv-guest-tools-iso-4.2-2.el7ev.noarch
> 
> Balloon service is installed but not started.

Please use the one on errata: rhv-guest-tools-iso-4.2-4.el7ev.noarch

The issue was fixed in: rhv-guest-tools-iso-4.2-3.el7ev.noarch

Comment 4 Petr Matyáš 2018-03-05 11:19:10 EST

Verified on rhv-guest-tools-iso-4.2-4.el7ev.noarch

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2018-05-15 13:56:23 EDT

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://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2018:1517

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