[ovirt-users] latest CentOS libvirt updates safe?

[Nir Soffer]

On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 8:51 PM, Brett I. Holcomb <biholcomb at l1049h.com> wrote:
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> On 06/25/2016 10:57 AM, Robert Story wrote:
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> I have oVirt 3.5.x on CentOS 7 hosts. These hosts have updates which
> include livbirt:
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>  libvirt-client                   x86_64  1.2.17-13.el7_2.5      updates
> 4.3 M
>  libvirt-daemon                   x86_64  1.2.17-13.el7_2.5      updates
> 585 k
>  libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter   x86_64  1.2.17-13.el7_2.5      updates
> 122 k
>  libvirt-daemon-driver-interface  x86_64  1.2.17-13.el7_2.5      updates
> 162 k
>  libvirt-daemon-driver-network    x86_64  1.2.17-13.el7_2.5      updates
> 302 k
>  libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev    x86_64  1.2.17-13.el7_2.5      updates
> 161 k
>  libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter   x86_64  1.2.17-13.el7_2.5      updates
> 185 k
>  libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu       x86_64  1.2.17-13.el7_2.5      updates
> 571 k
>  libvirt-daemon-driver-secret     x86_64  1.2.17-13.el7_2.5      updates
> 155 k
>  libvirt-daemon-driver-storage    x86_64  1.2.17-13.el7_2.5      updates
> 328 k
>  libvirt-daemon-kvm               x86_64  1.2.17-13.el7_2.5      updates
> 118 k
>  libvirt-lock-sanlock
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> Is it safe to let yum update these packages while the host has running VMs?
> in maintenance mode? or not at all?
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> Robert
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> I saw a response where we are supposed to go to maintenance mode and then
> VMs will migrate but i've got nowhere to migrate to as I'm on a host with
> hosted Engine and no other host to migrate to.  So do I shutdown all VMs and
> then go to maintenance mode and then update and reboot my host?

In this case you cannot put the host into maintenance, since hosted
engine is running on this host.

Adding Simone to add more details on hosted engine upgrades.

Nir