Month: September 2020

USERTrust RSA CA certificate in old CentOS /Red Hat expired

This has become a problem for some people that has flexVDI installed on not updated CentOS / Red Hat < 7.8  machines. USERTrust RSA is the CA that signed the certificates in our web servers, including portal.flexvdi.com, which is used by flexvdi-config to download licenses, and updated releases of flexVDI manager.

When sysadmins try to connect to flexVDI portal using flexvdi-config, they will see an message like:

 

To solve this problem, just run in your flexVDI hosts:

# yum update -y ca-certificates

 

And flexvdi-config will work right again.

Released flexVDI agent 3.1.7

Fixes a bug in the creation of flexvdi manager that causes flexvdi manager to get a wrong clock time from the hardware clock when it is started, if the flexVDI Host is not configured in UTC.

The fix will take effect after updating the package, the next time flexVDI manager is started.

The new release can be updated executing in the flexVDI hosts:

# yum -y update flexvdi-agent

Released flexVDI manager 3.1.5

Changes since 3.1.4

  • Create a communication channel between libvirt (running in flexVDI hosts), and qemu guest agent (running in guests).
    • enables safe creation of flexVDI guests snapshots using libvirt.
    • Improves the reliability of shutdown in guests running qemu guest agent.
  • Fixed bug: release flexVDI license when guest cannot be started because of a problem, like a Pool that has run out of resources.

 

flexVDI manager is available for update running flexvdi-config command on the host where the current manager is running. Instructions are available here. Also it can be manually downloaded from portal.flexvdi.com, for servers not connected to the internet.

Released flexVDI manager 3.1.4

Changes since 3.1.3

  • Includes support for LDAPS protocol (LDAP over TLS/SSL). Instructions for configuring flexVDI manager to trust additional CA’s or server certificates is available at https://docs.flexvdi.com/display/V31/Authenticating+users+with+LDAPS
  • Port 7777 is now reserved and, flexVDI does not try to use it for spice connection to guest virtual machines. This port is used by default by the OCFS2 file system, which is usually used by flexVDI hosts. This number can be changed setting the value of “flexvdi.host_reserved.port” in /flexvdi/external/manager/flexvdi.conf.

 

flexVDI manager is available for update running flexvdi-config command on the host where the current manager is running. Instructions are available here. Also it can be manually downloaded from portal.flexvdi.com, for servers not connected to the internet.

Released flexvdi-webportal 3.1.1

Changes since 3.1.0

This release includes several changes:

  • Kiosk mode is properly implemented in the HTM5 client: when using a unauthenticated policy, end user is not required to enter a user password any more.
  • Full restyling: modern look with new background, fonts…
  • Desktop list presented to the end user is sorted, for easily finding the desired desktop.
  • Terminal ID is now shown in the login screen.
  • All software in the base system is updated to the latest CentOS 7.8 release.
  • Updated jquery library.

The new release can be freely downloaded at https://flexvdi.com/en/downloads

Installation instructions are available at https://docs.flexvdi.com/display/V31/WebPortal