4.8. Configuring Satellite errata viewing for a virtual machine

Prerequisites

• The Satellite server must be added as an external provider.

• The Manager and any virtual machines on which you want to view errata must all be registered in the Satellite server by their respective FQDNs. This ensures that external content host IDs do not need to be maintained in Red Hat Virtualization.

  Important

  Virtual machines added using an IP address cannot report errata.

• The host that the virtual machine runs on also needs to be configured to receive errata information from Satellite.
• The virtual machine must have the ovirt-guest-agent package installed. This package enables the virtual machine to report its host name to the Red Hat Virtualization Manager, which enables the Red Hat Satellite server to identify the virtual machine as a content host and report the applicable errata.
• The virtual machine must be registered to the Red Hat Satellite server as a content host.
• Use Red Hat Satellite remote execution to manage packages on hosts.

Additional resources

• Setting up Satellite errata viewing for a host in the Administration Guide
• Installing the Guest Agents, Tools, and Drivers on Linux in the Virtual Machine Management Guide for Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtual machines.
• Installing the Guest Agents, Tools, and Drivers on Windows in the Virtual Machine Management Guide for Windows virtual machines.