Issued:
2011-05-19
Updated:
2011-05-19

RHBA-2011:0637 - virt-manager bug fix and enhancement update

Synopsis

virt-manager bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

An updated virt-manager package that provides bug fixes and adds enhancements is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

Virtual Machine Manager (virt-manager) is a graphical tool for administering virtual machines for KVM, Xen, and QEMU. virt-manager can start, stop, add or remove virtualized devices, connect to a graphical or serial console, and view resource usage statistics for existing virtualized guests on local or remote machines. It uses the libvirt API.

The virt-manager package has been upgraded to upstream version 0.8.6, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version.

Interesting enhancements include:

  • Option to configure guest CPU model, including an option to mimic host CPU in the guest, which can greatly improve performance. (BZ#647306)

  • Option to configure CPU topology (sockets, cores, threads). This enables using more CPUs with OS which have a support limit on sockets (the default vcpu type).

  • Cancellation and progress reporting for 'Save' and 'Migrate' operations.

  • Option to see the error message if a hotplug operation fails. This can be useful in determining if hotplug for the specified device type is supported and failure was expected. (BZ#613546)

  • Use of ICH6 sound device model by default.

Interesting bug fixes include:

  • Previously, if selecting 'Customize before install' at the end of the 'New VM' wizard and the install process failed, any custom changes made were forgotten if the installation was re-run. This is now fixed. (BZ#619894)

  • Previously, the 'New VM' wizard incorrectly capped maximum guest memory at 32GB. This limitation has been removed. (BZ#640781)

All users of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 should upgrade to these updated packages.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at This content is not included.https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian6ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6i386

Updated Packages

  • virt-manager-0.8.6-4.el6.src.rpm
  • virt-manager-0.8.6-4.el6.noarch.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information