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

RHBA-2011:0748 - spice-xpi bug fix update

Synopsis

spice-xpi bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

An updated spice-xpi package that fixes three bugs is now available.

Description

The Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments (SPICE) is a remote display protocol designed for virtual environments. SPICE users can view a virtualized desktop or server from the local system or any system with network access to the server. SPICE is available for a variety of machine architectures and operating systems.

SPICE is used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux for viewing virtualized guests running on the KVM hypervisor or on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisors. This package contains a SPICE extension that allows the client to be used from a web browser.

Bugs fixed in this updated package include:

  • Version was added to plugin name string. This allows the plugin version to be discovered from within the browser. (BZ#672761)

  • Location and name of logfile & unix-domain-socket was changed, they are now placed in ~/.spicec/ and the name prefix is now spice-xpi. (BZ#630601)

  • spicec is now searched for in /usr/bin, if not found in /usr/libexec. (BZ#672497)

Users planning to use the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager are advised to upgrade to this updated spice-xpi package.

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 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 Desktop6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6i386

Updated Packages

  • spice-xpi-debuginfo-2.4-4.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • spice-xpi-debuginfo-2.4-4.el6.i686.rpm
  • spice-xpi-2.4-4.el6.src.rpm
  • spice-xpi-2.4-4.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • spice-xpi-2.4-4.el6.i686.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information