Issued:
2012-06-20
Updated:
2012-06-20

RHBA-2012:0959 - virt-top and ocaml-libvirt bug fix update

Synopsis

virt-top and ocaml-libvirt bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated virt-top and ocaml-libvirt packages that fix two bugs are now available.

Description

The virt-top utility displays statistics of virtualized domains and uses many of the same keys and command line options as the top utility.

The ocaml-libvirt package provides OCaml (Objective CAML) bindings for libvirt, allowing users to write OCaml programs and scripts which control virtualization features.

These updated virt-top and ocaml-libvirt packages fix the following bug:

  • Output of the "virt-top -1" command (which displays physical CPU usage) did not contain all the needed information from libvirt in order to provide accurate accounting of physical CPU usage. With this update, the underlying source code has been modified to address this issue, and the "virt-top -1" output now displays accurate statistics. (BZ#737728)

All users of virt-top and ocaml-libvirt are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve these issues.

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 https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian6ppc64
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

  • ocaml-libvirt-devel-0.6.1.0-6.4.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • ocaml-libvirt-0.6.1.0-6.4.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • virt-top-1.0.4-3.13.el6.src.rpm
  • virt-top-1.0.4-3.13.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • ocaml-libvirt-devel-0.6.1.0-6.4.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • ocaml-libvirt-0.6.1.0-6.4.el6.src.rpm
  • virt-top-1.0.4-3.13.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • virt-top-1.0.4-3.13.el6.i686.rpm
  • ocaml-libvirt-0.6.1.0-6.4.el6.i686.rpm
  • ocaml-libvirt-devel-0.6.1.0-6.4.el6.i686.rpm
  • ocaml-libvirt-0.6.1.0-6.4.el6.ppc64.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

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Additional information