Issued:
2014-10-13
Updated:
2014-10-13

RHBA-2014:1447 - virt-manager bug fix and enhancement update

Synopsis

virt-manager bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

Updated virt-manager packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

Updated virt-manager packages that fix several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Virtual Machine Manager (virt-manager) is a graphical tool for administering virtual machines for KVM, Xen, and QEMU. The virt-manager utility uses the libvirt API and 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.

This update fixes the following bugs:

  • Due to a bug in the virt-manager package, the virt-manager application failed to connect to a remote host machine trough IPv6. Also, virt-manager failed to create virtual guests with remote connections through IPv6. This bug has been fixed and virt-manager now successfully opens IPv6 connections to remote hosts and creates guests with such connections as expected. (BZ#870383, BZ#1094600)

  • When creating a virtual machine (VM), the virt-manager application incorrectly configured a custom added TCP net console device. The bug has been fixed and TCP consoles are now configured correctly when creating a VM. (BZ#918451)

  • When starting the virt-manager application over SSH without enabled x-forwarding, virt-manager terminated and returned a traceback instead of an informative error message. With this update, virt-manager has been modified to return a well-formed error message in the aforementioned scenario. (BZ#1025706)

  • After executing the pm-suspend command on the guest virtual machine, the virt-manager application displayed the status of this guest as "Running" instead of "Suspended". The bug has been fixed and virt-manager now shows the correct status of suspended guests. (BZ#1091292)

  • Previously, after clicking the 'refresh volume list' button in the virt-manager GUI, the virt-manager application became unresponsive. This bug has been fixed and virt-manager no longer hangs in the aforementioned scenario. (BZ#1091878)

  • The virt-manager application has been modified to return an informative error message instead of a traceback when the LC_CTYPE variable is set incorrectly. (BZ#1124387)

In addition, this update adds the following enhancements:

  • This update adds support for USB redirection to the virt-manager package. (BZ#807277)

  • This update adds support for Virtio SCSI disk to the virt-manager package. (BZ#1049781)

  • The pvpanic device is now enabled by default when creating a virtual machine with the virt-manager application. The pvpanic is a simulated device that notifies virt-manager of panic events on guest machines. (BZ#996517)

  • This update adds an option for changing the default CPU model when creating a virtual machine (VM) with the virt-manager application. The VM CPU model can now be set to be as close as possible to the host CPU model. (BZ#1046583)

Users of virt-manager are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs and add these enhancements.

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/site/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 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-0.9.0-28.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • virt-manager-debuginfo-0.9.0-28.el6.s390x.rpm
  • virt-manager-debuginfo-0.9.0-28.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • virt-manager-0.9.0-28.el6.src.rpm
  • virt-manager-debuginfo-0.9.0-28.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • virt-manager-0.9.0-28.el6.s390x.rpm
  • virt-manager-0.9.0-28.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • virt-manager-debuginfo-0.9.0-28.el6.i686.rpm
  • virt-manager-0.9.0-28.el6.i686.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

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References

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Additional information