Issued:
2015-07-22
Updated:
2015-07-22

RHBA-2015:1387 - perl-Sys-Virt bug fix update

Synopsis

perl-Sys-Virt bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated perl-Sys-Virt packages that fix two bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The Sys::Virt module provides a Perl XS binding to the libvirt virtual machine management APIs. This allows machines running within arbitrary virtualization containers to be managed with a consistent API.

This update fixes the following bugs:

  • Previously, using the libvirt-tck utility to display virtual CPU (VCPU) information only printed a part of the expected diagnostics. With this update, the get_vcpu_info() function handles VCPU flags properly, and libvirt-tck displays the full extent of the expected information. (BZ#905836)

  • Prior to this update, using the libvirt-tck utility to find the parent device of a node device with no parent incorrectly returned a "libvirt error code: 0" error message. Now, it is valid for the virNodeDeviceGetParent() function to return NULL if the parent device is nonexistent, and the error message is no longer displayed. (BZ#908274)

Users of perl-Sys-Virt are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs.

Solution

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

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/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

  • perl-Sys-Virt-0.10.2-6.el6.src.rpm
  • perl-Sys-Virt-0.10.2-6.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • perl-Sys-Virt-debuginfo-0.10.2-6.el6.i686.rpm
  • perl-Sys-Virt-debuginfo-0.10.2-6.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • perl-Sys-Virt-debuginfo-0.10.2-6.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • perl-Sys-Virt-0.10.2-6.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • perl-Sys-Virt-debuginfo-0.10.2-6.el6.s390x.rpm
  • perl-Sys-Virt-0.10.2-6.el6.i686.rpm
  • perl-Sys-Virt-0.10.2-6.el6.s390x.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information