Issued:
2015-11-19
Updated:
2015-11-19

RHBA-2015:2423 - libguestfs-winsupport bug fix and enhancement update


Synopsis

libguestfs-winsupport bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated libguests-winsupport package that fixes several bugs and adds various enhancements is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Description

The libguestfs-winsupport package adds support for Windows guests to libguestfs, a set of tools and libraries allowing users to access and modify virtual machine (VM) disk images.

The libguests-winsupport packages have been upgraded to upstream version 7.2, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. (BZ#1240277)

This update also fixes the following bug:

  • Due to conflicting files, it was previously not possible to install libguestfs-winsupport together with the ntfs-3g package. With this update, libguestfs-winsupport has been modified not to contain the conflicting files. As a result, libguestfs-winsupport and ntfs-3g can be installed together as expected. (BZ#1190501)

In addition, this update adds the following enhancement:

  • With this update, libguests-winsupport supports the 64-bit ARM architecture, which allows libguestfs to support Windows images on NTFS file systems. (BZ#1221583)

Users of libguests-winsupport are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes these bugs and adds these enhancements.

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 x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions7.7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions7.6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions7.4x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions7.3x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support7.7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support7.6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support7.5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support7.4x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support7.3x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS7.7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS7.6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS7.3x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS7.7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS7.6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS7.4x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS7.3x86_64

Updated Packages

  • libguestfs-winsupport-7.2-1.el7.aarch64.rpm
  • libguestfs-winsupport-7.2-1.el7.src.rpm
  • libguestfs-winsupport-7.2-1.el7.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References


Additional information