Issued:
2010-12-01
Updated:
2010-12-01

RHEA-2010:0932 - spice-client enhancement update

Synopsis

spice-client enhancement update

Type/Severity

Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

An enhanced spice-client package is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

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. The spice-client package provides the client side of the SPICE protocol.

This update adds the following new feature:

  • This update rebases spice-client to the 0.6.3 version. It is compatible with future spice protocol changes, it adds copy and paste support between guest and client (when used together with an updated agent), and supports fullscreen mode under window-managers other then the default Gnome window manager metacity (especially compiz and kde are now also supported). (#BZ644840)

All users requiring spice-client are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which adds this enhancement.

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.http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/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-client-0.6.3-2.el6_0.5.src.rpm
  • spice-client-debuginfo-0.6.3-2.el6_0.5.x86_64.rpm
  • spice-client-0.6.3-2.el6_0.5.x86_64.rpm
  • spice-client-0.6.3-2.el6_0.5.i686.rpm
  • spice-client-debuginfo-0.6.3-2.el6_0.5.i686.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

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Additional information