Issued:

2011-05-19

Updated:

2011-05-19

RHEA-2011:0604 - new package: virt-what

Synopsis

new package: virt-what

Type/Severity

Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

A new virt-what package is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The virt-what tool is used to detect whether the operating system is running inside a virtual machine.

This enhancement update adds a new virt-what package to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The virt-what utility enables programs to detect if they are running in a virtual machine, as well as details about the type of hypervisor. (BZ#627886)

All users requiring virt-what should install this newly-released package, which adds this enhancement.

Solution

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

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at This content is not included.https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• virt-what-debuginfo-1.3-4.4.el6.s390x.rpm
• virt-what-debuginfo-1.3-4.4.el6.i686.rpm
• virt-what-debuginfo-1.3-4.4.el6.x86_64.rpm
• virt-what-1.3-4.4.el6.ppc64.rpm
• virt-what-1.3-4.4.el6.src.rpm
• virt-what-debuginfo-1.3-4.4.el6.ppc64.rpm
• virt-what-1.3-4.4.el6.x86_64.rpm
• virt-what-1.3-4.4.el6.s390x.rpm
• virt-what-1.3-4.4.el6.i686.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 670272
• This content is not included.BZ - 670530
• This content is not included.BZ - 671126
• This content is not included.BZ - 671132
• This content is not included.BZ - 672285

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
• Offline Security Data data is available for integration with other systems. See Offline Security Data API to get started.