Issued:
2013-02-20
Updated:
2013-02-20

RHEA-2013:0311 - spice-vdagent enhancement update


Synopsis

spice-vdagent enhancement update

Type/Severity

Product Enhancement Advisory (none)

Topic

Updated spice-vdagent packages that add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The spice-vdagent packages provide a SPICE agent for Linux guests.

The spice-vdagent packages have been upgraded to upstream version 0.12.0, which provides a number of enhancements over the previous version. (BZ#842355)

This update adds the following enhancements:

  • The spice-vdagent agent now uses the syslog standard for logging. Syslog provides previously missing information on time stamps and severity marks of the logged events. (BZ#747894)

  • With this update, support for dynamic multiple monitors and arbitrary window resolution has been added to the spice-vdagent agent. (BZ#842298)

All users of spice-vdagent are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which 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/knowledge/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
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-vdagent-debuginfo-0.12.0-4.el6.i686.rpm
  • spice-vdagent-0.12.0-4.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • spice-vdagent-debuginfo-0.12.0-4.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • spice-vdagent-0.12.0-4.el6.i686.rpm
  • spice-vdagent-0.12.0-4.el6.src.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)


Additional information