Issued:

2013-02-20

Updated:

2013-02-20

RHEA-2013:0483 - virt-what enhancement update

Synopsis

virt-what enhancement update

Type/Severity

Product Enhancement Advisory (none)

Topic

Updated virt-what packages that add one enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The virt-what packages provide a command-line tool that is used to detect whether the operating system is running inside a virtual machine.

This update adds the following enhancement:

• This enhancement adds support for the Virtage hardware partitioning system to the virt-what utility. (BZ#829427)

All users of virt-what are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which add 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 https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• virt-what-debuginfo-1.11-1.2.el6.x86_64.rpm
• virt-what-debuginfo-1.11-1.2.el6.s390x.rpm
• virt-what-1.11-1.2.el6.ppc64.rpm
• virt-what-1.11-1.2.el6.src.rpm
• virt-what-1.11-1.2.el6.x86_64.rpm
• virt-what-1.11-1.2.el6.s390x.rpm
• virt-what-debuginfo-1.11-1.2.el6.i686.rpm
• virt-what-1.11-1.2.el6.i686.rpm
• virt-what-debuginfo-1.11-1.2.el6.ppc64.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information

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