Issued:

2013-11-20

Updated:

2013-11-20

RHEA-2013:1715 - virt-who enhancement update

Synopsis

virt-who enhancement update

Type/Severity

Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

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

Description

The virt-who packages provide an agent that collects information about virtual guests present in the system and reports them to the Red Hat Subscription Manager tool.

This update adds the following enhancements:

• With this update, support for the VMware ESXi hosts has been added to the virt-who package (BZ#923757)

• This update adds support for sending information from the virt-who agent to Red Hat Satellite 5. (BZ#1001416)

• With this update, the virt-who package has been modified to support listing of VMware ESX virtual guest with more than 100 results. (BZ#1002058)

Users of virt-who 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/site/articles/11258

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• virt-who-0.8-9.el6.src.rpm
• virt-who-0.8-9.el6.noarch.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 1001416
• This content is not included.BZ - 1002058

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information

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