Issued:
2017-08-01
Updated:
2017-08-01

RHEA-2017:2056 - new packages: OVMF

Synopsis

new packages: OVMF

Type/Severity

Product Enhancement Advisory None

Topic

New OVMF packages are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Description

OVMF (Open Virtual Machine Firmware) is a project to enable UEFI support for Virtual Machines. This package contains a sample 64-bit UEFI firmware for QEMU and KVM.

This update adds the OVMF packages to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions7.7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions7.6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions7.4x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support7.7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support7.6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support7.5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support7.4x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS7.7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS7.6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS7.7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS7.6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS7.4x86_64

Updated Packages

  • OVMF-20170228-5.gitc325e41585e3.el7.noarch.rpm
  • ovmf-20170228-5.gitc325e41585e3.el7.src.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

Additional information