Issued:: 2018-05-15
Updated:: 2018-05-15

RHEA-2018:1517 - rhv-guest-tools bug fix and enhancement update

Synopsis

rhv-guest-tools bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Product Enhancement Advisory None

Topic

Updated rhv-guest-tools packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are now available.

Description

The rhv-guest-tools-iso package contains tools and drivers that are required by supported Windows guest operating systems when installed as guests on Red Hat Virtualization.

Changes to the rhev-guest-tools component:

The guest tools ISO now includes spice-qxl-wddm-dod and the latest spice-vdagent. (BZ#1465106)
The rhev-guest-tools-iso package is now named rhv-guest-tools-iso. Also, the ISO filenames were modified to match the re-branding. (BZ#1365834)
In the current release, the Balloon service, which provides usage information, is installed and enabled in the host by default, wherever the Balloon driver is installed. (BZ#1500579)

Solution

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

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

https://access.redhat.com/articles/2974891

Affected Products

Product	Version	Arch
Red Hat Virtualization Manager	4.2	x86_64

Updated Packages

rhv-guest-tools-iso-4.2-5.el7ev.noarch.rpm
rhv-guest-tools-iso-4.2-5.el7ev.src.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information

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