Issued:
2018-08-16
Updated:
2018-08-16

RHEA-2018:2460 - qemu-guest-agent enhancement update

Synopsis

qemu-guest-agent enhancement update

Type/Severity

Product Enhancement Advisory None

Topic

Updated qemu-guest-agent packages that add one enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Description

The QEMU Guest Agent provides access to a system-level agent via standard QEMU Machine Protocol (QMP) commands.

This update adds the following enhancement:

  • To maintain qemu-guest-agents compatibility with the latest version of VDSM, a number of features have been backported from the most recent upstream version. These include the addition of qemu-get-host-name, qemu-get-users, qemu-get-osinfo, and qemu-get-timezone commands, as well as detection for the utmpx.h header configuration. (BZ#1598210)

Users of qemu-guest-agent 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.

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 - 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 Scientific Computing7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian7ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support7.7ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support7.6ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support7.5ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian7ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support7.7ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support7.6ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support7.5ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power 97ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 647aarch64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions7.7ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions7.6ppc64le
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 - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian7ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, big endian7ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS7.7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS7.6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node7.7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node7.6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node7.5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop7x86_64

Updated Packages

  • qemu-guest-agent-debuginfo-2.8.0-2.el7_5.1.aarch64.rpm
  • qemu-guest-agent-debuginfo-2.8.0-2.el7_5.1.ppc64.rpm
  • qemu-guest-agent-2.8.0-2.el7_5.1.x86_64.rpm
  • qemu-guest-agent-2.8.0-2.el7_5.1.src.rpm
  • qemu-guest-agent-debuginfo-2.8.0-2.el7_5.1.x86_64.rpm
  • qemu-guest-agent-debuginfo-2.8.0-2.el7_5.1.ppc64le.rpm
  • qemu-guest-agent-2.8.0-2.el7_5.1.ppc64le.rpm
  • qemu-guest-agent-2.8.0-2.el7_5.1.ppc64.rpm
  • qemu-guest-agent-2.8.0-2.el7_5.1.aarch64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information