RHBA-2009:0216 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated python-virtinst package that fixes several bugs and adds various
enhancements is now available.

Description

The python-virtinst package contains virtinst, a module to help start
installations of Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Fedora inside a virtual
machine. It supports para-virtualized and fully-virtualized guests. As
well, the python-virtinst package contains a script, virt-install, which
uses virtinst in a command-line mode.

This updated package provides the following enhancements:

• Scientific linux install trees are now recognized.
• A 'best fit' numa memory allocation is provided via the --cpuset=auto

option for virt-install.

• A virt-install option '--wait' that sets a hard time limit on installs.
• Support for fetching xen kernels from SUSE trees.
• Support for installing from rawhide/Fedora 10 trees.

In addition, this updated package provides fixes for the following bugs:

• If an error occurred at the xen level and domain info could not be

fetched, virt-install would fail to run.

• virtinst indirectly required gtk via an unnecessary dependency.
• virt-install would not return a non-zero exit status on error
• No entry in virt-install's OS dictionary for Fedora 9 or Windows 2008
• Windows CD-ROM install media is not kept attached to the guest after the

first stage of the installation.

Users of python-virtinst are advised to upgrade to this updated package,
which fixes these issues and provides these enhancements.

Solution

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

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 442702 - Add Windows 2008 variant
• BZ - 448505 - python-virtinst indirectly depends on gtk2
• BZ - 448634 - Scientific Linux not recognized as a valid OS
• BZ - 449129 - RH 5.2 Xen - Cannot Install SLES 10 as Paravirtualized Guest
• BZ - 460585 - update virtinst to install f10 xen guests
• BZ - 463951 - RHEL 5.3: virt-install --hvm ignores --extra-args
• BZ - 470888 - Extra '/' added to urls can break kernel fetching
• BZ - 470891 - Fix fetching FTP urls which don't have .treeinfo available.

CVEs

(none)

References

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