RHBA-2010:0294 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated xen packages that fix several bugs and add enhancements are now
available.

Description

The xen packages contain administration tools and the xend service for
managing the kernel-xen kernel for virtualization on Red Hat Enterprise
Linux.

These updated packages include numerous bug fixes for and enhancements to
the xen packages. Space precludes documenting each of these changes in
this advisory and users are directed to the xen chapter in the Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 5.5 Technical Notes:

http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.5/html/Technica l_Notes/xen.html

All Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 users are advised to install these updated
packages, which fix the bugs and add the enhancements noted in the Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 5.5 Technical Notes. The system must be rebooted for this
update to take effect.

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/docs/DOC-11259

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
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 251666 - Service xendomains output is confusing and ugly
• BZ - 453042 - RFE: [CRM#1806336] Add 'default-vcpus' / 'max-vcpus' style options to Xen
• BZ - 480317 - guest reports repeatedly ATA error
• BZ - 499453 - add manufacturer and product name info to guest SMBIOS
• BZ - 504910 - Command "virsh save <domain> <file>" hang when trying to save a paused domain on xen
• BZ - 513211 - save/restore will reset cpu weight for the domain
• BZ - 513604 - Domain goes missing from xm list when rebooted
• BZ - 514025 - 'xm pci-list' fails on PV guest
• BZ - 514448 - [RHEL5.4 Xen]: Running "xm pci-list-assignable-devices" before modprobing pciback leads to error
• BZ - 515757 - Salvage bug fixes from reverted xen-qemu-aio-scsi.patch
• BZ - 517049 - Implement support in xen domain builder for bzImage lzma and bzip2 compression
• BZ - 518124 - Add grub.conf password protection support to pygrub
• BZ - 521346 - PCI-Paththrough with PCI-Card does not work anymore with RHEL5.4
• BZ - 521799 - rename-restart behavior is broken
• BZ - 522850 - Unable to live-migrate two domUs at the same time
• BZ - 523819 - Block assignment of devices below non-ACS switch
• BZ - 529880 - xm-create incorrectly states a vm is in use, when it isn't
• BZ - 542756 - Backporting MSI-X mask bit acceleration
• BZ - 557446 - Migration not working on some machines after xen-3.0.3-95.el5 disable paused domain save patch

CVEs

(none)

References

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